The Reel Rejects - PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Princess Mononoke. I am ready. Three, two, one. Oh, that was incredible. That was great. If you're listening at home on Spotify or iTunes, we just watched the magnificent Princess Monanoque for the very first time. That is amongst, if not my favorite Miyazaki now.

Starting point is 00:01:55 That was absolutely transcendent. What an experience. Yeah. It's like a theory. and surreal and beautiful at the same time. And I love how he always ends. Maybe not always. I've only seen the only other one,

Starting point is 00:02:08 the moving castle one, that there's such a lightness and a happiness and within that a lesson at the end of his movies. Yeah. There's a strong moral compass. Yeah. There's always like these fun supporting cast characters that are like whimsical but have a darkness about them.

Starting point is 00:02:27 Yeah. This one in particular had, so much like spirituality of nature which I really liked and it also didn't fully villainize anyone even the villains had a lot of humanity yeah and I really like that everything in nature was trying to survive but also it had a a fair defensiveness like everything was just trying to I have the right to do this because this and and no one was fully right or fully wrong right I agree. Even when the boars were like, we're going to give them one last battle to remember, even though they're going to be there, they'll die trying. It was to leave the thought in a human's brain of like,

Starting point is 00:03:04 well, that was the biggest battle that they would have thought. I assume in getting them to maybe not do it again. Don't go after the animals, like trying to set, I don't know, some sort of precedent. But I think at the end of it, It was showing both sides, and I like that the what's her nuts, who, the head of the Iron Town, I forget her name, the girl we didn't trust. Yeah. That she had, she had a change of heart, even though I didn't really fully expect it. Because even towards the end, she still was like, get that head and don't give it back. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:03:41 But then with her saying, we're going to build a better town, hoping that it's going to be different. there was something, I guess, about the spirit of the forest in it getting back its head and the display of it going from full death back to full life, I guess possibly change all of them in the interim, which I liked. It was a quick turn, right? I don't know exactly what Billy Bob Thornton's character or her, the leader of Irontown, learned, but I assume that they learned, don't try to take out the forest and the freaking animals to get what you desire done.

Starting point is 00:04:21 That's not how it works. I felt like Billy Bob Thornton didn't learn that because he was like, I can't fix these fools. So I feel like the lesson he learned is like a new tactic. I feel like he, in an extended scenario, would do something else stupid again, whereas I think her lesson was, I assume she's going to try to make a more cohabitable iron town because it was completely destroyed. you could rebuild with a more sustainable message. And I think that's the big lesson here is in making everyone shades of gray,

Starting point is 00:04:50 not full villain, not full hero, no one being full right or full wrong. To me, the message was we have to learn to do what no one said was possible, which is coexist. Like everyone thought coexisting was impossible and that led to their own folly. Right. So to me,

Starting point is 00:05:06 that was like cohabitating is the only way to make it work. We need to learn what that looks like. And there is no clear. lesson of like what this looks like there isn't a solution even presented at the end it's right we need to restart all we have is we're alive and and i love the if you're alive it's worth trying yeah message i love that too i also think you know when we think it now that you know there's endangered species and we take out too many forests and the trees and and things that are native to our habitat it's not going to be good for us in actually surviving on earth meaning that we have to cohabitate together

Starting point is 00:05:42 I mean, you get rid of all the bees. I mean, we know how we learned about all of that, that it's like everything works. It's the, yes, the circle of life, but everything that's in this world, finding a way to peacefully live together, I think only feeds both parties more, right? Makes them both richer in their own ways. And there's so many systems. And I really like that it had, you know, the different tribes of humanity that fought just as the boars and the wolves fought, but they all had to share territory. And as you're describing with the bees and things, like there's so many systems in our reality that fuel each thing. And this told such a beautiful story that it was able to be super heady.

Starting point is 00:06:22 But I think because of the pacing, because the animation style, because of the music, it always felt peaceful. I agree. There was this tranquility underneath this really meditative thought that really felt like an undercurrent of peace. Yeah. And it was hyperviolent. I agree. Like, especially with the bore at the end of just like, Okoto, just like, he's just. projectile vomiting blood.

Starting point is 00:06:44 Eyes, pussing blind, demon, and yet she's stuck in there. But yeah, it just seemed like there is a way, even in the darkest moments, there's a light at the end of the tunnel kind of a vibe, which we all need to remember that in real life. That's a little bit with the piece that this movie is bringing up.

The Reel Rejects - PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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