I don't think I've ever seen a dumber comment on KZbin

I think it was about someone being borne and molded completely by a structure of meaning cannot simply rebuild it hastly to keep it from falling. The world is different and requires different views (a new generation) in order to restructure meaning. Without that, older fantasies rely on cardiac arrest and enforce rather than inspire the new agents of the world (children) and are doomed to crumble.

Well... I can see that. Miyazaki technically is one of the forefathers of anime as we know it. And he had seen how basically the industry he helped creating is self imploding. And so he has a reason of to feel resented with the world he created. But none the less, he cares for it. Enought to choose someone else to leade his world into a New and better direction, instead of choosing someone like the Parrot King.

@@gabrielchasecanceladosinap3959 precisely!

@@BinaryDood and someone like the Parrot King could represent people like Toei, or Mappa or many other modern studios and corporations that apreciate animation more as a bussiness than an art form. That or they don't simply apreciate animation.

@@gabrielchasecanceladosinap3959 I think the Parrot King, regardless what it directly targets to represent, stands for someone born already inside the system, thus was molded by its functions. Especially those who seek power: they will treat the system as a game to be played, rigged and outrigged. That's why a bad king tends to follow a good one. The bad king merely follows the trail unknowingly why it was made such and so in the first place. One such individual, made and defined by the stern rules of society as they are but not as what they ought to be, can't build anything that will last in a world where the only constant is change.

Interesting question. I don’t have a specific answer right now but I will note that wouldn’t it have been interesting if Natsuko had her child in the spirit world? Her child would have been born outside of the temporal world and could have chosen to live in any time line he wanted to by going through a specific door. So much of this film is left up to the audience’s interpretation and I think if we were to read solely into the themes at play in that scene we could say that creation is a sacred process which should not be disrupted by human will. We know that the power stone has a will of its own and could have been responsible for bringing Natsuko into the birthing room in the first place. Perhaps the stone was securing its future by recruiting Natsuko’s child as its new ward? In that line of thinking it’s also interesting that Mahito is almost smothered by the paper in that scene. Perhaps the stone would rather have Natsuko’s child, someone birthed away from the corrupted reality of the real world, inherit the great grand uncle’s power while the great grand uncle would rather have Mahito. Who we know is symbolically the same character who carries malice and imperfections with him.

@@turtle-reviews yes, any scene should have double or triple meaning. 1. Internal lore of the movie. 2. Miyazaki life. 3. Symbolism audience could take independent of Miyazaki. You just describe (1). Now what I thought about Miyazaki life symbolism is this: his son Gorou was warned by Miyazaki's wife/ Gorou's mother not to enter animation industry. He became architect instead. When He enter Ghibli as director for Earthsea, Miyazaki opposed it. He disliked Earthsea movie. But later he give Up on Poppy Hill screenplay to Gorou, and he did better job on that one.

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That double brick vhs set is iconic!

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😮 thanks for the catch y’all. First time jitters

Love you Antti

​@@aaronfox3613 it's not often that people say they love me for pointing out a typo 😂