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I’ve always found the motion in Miyazaki’s supernatural creatures fascinating. From the constant shivering of the soot sprites to the wriggliness of the demonic animals in Mononoke Hime, even all the creatures in the bathhouse scenes all had their own individual kinetic energy. His human characters are secondary to the magic of the universe around them.
The majority of background human characters are very simple in contrast to the details in the nature and other creatures inhabiting his films. I can vaguely recall Kiki’s face though seeing that film over a dozen times, but her cat, Gigi, I can recall with perfect clarity…
We are characters at the whims of forces beyond us. That of nature. That of the unnoticed. That, I feel is what makes his films fascinate me, the amount of detail in the motion of water around a characters’ ankle, the character them self far less detailed.
At the same time our actions directly and drastically influence the motions in the universe around us. A barrage of grenades on the wolf pack in Hime causes the monkey gods to be drawn out into the barrens, their defiance causing later troubles for those same humans involved.
Ashitaka's willingness to sacrifice himself for the sake of both sides being the only thing from stopping them both from destoying themselves.
An early omen of the current times we live in now, offshore drilling and fracking causing earthquakes, the extensive heat index rises worldwide.
What I’d give to see some Kudama right now…
~Macka
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