Moeko Fujii on the themes of Hayao Miyazaki’s film “The Boy and the Heron,” which won an Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Miyazaki’s films have long been a kind of collective hearth, emanating their own theory of comfort. Comfort is woven into the very texture of their worlds: the plushness of the grass, the snap of the floors, the careful detail lavished on warm, nourishing foods like ramen and porridge and eggs on toast. If there is a secret room or garden, as there often is, the space is padded with hundreds of cushions , amulets , or well-thumbed books .
The one lesson linking almost every Miyazaki film has been this: to work hard is to be a person worth caring for, a person deserving of comfort. The true fantasy of Studio Ghibli has less to do with flying castles or mystical beasts than with the idea that if outsiders are turned into insiders, into providers of comfort, they will become recipients in kind. And there is nobody more in need of comfort than this boy who smashes a rock into his head.
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