Friday, November 03, 2006

Princess Mononoke - The truth of the valley











Ah Hah! Hello friends, today I saw the movie named Princess Mononoke. This movie is produced in 1997 by Studio Ghibli which is established by an illustrious man named Hayao Miyasaki.If you know Waltz Disney of the west you will know this man who is famed to be Waltz Disney of Asia. I like all of the movie which is produced by this studio so, I think I will try to criticize the movie by myself and this is the first movie which will be criticized via my feeling when I see it come to an end..... Princess Mononoke.

Brief story- A kind warrior prince of a destroyed clan named Ashitaka journeys from his homeland to stop the war during a human and an animal. He gets the curse from a demon that assault his village, then, he must find the way to cure this curse. During the journey he finds himself among in the war. He finds San who is a bitter princess of the beasts who fights for her forest. San is a human but when she was young, she was nurtured by a goddess of wolf named Moro. When she grow up she thinks she is not like a normal human. She hates lady Eboshi who is a governer of the irontown because Eboshi destroys her beloved forest for civilizes her own town. However, if the town has the governer, the valley has the ancient spirit of the valley too. The valley spirit named Shishigami or Shishi who is the god of life. He has the ability to give and take life away. Lady Eboshi wants to kill Shishi because if Shishi is dead she will destroy the forest easily. Beside the spirit of the valley and a goddess of an animal, the forest also has a small fairy named Kodama who live in this valley, helping people that lost his/her way. Can Ashitaka and San save our home planet or not? See by your eyes unclouded in Hayao Miyasaki's Princess Mononoke.



Trailer ^

Criticism- The main subject of the whole story is related between living of all lifes and the standing point of two sides that can separate into two mains side. One side is the group that live in the forest. They believe that the environment, such as forest, valley is the life of every living things and the environment have the highest leader or called "spirit of the valley" so, he has the group of a goddess animals that always protect him. Another group live in the irontown. They believe that the forest give many profits to them. Everyone can use the profits as one wishes.
When their belief are contradicting it becomes to two sides of a coin that never understand each other forever. If viewing by the human being's eyes you can see that human must fight for revenge or destroy their frightening but if you view by the forest's eye you can see the environment must also fight for protect their tribe and their precious forest too. But, in fact, the most horror thing is not the human or the environment because the most horror thing is the passion in their heart that can't go away and show this passion into many forms, such as anger, rancour and something else.

Summary- This is the great animation concealing many viewpoints that can teach either children or even adult. It's a good animation and a worth movie. If you have a chance to see it you "must" see it.

story 8/10
picture 7/10
amusement 9/10
worth 10/10
overall 8.5/10 give the score by myself : D

1 comment:

Kyo said...

Aha.....sorewa, ningen ga mononoke yorimo osoroshii monogatari. Sorewa, ningen no kowasa ni osoreru hanashi desu.