Metaphorical Expression of Epic Narration in Animated Films:On the Ecological Criticism Strategy of Miyazaki Hayao's Princess Mononoke
Princess Mononoke is recognized as the pinnacle of Miyazaki Hayao's animated film,and it can also be regarded as a truly ecological animated film,which embodies Miyazaki Hayao's ecological humanism.On the basis of blending all kinds of mythical and realistic materials from ancient to modern times in east and west,through many strategies of visual construction,Miyazaki Hayao showed the fantastic process of realizing the compromise between human beings and gods in the self salvation journey of the Xiayi teenager in the Muromachi period of Japan with his epic grand narrative.Using animation as a means of contemporary visual"re-enchantment",Miyazaki Hayao mixed various image symbols of human civilization,realized the meta-phorical expression of various relationships between man and nature,and critically considered the eternal problem of how to achieve reconciliation between man and nature in the"anthropocene"where the real ecological problems are increasingly seri-ous.It shows a deep concern for the past and future destiny of mankind and makes a pioneering contribution to the realization of ecological criticism value of contemporary animated films.
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