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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I'm actually thinking abt this more that the charm of Spirited Away was genuinely taking us on the journey of empathy
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A weaker movie wouldn't do that. The good guys would be cute and lovable the whole time, the monsters truly monsters
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But the first half of Spirited Away is legitimately horror - she's surrounded by the genuinely monstrous and repulsive
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Miyazaki actually ranks with all your fav horror animators when it comes to building creepy monsters when he chooses to
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But he committed to going the next step with all of them - even that creepy mega glutton baby gets a human moment
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