Crespo, Spirited Away

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Spirited Away is an awesome, fascinating and moving story, which includes awesome graphics, art style and plot.

Spirited Away is about a young girl named, Chihiro, who finds herself trapped in the spirit world after they get lost trying to find their new house and wind up passing a red house. This passing of the house, caused Chihiro’s parents to enter the spirit world and turn into pigs, because they began eating food that wasn’t theirs. Chihiro lefts alone in the spirit world, is helped by Haku, who is a water spirit, and is told to get a job in the bathhouse to be able to survive. She then signs a contract with the witch, who rules the bathhouse, Yubaba, and signs away her name.

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During the plot of the movie, which is for Chihiro to leave the bathhouse and save the parents, there are many themes shown: like compassion, bravery, friendship, loyalty, and personality growth.

Compassion is shown when the lets no-face enter the bathhouse, when she lets him go with her to Zenibas, Yubaba's twin sister, home to solve a problem created by Haku. And when she takes care of Haku and gives him the   seed, given to her by the river spirit, to cure him.

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Bravery is shown when Haku insists on getting a job in the bathhouse, when she goes and save Haku who is about to die from a curse. Also when she goes on the adventure of returning something Haku stole from Zeniba and when she confronts no-face, who has become bigger and evil.

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Loyalty is shown the way she trusts Haku and is always by his side. She always believes in him and does whatever he says. For example, when Chihiro she eats the pill in the beginning, or when she insists on getting a job etc.

Finally personality growth is shown thorough the entire movie little by little. One example of this is when she returns the stolen object to its rightful owner and apologizes on behalf of the one who stole it. Also when we see her work, we notice that she becomes more responsible and mature, and caring over not only her problems, but also the problems of others.

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Crespo, Nausicaa

Nausicaa, is about a young girl who lives in a peaceful place called, Valley of the Wind. In this valley there is no pollution in the air, technology is not the primary thing, and even though they don’t like the bugs, who invaded most of the planet, they respect them and leave them alone.

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The movie is mostly about how a powerful empire tries to take over the world and destroy the bugs, which inhabit it. But in the end Mother Nature wins and the empire looses.

Nausicaa and San, are very similar in many aspects. Some of these aspects are that they want to protect nature and all living things. They understand nature and realize that the humans are the real problem not nature. For example in Nausicaa, Nausicaa realizes, while experimenting in a secret laboratory, that the plants are not really toxic, that it’s the soil that’s toxic and because of this the plants release poison into the air. This is because humans have polluted the earth with their technology and don’t to anything about it.

Another similar aspect is that they never give up, they fight with the humans, but in the end succeed. 

One thing they don’t have in common though, is how they approach the problems. Nausicaa prefers peace and non-conflict, although at the end she gets a little violent. The scenes that show this is when Nausicaa gets in front of the bugs to save her people, and dies. Another scene in the movie, that shows how Nausicaa approaches her problems, is when they crash in the forest and instead of killing the bugs she talks to them and explains herself to them.

San, in Princess Mononoke, is all about solving her problems by killing the humans, especially, Lady Aboshi. This is shown in many scenes in the movie, but one of them is when she enters the village and attacks lady Aboshi with a knife to kill her.

In conclusion both girls show how nature should be protected and preserved at all costs, and that also nature will reward you and thank you for it at some point in your life. The movies also show us that nature is necessary for not just animals but humans. And that it’s an irreplaceable source of food, water, medicine, etc.

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This picture is when Nausicaa died, and the bugs everyone hated in her village saved her life.