Sunday, February 19, 2012

Princess Mononoke


     We all know that James Cameron's Avatar story is basically a lot of other storyline we have heard so much about, if that the case than this movie is probably one of them that was fitted into the story. Princess Mononoke is one of Hayao Miyazaki best work, both on a scale of animation and story work. For the animation portion of the movie is breathtaking, for example when you would look at a  character in a normal animation film you would just see the shape of it and some details. But when Miyazaki does it then you would see every detail making almost life like.
     As for the story portion of the movie it is also incredible. It take place in feudal Japan era, and it mostly about a man who is traveling to find 'eyes unclouded by hate' he travels across the land until he finally reaches a mining town. When he reaches there he find out that the leader of the town is destroying the forest so that they could reach the iron materials. But in order to do that they would have to kill the spirit of the forest and the animals god that protect it. But the man refuse to help and tries to find peace between the to warring groups. But when he goes into the forest, that hasn't been taken down yet, to see if the creatures of the forest will want to make peace with the humans. but there hatred for them blinds them to ignore the peace and continues to kill the humans that enter or destroy the trees of their forest.
     This story is interesting because it is one of Miyazaki films that talks about green peace but they don't foam it in. Also it show the human nature in this film and what it is sometimes about being human. In most storyline there is a battle of white and black, in this movie everything is grey and you would have to use your own judgment on what is right and what is wrong.
     For most japanese animation media they don't have the best hollywood actors, but in Miyazaki films they have all the famous actor in it and even some of oscar winning ones. This shows how powerful his movies are and that most actors would want to be a part of them. In conclusion if you want to see a movie that has good animation and story line than this is your movie to see.

2 comments:

  1. This is a good review. I would reread and tighten the writing

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  2. You immediately compare it to James Cameron's Avatar, which is cool, but you have to keep in mind that this film was made over a decade before Avatar. Perhaps if you establish a timeframe, it would help that argument even more.
    Be careful....you have a lot of typos and grammar issues scattered around.

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