has novel ideas and ups and downs. The last scene of the film is that when the heroine returns to life on earth happily with the civilian boy and the pirate family, the big tree with a shining heart carries the heavenly world slowly rising, drifting farther and farther, and gradually disappearing. In the sky. Hisaishi Joe's background music sounded, obviously a happy ending, but with a sad tone.
saw this and suddenly understood. Hayao Miyazaki is really a clever magician. He gives the audience a happy story, but there is a deep sadness behind it. This sadness may be his own pursuit of a free mind.
The city of the sky has gone from a fortress full of all kinds of universal robots to a big tree with shining experience and lightness. This is a kind of transformation. Just like people, only by removing their own desires and greed can they find their true self.
The Sky City has not been wiped out, collapsed, or disappeared, but it still exists where we can't see it. Just like the human self, human subconsciousness, exists in a place where we can't see it, and it can only be found by removing all kinds of disguise. The heroine of
finally achieves a happy ending with her lover, just like a person matures under various modifications such as social norms and morals, but also becomes secular and loses a free heart. This may be the cause of grief.
Hayao Miyazaki hid such disappointment behind this happy story, perhaps also pinned his little hope, perhaps it is his memorial to the lost self.
