God – man+ woman
From the scene when San and
Ishitaka were lifting and holding the God of nature’s head to return, and when
the God takes their offer, his head I thought the scene describes the unity of
a man and a woman who can become one to overcome problems. Back in the past,
both east and west societies, men have dominated in and out of their house.
Despite of the background history of the film which was medieval era when
people think women should stay at home raise children and do housework while
men go out and make money, this animation has defamiliarized and changed image
of Japanese traditional female to active. In this film, women were working in
ironwork, commanding men what to do and shooting rifles and even kill the God. However
what I concern about this defamiliarzation is people who do not know Japanese
culture would misunderstand traditional Japanese women roles in that time.
People would think Japan had modernized women's social position as this film is
not based on an actual historical event.
Human vs human
The history of human tells us,
there were many wars and there are still. The force of Lady Eboshi and the emperor’s
forces had battles for the ironwork.
Disaster + nature vs human +
greed
As a result of destroying
environment, people are having a hard time because of natural disasters. for
instance, Japan was hit by a number of devastating natural disasters in recent
year. In the film, a guy from emperor's side wearing strange but traditional
wooden shoes were trying to take the head of the god of nature to have the
power of god to develop production of the country by cutting and destroying
forests.
Destroy vs new life
it is like a cycle that humans
destroy the nature to develop and natural disaster occur and it ruins what
human have established. Naturally no matter how human's have high technology,
men surrendered to the nature
There are many
underlying thematics of Princess Mononoke, but as a viewer or audience we have
different interpretations of what we believe to be the themes in this anime.
This film has many female characters especially those women who are under the
care of Lady Eboshi. We clearly see that the women who are always carrying
riffles are in charge and most likely have the authority figure within
relationship status. There is also the greed of materialism where the humans
who want the power from the gods of nature almost end human race itself.
