The story is highly symbolic and indicative; Hayao Miyazaki presents the understanding rebuilding via self-redemption through the story of Pasu and Sheeta, and the Laputa, city of sky. To Pasu, his father risked his life and recorded Laputa with picture. However, until his death there is still no one believes him except his son Pasu. Thus, Pasu’s self-redemption is escaping from his father’s twisted life, finding Laputa and proving to himself, as well as to his father. To Sheeta, she is the forgotten posterity of Laputa’s people. Her family has been guarding secret of Laputa for generations. When Laputa is invaded by outsiders, Sheeta has no choice but to eliminate Laputa with incantation. Self-redemption freed two children from repressed and unjust lives, the spirit of it was highly praised by Hayao Miyazaki in the movie.
Yet even more interesting is the message that hides behind the self-redemption. Miyazaki's movie is highly symbolic. The animation was created around 1983-1985, which was exactly the starting point of the Japanese bubble economy. Hayao Miyazaki began …show more content…
As an early US animation, it has too much difference with Miyazaki’s works. First the story tends to be too simple, it only talks about one simple story happened in short period of time, instead of a longer, fully, lively story suggested by Hayao Miyazaki. But it still deserves to be an interesting animation. The role of “Three Little Pigs” to the society was likely to the role of “Spirited Away”, the director tend to use a happy story to encourages people to fight back, to never lose hope to the economic crisis in 1933. To my perspective, Americans still tend to directly tell the story with simple metaphor instead of a complex one, and with less cultural context. Burt was trying to present the positive thing through the simplest way, which is to directly tell audience a simple, positive
Yet even more interesting is the message that hides behind the self-redemption. Miyazaki's movie is highly symbolic. The animation was created around 1983-1985, which was exactly the starting point of the Japanese bubble economy. Hayao Miyazaki began …show more content…
As an early US animation, it has too much difference with Miyazaki’s works. First the story tends to be too simple, it only talks about one simple story happened in short period of time, instead of a longer, fully, lively story suggested by Hayao Miyazaki. But it still deserves to be an interesting animation. The role of “Three Little Pigs” to the society was likely to the role of “Spirited Away”, the director tend to use a happy story to encourages people to fight back, to never lose hope to the economic crisis in 1933. To my perspective, Americans still tend to directly tell the story with simple metaphor instead of a complex one, and with less cultural context. Burt was trying to present the positive thing through the simplest way, which is to directly tell audience a simple, positive