Offering respite from an adult perspective without denying it, Studio Ghibli films often invite viewers into exalted states of innocence.
A sense of warring duality is everywhere in Princess Mononoke: selfishness and altruism, nature and humanity, life and death.
At different forked roads in my 27 years, I saw Miyazaki’s women and thought, I can? And each, in her distinct way, said Yes.
