Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The score keeps calling to grand heroism and valour, yet Ashitaka keeps failing to truly prevent anything, he seems almost a mere observer. A nihilistic exploration of pacifism? Almost as if Miyazaki sat down with his socio-political frustration/despair and individual powerlessness and tried
through Ashitaka to throw himself into these conflicts and try to solve them whilst mantaining his morals. As if he started with some sort of frustration and confusion towards the human condition and found
himself by the…