It seems fitting that Mononoke was the movie that awakened a more general awareness of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli in the West. And as much as I detest hyperbole, it only seems proper to call Princess Mononoke one of the greatest films of any kind, animated or otherwise. Greatness is large, it contains multitudes, in this case both beauty and truth. It seems downright counterintuitive that this sad and realistic wisdom has been expressed in the form of an animated adventure of great spectacle and joyous vision, but there you are. Rather, it's that good and evil nestle comfortably within all of us and any of us, and that no one of us ever imagines himself as a blight upon the world. If Princess Mononoke is a story about good versus evil - and maybe all great stories have to be about that in some way - it's not about it in the limited sense that some over here are good and some over there are evil.
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