#boy and the heron spoilers

[nekoprankster218]

also I love how the warawara - the latest in a line of cute Ghibli creatures - look so dementedly excited as they watch a fish get gutted. it's oddly pure and innocent, despite the context? you really get the feeling these are basically (unborn) children, I feel like.

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[saltycloudgarden]

Boy and the Heron no context spoilers:

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[reactorshaft]

just… Goro Miyazaki starting his animation career with having a son kill his father, the king of a kingdom where magic is disappearing, and run away and Hayao (possibly ending) his career with a young boy refusing to take on his family’s powerful legacy over a magical world, knowing the world would die without him in favor of not abandoning his family and choosing to live contentedly in the mundane world…

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[hamable]

I’m thinking about Mahito’s great great uncle maintaining and preserving a peaceful and beautiful thing in a way that to an outside observer looks tedious and unimportant, hoping to pass the duty off to a successor but ultimately he cannot find one and dies with it.

I’m thinking about the specificity of the blocks being made and handled with care, not with malice or ill intent.

I’m thinking about Hayao Miyazaki, a bastion of beautiful 2d hand drawn animation who refuses to retire.

I’m thinking about a world where animation is so rarely made with love over profit and efficiency.

I’m thinking about how, though the old man didn’t see it, the next generation still hangs onto a piece of that beautiful, tedious thing and takes it with them because it feels important.

I’m thinking about Mahito being told he should forget, but no. He shouldn’t.

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[surprisearson]

Was anyone going to tell me that the Boy and the Heron is only the international title. The original and real title is How Do You Live?, which is the title of pre existing book that is referenced in the film. More importantly it made me stop obsessing over what makes the heron a deuteragonist so essential his bond with Mahito is crucial to the title and instead look at the themes of progressing in life and over coming grief, something I consider to be a much more moving part of the film. Deeply upset that I was working off that title which feels much blander than How Do You Live. Help

#did everyone else know this??? i avoided press or spoilers to go in #also i should make it clear mahito and the heron gave a great dynamic but i didnt feel like it was the focus of the film #the boy and the heron #the boy and the heron spoilers

[captainofwonder]

They told you to fix a world they couldn't but you realized you can't fix it with the broken, maliced soaked blocks they leave behind. So you choose to a different way, one that embraces the world and its impurities but you keep a block because to forget is to repeat.

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[toughbunnyforever]

boy and the heron haircut

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[zooophagous]

Can't stop thinking about how in the Boy and the Heron the old man went to great pains to create a world free of malice but was still unable to create a world free of suffering. So many of the beings there still had to fight and kill, not out of hatred but because the imbalanced empty world was more phantom than substance and there wasn't enough there to sustain all the life trapped in it. That suffering there is not a side effect of evil intent but a side effect of scarcity to the point where sapient beings had no choice but to consume one another. A beautiful microcosm plagued by chaos and death even as it cultivated amazing beauty and stood apart from time. Immune to age and ugliness but at what cost.

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[scolop98]

The Hilda finale was excellent, but I could not get this out of my mind while watching it

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[honeyimissjoo]

「 大きくなった　眞人君に 」 to grown-up Mahito

君たちはどう生きるか how do you live? (2023)

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[glowinthedark-starstickers]

No Context, "The Boy and the Heron" spoilers

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[memehex]

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[lastoneout]

You know I did think that tweet that was like "have you never seen a movie before? you watch it and information is revealed" was a bit of an exaggeration but legit the three people behind me last night at 'The Boy and the Heron' not only were talking to each other for the ENTIRE runtime of the film, every SINGLE time anything interesting happened AT ALL they would instantly start being like "whos that? what's with the bird guy? isn't that the old lady from before? is that his grand-uncle? oh is her power fire? is that because she died in a fire? maybe she's not dead? oh is the world going to disappear? what's with the delivery room? why are they stacking blocks? is the tower from space?" and it took literally ALL of my fucking self-control to not turn around and ask them if they are aware of how movies work.

#this is actually just me being a petty bitch but when you are my age it is very rare to get to see a NEW studio ghibli movie IN THEATERS #and I would prefer to not do it with a goddamn greek chorus behind me #the boy and the heron spoilers #spoilers

[bluecoffeebeanz]

mahito doodles from the boy and the heron 🦜

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[hamable]

I do want to talk quick about the pelicans in The Boy and The Heron. While in the theater, I kept my mind open to symbols and metaphors that could slide into a larger narrative about war and grief, and these fit pretty well. The pelicans can no longer find fish to eat and are recruited and told to eat the Warawara. They don’t want to, and they didn’t know that’s what they’d be eating until they got there. There’s nothing else to eat. Their children are growing up different, they hardly know how to fly anymore.

It reminder me of soldiers drafted for war and sent to defeat whoever they’re pointed towards bc they have no choice. I’m glad Mahito buries the Pelican properly.

I looked up what the pelican symbolizes in Japan, and the first result says they represent parents who sacrifice themselves for their children. Sounds about right.

I think this connects largely to Mahito’s shifting perspective on the war and the people who fight it. He loses his mother to a fire caused by an air raid. She dies in a hospital, filled with children and other patients. I wonder if he possibly resents his father throughout the movie, because he builds aircraft, which will inevitably be used for more destruction (just like Miyazaki and his father). And then the pelicans say they have no choice and fear for the future their children will grow in and he starts redirecting his anger away from his father and heal?

Idk, I’ve only seen the movie once, and this is based off my 2+ day old memory. What do other people think?

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[daneesoro]

🏵 rkgk

#originally meant to go with the other post to hide the spoiler but the vibes are so different from this format #the boy and the heron #spent sm time trying to remember how this scn really looked #cause theres absolutely NO screencaps online to reference #sad but also fair #dani art #ghibli #boy and the heron fanart #tw blood