The Boy And The Heron Ending Explained
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To me it’s like a farewell to Miyazaki. The slow pace felt like tributes to all his passed work. A journey of farewells. I watched in cinema today with my family. Having grown up watching his animated movies. I’m glad we were able to enjoy this.
I feel that. It might as well be... His art will be with us always ❤
@@Dodl1I know. This film just won an Academy Award. So deserved.
Thankfully myazaki wants to make another anime
Couldn’t agree more, the movie is a perfect testament to what Miyazaki wanted his movies to represent and inspire.
Sad fact: Miyazaki was looking for a successor to carry on Studio Ghibli's legacy. Unfortunately, this search ended this year, as Studio Ghibli was sold to Nippon TV, and Miyazaki ended his search for a successor.
Goro has left the chat. 😢
Bullshit
I would say miyazaki is not looking for a successor anymore. In this movie, the wizard gives mahito the freedom to choose if he wants to keeep the fantasy world or not. Similarly, miyazaki knows that what he built will eventually disappear. He wants his children and future creators to live without the burden of carrying on studio ghibli
I believe that great grand uncle is actually a version of Mahito that never got over his trauma. Closing himself off from everything and retreating to a fantastical world where he was in control. Where even the negative things that happened were his doing.
I never thought about that, but I totally agree.
That's a great perspective
I love that
YES. I always thought both Mahito and the uncle were based on Hayao Miyazaki himself
I also felt that the Lord of the tower was an example of grief and pain. Him not being able to get past and deal with a world with so much pain and suffering, leading him to make his own ideal world. Which of course still did not keep out all of the malice. I believe that he Further added to the theme of the movie but considering Miyazaki's involvement you're most likely right.
I wish the movie did a better job explaining it, it's really confusing and rushed. A 2 hour film felt like it needed a other hour
@@spectralmuffin6487yeah he does indulge in his own personal life.And in this movie specifically it really goes all out into the fantasy aspect. If you look at the history of the movie, most of it is made personal to Miyazaki's life. It does get kind of annoying and movies shouldn't require homework but I feel like he fits it into the narrative well with or without background. The magical fantasy is basically the identity of Ghibli movies, and to be honest is my absolute favorite part about them. This movie might just not be for you.
That's how I felt. I sat in the car with a list of questions after watching it. It felt long for me but like didn't have enough information for me. I still enjoyed the movie though. @spectralmuffin6487
@@googleacountkd6-3.75ah okay that makes more sense. Kinda reminds me of Evangelion. How much more of it makes sense once you dive into the creators life.
That makes a lot of sense! I'm thinking maybe the birds that escaped the fantasy world at the end kind of represent the joy he's spread to everyone through his movies
Mahito declines to be the tower successor can also be an allegory for Hayao failed to pass the torch to his son Goro Miyazaki.
That’s how I saw it too!
More like failing to be able to pass the torch to Kondo all those years ago. Why do people keep missing the references to Kondo’s only film in The Boy and The Heron?
@@princesspikachu3915 which one ?
@@WMG2019 He only made one unfortunately. Whisper Of The Heart.
Edit: Kondo passed away while working on Princess Mononoke.
@@princesspikachu3915its because its truly in the past and people forget. like the movie says.
Omg I bawled my eyes out when he says goodbye to his moms younger self. What a beautiful movie.
That part got me too. Partially because I lost my Mom a couple of years ago.
The boy is Miyazaki, the old man is Miyazaki. And the boy is the future of all young people, be a creator yourself, be compassionate, have humility, learn 'how to live'. A message to his younger self. Don't forget we start out in the midst of wartime Japan, of misery and loss. From the rubble we rebuild. So each of us must do so.❤❤❤❤❤
I think the movie is Miyazaki’s way of dealing with losing not only Takahata in 2018 but also Kondo back in 1996-97. Especially since Kondo’s only film is referenced in The Boy and The Heron.
Apparently back in the 1990’s Kondo was meant to take over Studio Ghibli but passed away young while working on Princess Mononoke. Kondo’s only film that he directed was written and scripted by Miyazaki and I feel like I’m the only person noticing the references to Whisper Of The Heart in The Boy and The Heron.
I appreciate your analysis! I'm curious, what parallels/references did you notice between these two films?
