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26/4/05 22:36Castle in the Sky Laputa was a good, good movie. Well, it's Miyazaki, so that's obvious enough.
Something my professor said two years ago when I was in anime class really came into focus. He interpreted Nausicaa as a movie about premodernity saving modernity from itself, and the more I think about it the more that seems true of Miyazaki's movies in general. It's not that Miyazaki's simply an environmentalist; much like Tolkien, he has a deep appreciation of nature as an integral part of a more general ethic that values community and distrusts bureaucracy, values and distrusts technology at the same time (there's 'good' technology and 'bad' technology). Hard work and a pure heart are enough for anything really important, and fate/magic/divine intervention will take care of the rest.
Because of it, Miyazaki movies feel more wholesome than Disney to me. I'm always picking apart Disney movies for ideology. It's not even that I'm all that reactionary, and I certainly don't idealize the past in the way that Tolkien and Miyazaki seem to, but it's something that resonates with me all the same.
Something my professor said two years ago when I was in anime class really came into focus. He interpreted Nausicaa as a movie about premodernity saving modernity from itself, and the more I think about it the more that seems true of Miyazaki's movies in general. It's not that Miyazaki's simply an environmentalist; much like Tolkien, he has a deep appreciation of nature as an integral part of a more general ethic that values community and distrusts bureaucracy, values and distrusts technology at the same time (there's 'good' technology and 'bad' technology). Hard work and a pure heart are enough for anything really important, and fate/magic/divine intervention will take care of the rest.
Because of it, Miyazaki movies feel more wholesome than Disney to me. I'm always picking apart Disney movies for ideology. It's not even that I'm all that reactionary, and I certainly don't idealize the past in the way that Tolkien and Miyazaki seem to, but it's something that resonates with me all the same.