CCS homework
Hayao Miyazaki is a famous anti-war animator. His antiwar masterpieces include Howl’s moving castle, princess Mononoke and the wind rise. Miyazaki likes to portray the cruelty of war in a love story, especially the damage to nature, and he has a unique insight into the effects of warfare on the natural environment. Miyazaki said ‘Before long, the apprehension od nature’s alterity turns into dread. Nature is no linger seen as an inert setting available for scientists to poke and probe, but rather as a threatening agency.
About the princess Mononoke , this film is a classic of Miyazaki’s anti-war works, especially on environmental protection. In the movie, because people are greedy to mine more iron, the habitat of animals in the forest has been destroyed, and at the same time, the animal sand human beings are at loggerheads. In my opinion, this film is also be the most cruel film from Miyazaki, people can see the blood and the severed body at every where. Environmentalism is a primary theme, as the characters struggle to balance human survival with the needs of the nature around them.
Takahata’s Tomb of the Fireflies has a very different narrative style than Miyazaki’s, even though Tomb of the Fireflies comes from Studio Ghibli. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote in a 2000 review that “since the earliest days, animated films have been cartoons for children and families. But these films exist within safe confines, arousing tears but not sadness. The grave of the firefly is full of emotion. Such a powerful experience forces people to rethink animation.” Grave of the Fireflies opens on the same day that Studio Ghibli releases another film, My Neighbor Totoro. ACTS of the two sisters running barefoot, in the rural road, in the home to the pipe at the foot, so beautiful scene reminiscent of childhood good life, but the manager of the fireflies in the tomb of the two brother and sister but let a person love dearly, father go to war, the mother had been killed, stay in relatives and intermittently cynicism, the sister died because of malnutrition, male leading role also lost power last live starved to death in the street. It’s clear that Ghibli is using Totoro’s beauty as a counterpoint to the brutality of war.