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Ch. 2 takes on Hayao Miyazaki's movies. "I like them," Murase says, "I really really do, it's just there's one fly in the ointment..."
And it's this: his heroines are all too wholesome. They pass from innocent girls who have no concept of sex and sexuality to being mothers and grandmothers without any sense of darkness, desire, sexiness to come in the middle of it. Murase says, real girls are not like this. It's sort of utopian to imagine these worlds that have so few complications of sex and romance, but it's willfully naive and profoundly unhelpful to girls living in the real world.
This does have a little bit of truth in it; it's probably why, although I like Nausicaa as a movie, I think Nausicaa herself is not as real a girl as some of the younger girls in Miyazaki movies, like Chihiro and Kiki and Mei and Satsuki. And if all movies were Miyazaki movies there would be a huge gaping hole of the kind Murase describes. But while Murase may not have been able to identify with that kind of wholesomeness, I was. Girls are pushed to grow up fast enough as it is; as a teenager it meant something to me, having that world open where curiosity and hard work and the natural world meant something and you really didn't have to worry too much about the rest of it.
It's better than "The O.C.," anyway.
Ch. 2 takes on Hayao Miyazaki's movies. "I like them," Murase says, "I really really do, it's just there's one fly in the ointment..."
And it's this: his heroines are all too wholesome. They pass from innocent girls who have no concept of sex and sexuality to being mothers and grandmothers without any sense of darkness, desire, sexiness to come in the middle of it. Murase says, real girls are not like this. It's sort of utopian to imagine these worlds that have so few complications of sex and romance, but it's willfully naive and profoundly unhelpful to girls living in the real world.
This does have a little bit of truth in it; it's probably why, although I like Nausicaa as a movie, I think Nausicaa herself is not as real a girl as some of the younger girls in Miyazaki movies, like Chihiro and Kiki and Mei and Satsuki. And if all movies were Miyazaki movies there would be a huge gaping hole of the kind Murase describes. But while Murase may not have been able to identify with that kind of wholesomeness, I was. Girls are pushed to grow up fast enough as it is; as a teenager it meant something to me, having that world open where curiosity and hard work and the natural world meant something and you really didn't have to worry too much about the rest of it.
It's better than "The O.C.," anyway.