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Tea Party Crasher posted:I can definitely accept that if Miyazaki had a passionate personal message to get across, it's fine and worthwhile that he did that rather than making something that appealed to my sensibilities. Porco Rosso already exists so he's done me a hell of a solid already. I think some of your questions have answers I could get from the film, but even those felt a little too lightly sketched to have proper impact. His aunt hated him because he never accepted her. He was a living symbol that she would never be anything other than a pale substitute for her sister. Oh, her husband said he loved her, they might have a child together, but his real flesh and blood is her sister's son, the boy who refuses to accept her as a mother, even when she reached out. He, in turn, eventually accepts her because he recognizes how much the rejection hurt her, and because he's finally been able to settle things with his mother. I compared it to Minus 1 because they're both WWII era and it was the last film I saw, and Minus One was astoundingly good, but the film that felt like it was the most interesting comparison for me was Suzume. Shinkai got the whole "Next Miyazaki" rep, and lived up to it better than most (even if he did that by rejecting the Miyazaki aesthetic and making films that were distinctly his), which makes it kind of funny they both made movies this year about young people using time travel to cope with the loss of their mothers during a national tragedy, while also dealing with being raised by an aunt. Suzume, though, felt more centered, even if it took a while for the center to show. Meanwhile, there were aspects of this (like the father's role) that felt incomplete. Too focused on to be background, but not central enough to satisfy. Gotta say, Mahito is one of the least inquisitive characters I've seen in these things. As I was watching, I thought he was either really observant quick on the uptake, or really thick, and either way he was shockingly quiet about what he thought about things. Turned out to be category 1, but it still made for an unusual watch. Glad I saw it, and I think it's a good movie, but... well, I'll want more time for it to settle, but the odd structure of the film meant that a lot didn't have the impact that it could have.
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Except the babies.
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Steve Yun posted:The Nausicaa manga is wonderful and is several times longer than the movie goes into interesting places It also has a very different role for Kushana, with her taking a co-protagonist position by the end, rather than being the primary antagonist. (She even gets some beats that Anno would reference for Asuka.)
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I mean, there's been plenty of talk about things like the next Spielberg or someone taking over Zelda from Miyamoto. If you carve a big enough niche, people speculate about what happens when you get out of the game.
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