Lo que Miyazaki nos quiso decir. Ecologismo y hermenéutica detrás de Mononoke Hime
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2014.v0i9.5967Abstract
Los desastres de Hiroshima y Nagasaki supusieron para la sociedad japonesa un cambio de estructura tanto en sus formas de pensamiento como de expresión cultural. El miedo histórico hacia Occidente, consumado con la derrota militar, la tecnificación exacerbada, y, sobre todo, una hipotética hecatombe nuclear, se erigieron en puntos clave para entender las nuevas temáticas narrativas aparecidas en el solaz nipón; géneros cinematográficos como el kaiju, el renacimiento del kaidan, o la proliferación de historias con marcada tendencia ecologista, no hacen sino atestiguar los cambios de un Japón nuevo, esencialmente diferente, por fuerza, al de la anterior era Showa.Explicar y razonar qué es el “Tercer Impacto” y utilizarlo para diseccionar La Princesa Mononoke, serán los objetivos de este artículo. Pondremos en valor nuevos conceptos como el ambientalismo mágico, analizaremos el papel del héroe, de las mujeres, o de los animales, además de establecer relaciones entre la mentalidad nipona y los hitos representativos del Maestro Hayao Miyazaki. Con ello asumiremos rasgos esenciales del Japón moderno y tradicional por medio de un film que, si bien ha sido eclipsado por la oscarizada El viaje de Chihiro, se erige en el principal exponente de una forma muy concreta de entender el Cine.
Abstract:
Hiroshima and Nahasaki disasters meant a structural change for Japanese society, not only related to ways of thinking but also respecting cultural manifestations. Historical fear towards Western society along with military defeats, massive technification, and, last but not least, a hypothetical nuclear catastrophe were basic factors to understand the rise of new narrative themes in the japanese territory. Cinematographic genres such as kaiju, the rebirth of kaidan or the proliferation of ecology-based stories are a solid testimony of this New Japan, necessarily different to the one of the previous era, Showa.
The objectives of this communication are to explain and reason what was the “Third Impact” and use this knowledge to dissection Princess Mononoke. We will come across new concepts, as magic environmentalism and analyze the role of the hero, the animals and women. Besides, we will make connections with japanese mindset and relate it to other Master Hayao Miyazaki hits. In doing so, we will take over some essential traits of modern Japan through this film, which may have been outshined by the multi-awarded Spirited Away, but still is the key sample of a very peculiar way to understand cinema.
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Tercer Impacto; Hayao Miyazaki; tecnología; ecologismo.
Keywords:
Third Impact; Hayao Miyazaki; Technology; Ecologism.Downloads
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