@@magicmass The fact that creativity and feelings of loss are present in both films. I can’t help but feel a connection or parallels between the two films especially viewing them in subtitles. Both main characters seek refuge in a “magical place”. One is definitely more grounded in reality but there’s a sense of the main character in Whisper Of the Heart being too into the books and struggling with creativity. Likewise the great grand uncle in The Boy and the Heron is said to have went crazy after reading too much. It’s hard to describe to those who haven’t seen Whisper of the Heart subtitled or otherwise but I think there’s a reason that birds play a huge part of The Boy and The Heron that ties back to a scene in Whisper of the Heart where writers block causes the lead character to include a dead baby bird in her story. The sense of urgency is felt in both movies.
Edit: I think both films are very layered. The birds in The Boy and the Heron represent the death of creativity and other deeper meanings that I can’t quite describe in much the same way as the dead baby bird did for Whisper of the Heart.
@@princesspikachu3915 thanks for your thoughtful reply! Whisper of the heart is one of my all-time favorite films. I'll have to give both these movies a rewatch, there are still many layers to uncover!
@@princesspikachu3915 Some people suggest that the girl in Whisper of Heart wrote a novel about The Boy and the Heron.
I personally thought this movie was a love letter that Miyazaki wrote to Anno. The old man who went crazy making his own world is obviously Miyazaki himself. The astroid that hijacked Miyazki's creative control in the name of profit is Ghibli's president Suzuki Toshio. Miyazaki was disappointed with how Naussica of the Valley of the Wind turned out. Therefore, Miyazaki wanted Anno to make Naussica 2. However, Anno ultimately left Ghibli in pursuit of his own career.
It is notable that when Anno was suffering from depression a few years ago, Miyazaki asked Anno to do voice acting for The Wind Rises to cope with his dpression.
@@inazuma3gou could be.
I feel like the great uncle also represents Miyazaki himself, who is trying to make us let go of the worlds he has created for us
I feel like he's trying to tell us to be like the boy and let go of him, return to our world and make it a better place, the same way the boy let go of the great uncles magical world to bring his aunt to his father and in turn making him happy
I think Miyazaki is telling us to wake up and that it's our turn to make the world a better place
And not to hide in make-belief worlds, which he has done for so long
Yes.
His stepmother is also his aunt
Yeah WTH lol
Today it's weird to us, but I guess this happened more often back then. People were more desperate to find another partner after being widowed. The wives sister he most probably already knew and got closer to while mourning
@@isaa1782Spot on
It was common before in asia
I don't understand did his mother die in the fire? Then how come the step mother turned out to be his mum too? She didn't die in any fire and was very much alive. I literally just finished the movie very confused is she his mother or not? And did she die in a fire or not?
I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at first after seeing it but after a few hours now I really liked it. The heron is my fav character along with the cute grannies
Saw it last night and am feeling the same. Wasn’t sure I liked it when I left the theater but as I think back on it I feel different
To me the the story was about moving on. In the end the Boy received the opportunity to escape and become a God of a New World. However, Mahito decided that he prefers to stay in his world and try to face it rather than escape. What fascinated me was the fact that the Old Man was content with both decisions, as long as it was the Boy’s choice. And Mahito never lashed out in this movie rather he tried to understand everything around him and make a decision based on everything, not just his emotions.
Mahito lashed out at himself. Remember he whacked himself in the head with a rock in the beginning.
@@princesspikachu3915 I’d call it self harm in form of escapism. Lashing out is more akin to violently pouring your trauma onto people around you. Mahito never hurt anyone.
The tower represented the warplane business. The parakeets are the workers and king parakeet is his dad. The tower is “made of blocks of malice”. > war buisiness
When king parakeet builds a tower with non malice blocks it collapses as its him trying to make the plane company work without war, which collapses.
Mahito keeps a final block so will create his own business when he’s older.
Miyazaki is a serious pacifist. Most of his works are anti war.
This is genius. Wow
This theory does NOT make sense. The great grand uncle specifically stated that the blocks shouldn’t have malice. The tower collapsed because Parakeet King was full of malice. Mahito turned down being the successor because he believed he was unworthy because of his own malice.
