Ashitaka’s curse is lifted, but his scar remains.
One of the most striking elements to the clockwork of Mononoke is how bittersweet its ending is. If you’re a fan of Mononoke, or really any of Miyazaki or Studio Ghibli’s more serious output, you can follow the logic here. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. A wonderful meeting, or a beautiful thing can exist. However, even in the middle of hatred and killings, there are things worth living for. There cannot be a happy ending to the fight between the raging gods and humans. In 63 brief words, the animator communicated the message of his film, and, frankly, the meaning of life. In honor of that, I thought this was as good a week as any to call out a single quote from his 1995 project proposal for Princess Mononoke. It took hard work, long hours, and no small amount of convincing for Miyazaki-hailed as a master of his craft even in the ’90s-to get it produced.
WHAT IS PRINCESS MONONOKE ABOUT MOVIE
I think it’s perfect for a reason.īut the movie didn’t just manifest out of the ether, either. Its action showed me at 10 years old that cartoons, like life, could too show the brutality of man. Its story gallops like a Hollywood Western. So many endless, foolish words have been written about Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke that it almost made me want to ignore its passing 20th anniversary this week.
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