Princess Mononoke
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sherryillkI just watched Princess Mononoke and I finally understand why everyone goes "!!!"
I am in a "!!!" mood right now after watching.
God, that was amazing! And it totally reminded me of why I love Studio Ghibli and Joe Hisaishi. I am so getting that soundtrack. The music, god, the music! I watched like a minute of it and I knew it was going to be amazing. It was just a little bit more bloody than I thought it would be but overall, it was just an amazing movie.
Tomorrow, I will be hitting Castle in the Sky and hoping that it will be just as good.
I'm still in amazement over this movie. The artwork reminded me a lot of the other Studio Ghibli works and even though I saw the English dub of it, it was still pretty good. I desperately want to see the original with English subs (desperately! I want to know if they kept the same music and songs and I want to know Ashitaka's voice because I am crushing on him now) but I can't find them so I guess I'm stuck.
I just can't help but get choked up thinking about it. I want to cry right now (but I'm emotional and PSMing so that might be why) at how deep the story was. It was a conflicted movie for me because generally I like neat happy endings but there was no way this story could ever be wrapped in a bow and called neat and happy.
The whole symbolism with technology and nature, and the whole man and god, just blew me away. My soul cried when I saw the humans disrespecting the gods and I ached for the humans who really have no other way of living. I really wish someone could tell me how we can all live happily and how we can be good people but I don't think there's a way...
It's times like this that I wonder about the purpose of man...We're so destructive and we're so blind and it seems as though we only do harm to the world... Maybe it's the PMS, but don't you ever get the feeling that we should all just die?
But I'm so deathly afraid of dying that it's not even funny so even if I feel that way, there's no way in hell that I would go along with it. I'm all for the clinging to life as hard as you can for as long as you can thing... Even if there's pain, I've always thought pain is an indication that you're living and thus important to experience. We must experience all the life we can!
Well, that was a weird turn that this talk of Princess Mononoke took.
Anyone, if you were living under a rock like me and haven't see Princess Mononoke, I totally recommend it! Hell, I'll totally host it for you to see it if you haven't because it's just so wonderful. I swear, it's an amazing experience so try it out if you have the chance.
I am in a "!!!" mood right now after watching.
God, that was amazing! And it totally reminded me of why I love Studio Ghibli and Joe Hisaishi. I am so getting that soundtrack. The music, god, the music! I watched like a minute of it and I knew it was going to be amazing. It was just a little bit more bloody than I thought it would be but overall, it was just an amazing movie.
Tomorrow, I will be hitting Castle in the Sky and hoping that it will be just as good.
I'm still in amazement over this movie. The artwork reminded me a lot of the other Studio Ghibli works and even though I saw the English dub of it, it was still pretty good. I desperately want to see the original with English subs (desperately! I want to know if they kept the same music and songs and I want to know Ashitaka's voice because I am crushing on him now) but I can't find them so I guess I'm stuck.
I just can't help but get choked up thinking about it. I want to cry right now (but I'm emotional and PSMing so that might be why) at how deep the story was. It was a conflicted movie for me because generally I like neat happy endings but there was no way this story could ever be wrapped in a bow and called neat and happy.
The whole symbolism with technology and nature, and the whole man and god, just blew me away. My soul cried when I saw the humans disrespecting the gods and I ached for the humans who really have no other way of living. I really wish someone could tell me how we can all live happily and how we can be good people but I don't think there's a way...
It's times like this that I wonder about the purpose of man...We're so destructive and we're so blind and it seems as though we only do harm to the world... Maybe it's the PMS, but don't you ever get the feeling that we should all just die?
But I'm so deathly afraid of dying that it's not even funny so even if I feel that way, there's no way in hell that I would go along with it. I'm all for the clinging to life as hard as you can for as long as you can thing... Even if there's pain, I've always thought pain is an indication that you're living and thus important to experience. We must experience all the life we can!
Well, that was a weird turn that this talk of Princess Mononoke took.
Anyone, if you were living under a rock like me and haven't see Princess Mononoke, I totally recommend it! Hell, I'll totally host it for you to see it if you haven't because it's just so wonderful. I swear, it's an amazing experience so try it out if you have the chance.
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on 2006-03-06 08:02 am (UTC)Man can be evil, but never forget that Nature is just as cruel, and any animal in our place would do just as badly, if not worse. We only feel evil because in our capacity to do evil, we can do just as much good, and this realization makes what we don't do look ten times worse.
When I read about somebody like Hitler or Stalin, and somebody makes a comment, "He's a monster!" I just want to say "No, he's not a monster. He's being competely, perfectly human."
We're what Nature made us. It's up to us to become better.
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on 2006-03-06 08:28 am (UTC)no subject
on 2006-03-06 11:15 pm (UTC)Princess Mononoke is really awesome..When I was young I was kind of distracted by all the blood and stuff but I watched it a few more times during high school and it always really affected me afterwards...Castle in the Sky is good too~ There's this one instrumental song in CitS and it'll get stuck in your head for SO long..I loved that song~ =) I should find it again cuz it's a gorgeous piece of music =.=;; ♥