My first and biggest thought is there's a lot of ppl saying "They just showed it to the wrong guy" but Miyazaki loves to work w grotesques https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/807141424030486530 …
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Spirited Away for instance is absolutely filled with "creepy" character designs and "monster" antagonists
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But the arc of the story is that every "monster" - the spider dude, the "stink god", the No-Face, Yubaba and her giant baby - is a person
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It's not as simple as them all getting "redemption" - some bad people are just all bad people - but they all have a subjective POV
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They all have desires, emotions, an agenda, they all are capable of pleasure and pain
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This otoh is a *true* monster - it looks human but has literally nothing human about it even on the meta level, is generated by an algorithm
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It's deeply anathema to Miyazaki's aesthetic, his ethos of storytelling, hell, his morals
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It's the ethos of the zombie movie - they LOOK human but it's a lie, they're fooling you, they're just mindless automatic machines
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And the ethos of the zombie movie is that if true monsters like that exist you must put aside your empathy and shoot them in the head
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Whatever you think of that ethos it runs counter to all of Miyazaki's work
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And indeed Miyazaki is largely motivated by challenging our idea of "monsters", of our revulsion at the "inhuman"
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Because he is aware of how easy it is when we feel revulsion at the "uncanny valley" irl from the unfamiliar to believe in monsters
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