“Princess Mononoke” Review

Princess Mononoke: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. With Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, John DiMaggio. While seeking to cure himself of a curse, young warrior Ashitaka stumbles into a conflict between the people of Iron Town and Princess Mononoke, a girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of her home.

I’m still on my journey to watch all the Studio Ghibli movies in order, but this one was at my local theater and was supposed to be a great showing, but it was in the crummy IMAX seats that kill my back after 30 minutes. The film itself was fantastic and in line with what i would expect from the creators, but I wasn’t especially happy with the ending. It was much less moralistic and more vague about what the eventual consequences of the death of so many forest gods would present. Also, it was weirdly nice to see so many grey areas in the characters motivations, even the ‘bad guys” still had believable and understandable reasons for why they were doing what they set out to accomplish.

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