Yes Miyazaki is an anti war pacifist. But it makes more sense that Mahito represents personal growth and taking responsibility for one’s own inner struggles. Him taking a block is followed by the Heron stating it “isn’t magical enough” and that he “will forget” about everything that happened there like the others. The movie ends without clarifying if Mahito remembers or forgets. I think he remembers because that narrative fits better than just recycling Spirited Away’s ending (Chihiro forgets about the spirit world when you watch subtitles).
It can symbolize a lot of things .. society, studio ghibli itself. The parrots are eerily similar to fascist regimes like nazi germani, mussolini, imperial japan too.
I saw another theory of how the meteor being death, heave/hell. The wizard is near death (like miyazaki). When his stepmother is pregnant, she is on the verge of life/death- back then, pregnancy was very dangerous for mothers, they could die in childbirth.
Do you mean Japanese subtitles?
That's doesn't quite sound right. Mahito knew the fire girl was his mom. Most of the people and birds he met in the tower weren't trying to go back to the real world, but he faced it head on. I think that's why he refused to stack the blocks. And that bravery inspired his mom to go back for him, that's why she was smiling when she returned after disappearing as a girl.
Btw guys. Miyazaki is already working on the next movie. He hasn’t stopped yet and this was recently confirmed
Just sad ghibli is sold to nippon tv
When Miyazaki dies, studio Ghibli will go with him since no one there can do anything without his vague guidance
My step bro VA's mahito in the russian version
🧢
@@spectralmuffin6487 it's true
@@markynouf126what’s his name then?
@@The_scrongler1978 first of all, you can just find it on the internet, anyone can fake being his brother.
Second, it's Фёдор Редькин.
@@markynouf126oh you actually know his name. Cool, didn’t mean to offend you
I actually really like this explanation
Fr, it’s simple, sweet, and informative
One of the most succint analysis ive seen, thank you
What a lovely thought process. We love love Studio Ghibli world so much.
No, Miyazaki sees himself as the boy and the old guy his mentor, the guy who discovered his talent
I just came home from watching it
i watched the movie yesterday and i have some questions about the endig
1. When the grand uncle world was destroyed (tower collapsed) does that mean the pelicans are now free? since they were stuck on the island starving and thus lead them to eat the wara wara and they weren’t native to the magic world ? Does that mean they returned to their real world
2. himi burns and kills some wara wara trying to protect the majority of them and some wara wara get eaten doesnt that mean the dead wara wara also reincarnate again? since the wara wara are a reference to how souls are created and the the movie theme is about life and death and reincarnation?
and kiriko says that himi killing some of them with her fire will help the majority to be reborn doesnt that also imply that these souls also regulate anyways even if they get burned or die?
and if the world has collapsed, where would warawara go now?
I felt like it was a story about grief, about Mahito not being given the space or time to properly grieve the loss of his mother and hometown before being moved into a new place, and going on this journey to explore what this grief is and how he wants to face it-whether he will accept the loss as part of this new life in the absence of his mother and a home he recognizes, or if he will stay in the fantastical delusion the uncle presents him. I think the movie was released at just the right time after COVID, as many people are still struggling to process what they lost in the pandemic-family, friends, opportunities, celebrations-and how we can find comfort and peace in imagination, and help through our grief in others. It doesn’t feel like I had enough time to really process everything that I missed out on because of COVID, I related to Mahito in feeling like everyone just wanted me to keep moving forward, and like if I dwelled too long on everything that I was missing out on that I’d be consumed by this imaginary version of myself that could never be. By the end of COVID I was in a totally different place than I expected to be, on a different path than what I had imagined before the pandemic began. I found space to grieve, to let myself imagine what could have been, and to let it go, and find happiness and comfort in what I have now. I am happy, and I don’t really dwell on the what if’s too much anymore. But I think this movie was a perfect way to represent what that journey felt like.
Thanks for your short!
But also the boy took a piece of his tower. So he will not be the successor but he is taking a piece of his world with him.
There will never be a studio ghibli like miyazakis. But there will be something new. And maybe it will be beautiful too
It’s a very sad story, I watched it yesterday and cried
I wish I had that reaction I left in disappointment
@@spectralmuffin6487I was in between both emotions haha
I like da cute birbs
I didnt watch a lot of it yea, but my interpretation is the age of like this manga stuff not being carried on by the son or whomever to the next generation, and this possibly being the last of it unless someone picks it up. Its his swan, or heron song which is further evidenced by the crumbling castle, and all the things hes created flying away much like ideas into the ether
Did You Know This is my favorite movie his name is mahito
If only this movie was available on to watch on Digital already
Don’t think, feel!
