Princess mononoke san and ashitaka1/29/2024 ![]() After Ashitaka leaves his village to search for a treatment to remedy his affliction, I no longer cared that this was an animated feature I was on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. ![]() ![]() After about ten minutes of dwelling on the follies (and there are, in my opinion, many) of the "anime" style of art, I became enthralled with the quickly unfolding plot and the subsequently dire fate bestowed upon Ashitaka, the protagonist of the film. Upon watching Princess Mononoke, I must say I first thought it would be very difficult to look past the animation style and see it for what it was- a dynamic film directed be the highly acclaimed Hayao Miyazaki. Instead of focusing on one or two aspects of the movie I do not like and formulating a biased opinion based on my hasty and clouded notions, I can now decipher both the good and bad points of a given flick. ![]() Recently, however, I have forced myself, with great difficulty, to open my mind and look at the entire picture. A few years ago I would have tossed this film into a collection of movies I like to call the rubbish pile. ![]()
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