#myazaki

The little white forest creatures with holes in their faces

Lady Eboshi's perfect non-villany.

The way you can viscerally feel Ashitaka's fear as he braces himself for inevitable death after the forest spirit doesn't heal the demon's wound.

The fact that the women of the Iron City are able to be utterly ridiculous but also extremely competent at the same time

Ashitaka's quiet: "Don't make me kill you" when he's trying to get the forest spirit's head back from Jibo

The messages about blind hate and rivalry.

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I have this indistinct kind of thought

About Natsuko and the delivery room scene from the Boy and the Heron.

I had a lot of sympathy for her, at first, stepping into an already preexisting family, filling her sister’s shoes, which can never truly be filled because she’s gone and made perfect by her memory, her husband’s son, who doesn’t engage with her, acts coldly and pulls away when she tries to reach out, she’s displaced

But this scene

Threw me

Something about deflecting and passing on her own pain onto the next generation

Something about rejecting so she can’t be rejected

About being weak, when the adult in a situation is supposed to be strong

About the movie’s overall themes of corruption and forgiveness

About how Mahito screamed over her to come with him

I don’t know