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- Takahata Isao is making a Kaguya Hime movie!
-I am.... intrigued? But it's a weird story and it feels very alien to a modern mindset and most anime literature retellings are kind of dull and by-the-book. Also, the Kaguya Hime of my heart is the one with organ donor clones and lots of complicated love triangles.
- It's REALLY REALLY PRETTY.
- OKAY.
- It's about PERFORMATIVE FEMININITY and also AUTHENTICITY and also how well-meaning people can end up exploiting each other for their own gain.
- YAY.
I really really liked The Tale of Princess Kaguya. It reinterpreted the core of the original story a lot to make it into a movie that's more intelligible to modern audiences, I think, but in a way that doesn't totally overwrite the strangeness and oldness of the original tale.
(My one complaint is that the whole "the boy you knew when you were five is your FIRST LOVE FOREVER" thing is a little too Ghibli. Kaguya rings truer to me as a girl who's too overwhelmed by the status games and fakery at court to willingly marry somebody she's never met, than as a girl who's hung up on the guy she knew back home. But there's a lot that the movie gets right with gender performativity, and it's interesting to see a Ghibli movie whose heroine is sad and weird and not spunky.)
-I am.... intrigued? But it's a weird story and it feels very alien to a modern mindset and most anime literature retellings are kind of dull and by-the-book. Also, the Kaguya Hime of my heart is the one with organ donor clones and lots of complicated love triangles.
- It's REALLY REALLY PRETTY.
- OKAY.
- It's about PERFORMATIVE FEMININITY and also AUTHENTICITY and also how well-meaning people can end up exploiting each other for their own gain.
- YAY.
I really really liked The Tale of Princess Kaguya. It reinterpreted the core of the original story a lot to make it into a movie that's more intelligible to modern audiences, I think, but in a way that doesn't totally overwrite the strangeness and oldness of the original tale.
(My one complaint is that the whole "the boy you knew when you were five is your FIRST LOVE FOREVER" thing is a little too Ghibli. Kaguya rings truer to me as a girl who's too overwhelmed by the status games and fakery at court to willingly marry somebody she's never met, than as a girl who's hung up on the guy she knew back home. But there's a lot that the movie gets right with gender performativity, and it's interesting to see a Ghibli movie whose heroine is sad and weird and not spunky.)