I will try not to annoy, provoke, or otherwise bug you; and I'll leave you alone.
I apologize for making that joke, and for making it in such a way that is was reasonable to assume I was being serious (from now on, I will make it more clear).
^^ This thread is for talking about stuff on Tumblr. This is not the thread for posting things that will do nothing but inflame and depress the general population of the site that happen to be found on Tumblr.
If you find something on Tumblr that you think will inspire a civil but spirited and meaningful discussion, feel free to post it here. If you see something on Tumblr that you find funny or intellectually stimulating or fills you with joy, go right ahead. But please resist the temptation to bring forth tales of darkness and disgrace to which we have nothing to respond but a slow, sad shake of the head.
I distinctly remember you guys posting this image of people telling some guy to commit suicide because he wanted to take a walk. What sort of meaningful discussion would that breed?
^^^ We have been trying to move away from talking about crap like that. It's not fun and it just makes everyone here angry and upset without doing any good.
yeeeeaaaaaah, i ain't gonna bother with anybody who claims from the outset to be formostly logical, as that p much guarantees that they are full of themselves and don't know what they are talking about 98% of the time.
Yeah, I didn't want to say it earlier, but singling out "feminists" as harassing this man set off alarm bells for me. If your intention is to bring attention to the mistreatment of a victim, muddying the waters with ideological flim-flam is the worst thing that you can do.
Anyway, I'm done with this subject. Could we please move on?
Unpopular Opinion: I kind of like the 'Spirited Away has some analogies to a whorehouse' theory that's been bashed on my dashboard over the last week or so.
I get that it's representative of the 'introduce dark concepts into lighthearted camp' trend that gave us 'Rugrats is Angelica's hallucination of dead babies' or 'X is a dream by Y who's in a coma'. I get it. Giving something the 'deep symbolism' treatment doesn't usually work.
But I think that the Spirited Away theory actually adds some depth in a way that fits with the story.
Given the folk-tales that the story draws on and the odd subtext in certain scenes (the floor that the radish spirit stops at with the private rooms, in particular), it is not a particularly far-fetched comparison to make. The fact that the workers in the bathhouse are explicitly stated to be homeless forest and animal spirits in the Japanese dub of the film adds to this impression while reinforcing a different metaphor entirely.
There are a lot of layers to Spirited Away. That is part of what makes it a great film.
Exactly. It works, not necessarily as a direct interpretation, but as a layer on top of all the other layers in the film. And considering that the message presented by the original post is 'people will take advantage of you if you're not careful', I think it's very in line with the 'girls need to be independent and brave on their own merit' thing that Miyazaki loves so much.
There is also the whole matter of names and identity, which is a fairly complicated and deep subject in and of itself, in addition to the more obvious environmental and coming-of-age themes and the little asides about things like greed, love, deception and power. There is a lot going on in that film.
That would all be fine if that was what said post was claiming and it was not claiming "spirited away is toast about prostitution", which is what it was.
Valid interpretations aside, it's another facet of the unhealthy "this MUST be dark and edgy" mentality.
Yeah, it's problematic to say that a movie is about one thing which is, at most, merely one interpretation of one aspect of the narrative, particularly when that mindset is involved. Miyazaki's films are not all sunshine and perpetual optimism, let alone Spirited Away, so the very premise of darkening the glass to deepen the meaning is patently absurd here.
I understand that the preservation of fun and innocence is a battle that's should be fought. It's just that it's being fought over a relatively innocuous example that got blown up by one blogger's lack of subtlety on the topic. If it was sparked by a more egregious example, like the 'Finn's in a coma' picture that showed up in the main thread, then I'd have no problem with it.
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I will try not to annoy, provoke, or otherwise bug you; and I'll leave you alone.
I apologize for making that joke, and for making it in such a way that is was reasonable to assume I was being serious (from now on, I will make it more clear).
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Discussing it is not going to be fun.
Knowing about this will not help anyone help anything.
Why.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It's all coming up 7s.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
SA goons tell themselves this, so it must be true.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Valid interpretations aside, it's another facet of the unhealthy "this MUST be dark and edgy" mentality.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead