• Nikkii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        23 days ago

        This particular movie, Nausicaa, also shows the fungal forests and the giant insects within are

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        serving as restorers of nature, the former filtering out the poisons that humanity’s devastating superweapons left behind, that we ruined the world with, while the latter protects the forests from us so they can finish their work.

        It’s actually a very good source material to use as a backdrop here.

        • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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          22 days ago
          Kind of?

          It’s alittle bit darker when viewed from the lense of Nausicaa, where humans are a dying species with no gaurantee of survival. Literal generations go by before Nausicaa finds the secret under the fungal forests. The vast majority of the world dies out before then. We also never see the ultimate outcome in the film, because it doesn’t matter in the end. The world is moving on without humans.

          That message is a far cry from “things will get better. You’ll see that day.”

          Nausicaa says “No. The world is shit. You very likely will die before things improve. There’s not even any gaurantee your children will see the world get better - humanity itself very well might not. But it will get better… someday”

  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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    22 days ago

    Yep. When humanity’s dead or dying out, based on the backdrop they chose here. I don’t exactly disagree, but I’d really like for us to figure our shit out before then rather than succumb to defeatism.

    Help your neighbor. The worse off they are the more likely they are to surrender without a fight.