I loved this film! I have seen Spirited Away a million times, and it is my favorite movie however I had not seen any of his other films. I think that film is often viewed as entertainment, however, Princess Mononoke does an outstanding job at being entertaining, as well as having an agenda and lessons throughout the storyline. The artwork in the movies is spectacular, and the animals were creepy and scary is the most perfect ways. I especially loved the scenes with the demons because the artwork was so free flowing and sharp looking, I’d like to start watching more anime honestly. The film ability to show multiple viewpoints is one aspect I found important. The characters are not angled in ways that the audience is made dislike or hate them, rather they are portrayed as having emotions and needs. The audience is able to empathize with both the humans trying to survive and the forest and animals trying to survive. In the film Spirited Away, this not-so-villain trope is also followed, with the witch lady that runs the bathe house. She kidnapped and uses people for labor, as she owns their souls yet in the movies, the audience is not made to hate her, and in addition, many scenes show her soft sides. I think that in politic today, we paint extreme polarized views, and people are demonized and hated. It is important to have films such as this one, and Spirited Away, to help remind audiences that there are many sides to a story, and people have different necessities. I did like that the film did not suggest that the humans were right in their actions of destroying the Earth. With global warming heating up our earth, this film means a lot, and more people should watch it. Maybe they’d start believing in global warming. Humans have been ripping the earth apart, and killing off so many species of plants, insect, and animals, and we need to stop or slow down before we create an inhabitable world. Recently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been speaking to the Democratic efforts for the Green New Deal, an effort to reduce green-house emission before we reach the point of no return. I think if more people were to hold large companies accountable, we could stop global warming. Large companies, and only a handful of them, run our country and pollute our earth. If people were to stop wasting time on person to person green efforts and we focused them in to a massive protest to stop big companies, we could save our earth. I am not a fan of the plastic bag ban nor plastic straw bans. Plastic bans are not saving our earth, and are ableist as well as create barrier for the poor. The U.S. straw pollution is like less than a few percentages of the world’s plastic pollution. What straw bans to achieve is make it so that people who need straws to each in public to be pushed out. The argument of paper and metal straws is posed, but realistically, plastic the safest and most sanitary option for disabled folks that need them. Metal straws pose the threat of burning the person and paper straws are not reliable, plastic straws with a bending edge are the most disability friendly straws. As for plastic bags, people need bags to carry their groceries in. If you don’t have a place to live, paper bags are a burden, not to mention that they always rip-out unless double bagged. Plastic bags do not cause enough pollution to be banned. We should be banning the creating of plastics that pollute our earth by companies and their factories, not ban people from buying already made items. Otherwise, those items will just end up in landfill without ever having been used or having a purpose. Although it is not a large amount of waste, logically it is more wasteful to ban already made products.

The best scene was the one where she sucks up the wolf blood and spits it out dramatically. Often female characters are weak and boring, where her character first scene is her in a fight, and the second being this scene with the blood. The film had many strong female characters and did so without being cheesy about it. Rather, real equality rather than gender exploitation.