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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That's the point of his story abt his friend - ppl w serious disabilities trigger the wrong mirror neurons. They "creep ppl out"
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Ppl instinctively dehumanize PwDs, it triggers that uncomfortable sense of "this person doesn't emote as I expect, are they really emoting
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And so yes for ppl for whom that's legit a concern this gleeful look at "how can we ratchet up creep factor in fiction" is disturbing
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Just like on a subtler level the "emotionless alien villain" trope makes life hard for ppl with less visible disabilities
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