#boy and the heron

[sop-soap]

love the new ghibli protagonist. what a little freak (affectionate). he has NO chill. a kid shoves him at the start of the movie and he instantly tackles them and proceeds to fight his entire class. he bashed his head in with a rock and tried to walk it off. the bird in his garden was doing funny things and he instantly starts making plans to murder it. was ready to beat the shit out of that pelican. i just know if he was allowed to curse he would have called that heron a bitch ass mother fucker. mahito was NOT fucking around.

[animentality]

[foxfaer]

I'm going to be thinking about this movie for a long time.

[secretie]

warawara 🤍 insta

[sabrinaofstars]

just thinking about * h e r *.

[jablye]

The Grey Heron from recent Miyazaki's movie! I liked it a lot, especially this character, so I decided to sketch them :)

My Telegram, where you can find more of my works: t.me/jablye

[sarahshootspeople-blog]

Thinking about them ☺️

[genisflyingkites]

The boy and the heron fanart. This movie means a lot to me I saw it early thanks to my friend and guys it’s so good. I love it a lot and I think it’s a beautiful message Miyazaki has to artist and young people. He’s saying don’t try to continue legacy or be perfect or the next Miyazaki live life he felt he wasted his. Read a book, spend time with your loved ones, and make friends. Life is more than our passions and careers. Which is what I needed to hear y’all will love it

[nekoprankster218]

new trope I think The Boy and The Heron utilizes:

Refusal of the Call but with the upgrade of trying to Shoot the Messenger the whole time

[ghibli-collector]

New NHK Studio Ghibli Documentary following Hayao Miyazaki during the making of Boy and the Heron ends with a hint that Miyazaki’s next film may be a long awaited sequel to 1984’s Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

[73m0n]

Apparently the oscars haven't learned their lesson from last years oscar

[cocochoon]

watched an early screening of boy and the heron and this was all i could think about on the train ride back

[iosagol]

The Boy and the Heron, lads

*lying facedown on the sofa*

Spoilers, all the spoilers

So can we talk about the cyclical nature of life and death

The way the past and future are linked to one another and just because the past doesn't get to be the future, it doesn't mean that's bad

"In the future I am dead," Himi says, essentially. "I am not afraid. You have seen me as I want to be remembered, and I have left books for you to open and leave open, and even though I'm not going to be alive anymore, I once was, and I loved you."

The fact that Himi's little sister is no more recovered from the grief than Mahito

she's grieving too over her sister, but her sister's husband is now her husband and did she really want this to happen? and she's having this baby

It's a lot to handle because someone she loves just died and right after this she's bringing a new life into a vicious world in the middle of this war

And she has this boy now that looks like her sister

so she goes into the forest looking for that peace that isn't at home

and just she's lying in that room with those circling…. fans? Fans made of bandages(?) just spinning around her it's a cycle of hurt and patching up wounds and getting hurt again and patching up wounds until her stepson is webbed in it and she's webbed in it and both of them are so in pain and trying to patch up their wounds and it doesn't do them any good

The fact that in order to find his mom, our boy Mahito has to go into the Secondary/Underworld and he has to get a fish and he has to survive and draw water and go looking for this woman and descend into the abyss and come out again and he has to shun power

It gives Spirited Away, almost, except Chihiro had to learn to mature in the sense that she had to consider others and respect and learn manners

she has to respect others

meanwhile Mahito has to learn to forgive himself for not saving someone he loves

he has to respect himself and stop hurting himself and be open to love again

So he's just... Living, for the most part, it seems. He's gutting that fish and eating jam and butter on bread and also soup and he has to bicker with Heron and drink tea and steer a boat and observe the complexities of life and death

He's living and healing

But really, there's no balance to the Secondary/Underworld the greatuncle made because he wanted every creature to thrive within it

And if all you have is life on top of life, then creatures are going to start killing each other

The pelicans are starving because the fish can't be eaten, they turn on the waro-waro, the humans rush to protect the waro-waro, both sides are burned

happiness for one and all is competitive, it's cutthroat

The fact that coming home looking scraped isn't enough, Mahito has to slam a rock into his head

He says it's to prove he fell down, but really that's the biggest mark of human violence

And he does it to himself maybe because he's just so angry with himself for being alive and well, while his mother isn't, and he needs to level that playing field to feel better

Self-flagellation

The overboldness of the dad, how he packs all his human gear and tries to elbbow his way into the Fae and it does him no good

how he tries to solve his kid's problems by again elbowing his way in and that also does nothing

The fact that our boy Mahito realizes something is wrong with the old ladies on sight

something about them is very inhuman

when he first sees them the look on his face he knows something is up because he's meant to go into Faerie and he doesn't have the preconceptions of the adults and he has to see the signs

I ugh

Ugh it's so beautiful, all of it

[midnights-dragon]

[evadingreallife]

I love love love how the boy and the heron can have so many different readings for the same exact sequences. Its about surviving its about processing trauma its about legacy its about creation and destruction, its about this one specific old guys personal ghosts and fears and hopes but its also about war and our own lives, its about shouldering the whole world and watching it crumble to nothing its about choosing our path but also just existing and living, sons and mothers and fathers and family continuing through us and from us but also not because we're our own person and thats beautiful regardless, its about standing witness to evil and goodness and all in between and forging ahead through time and existing, and its also about the funkiest little guys ever.

[jessiesjaded]

The Boy and The Heron, 2023.