I love this movie
Bro we just can’t lose another legend don’t jinx him like that😢
I am you mahito-Yuji Itadori
So mahitos dad marries his wife's sister? Woah
I think you mean " How do you live?" Instead of Boy and the Heron
I wish the ending was different I liked the idea of tower and the magic it inhabits continued
I don't know. It's a movie that I will have to try again. It was actually really boring and slow. It might have been that there were too many things going on that didn't seem to connect.
agreed. feel like it was packed with way too much, and he forgot to make an entertainment the top priority
The movie is not made for an american audience. It has a slow pace, doesn't explain much.
@@strenghsGirl You might be right. I've enjoyed his other movies, this one just went past me.
Sure
My real question is... What is the stone??? Why does it have a will of its own, and is it malicious itself or a protector?? And who is Mahitos unborn brother we barely see before the credits roll??? Nasuke was lured into the underworld JUST to give him a "safe place" to be born, and even his family were nearly destroyed by the Stone for breaking the taboo of trying to interfere; WHY??? So far, everyone who's given an analysis of the film has failed to mention either the Stone or the brother, and I feel they're the most ambiguous themes of the whole film!
Coming of age; not ‘coming to age’.
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Can anyone tell me where to watch pliz
I just watched it in the cinema
Yes the old uncle is miyazaki
Brother will it be subtitleless in english dubbed
Miyazaki has retired multiple times before
Bruh, I thought the fantasy world was the afterlife... I feel so stupid.
me too lol
Mahito like in JJK 😂
wait is that mahito from jjk backstory
bit of a dick move to just let a whole entire world end simply cause you've made 2 friends in the past couple of days, of which 2 are actually FROM that world....
and those white little thingies that can fly; they get born as humans? they're souls?
so no more souls now? nice going ya selfish little prick...
explaining an ending to a movie 98% of people have not seen...
Where can i watch it (free)?
🤎🙏
Gotta be honest I did not like this one.
It’s really sad because I love miyazakis work and grew up with it. Being someone who adjusted to a stepmother this should’ve hit close to home with me. Instead it just left really really really confused as to what is going on. I had more questions at the end of the movie than the beginning.
For me it was a 6/10 which is on the low side for his films for me. I was a bit disappointed but still enjoyed it. It just felt a little bit dragged in some parts. A lot of time has passed, but not much happened, or not much information was given.
@@kyu2756 I felt there were a lot of threads set up with little to no pay off for the viewer.
@@Chafmere most definitely
@@Chafmere feels like too many people trying too hard to like this film due to the name attached to the film.
Honestly one of the worst movies I’ve seen in theaters. Part of the reason I think I feel that way is bc of how excited I was to watch it only to be given one of the worst stories I’ve ever come to witness from a screen. Idk how people can defend this putrid story
Just saw it in the theaters with 6 of my Ghibli loving family members. We all rated it a 4/10 for being kinda boring and disappointing due to the lack of character development between Mahito and literally anyone. We saw many similarities to the other movies and the art is beautiful but the story was nothing compared to Princess Mononoke (which is my favorite). I sadly wouldn't watch it again 😔
I thought i was the only one. My friend and i left half way through. I'll watch the ending when its streaming.
@@AmandaMewathe beginning dragged on too long, for no reason, because he didn’t develop much of a relationship with any of the side characters, and the ending was very rushed
@@AmandaMewaWhoever pays for a movie, and then leaves halfway through without staying to see the end are actual embarrassments lol. Sorry but your opinion is irrelevant until you've seen the end.
@576kg8 a few kids left with their parents, this movie had no excuse to be so slow and boring. If this movie wasn't made by miyazaki you guys would be tearing it apart 😂
@@576kg8 That's your opinion. Some people only need to see so much before they know what is interesting to them. I would argue that a person who stays to watch a movie to the end, even though they are bored and uninterested, is too invested for the wrong reasons.
Ghibli might have pass to New hands but I disagree with Miyazaki ending his career and even when he dies he's leaving a legacy that will live on and be enriched with time
Its about Miyazaki bruh
I was so confused did mahito's father marry his wife's sister only two years after her death💀 or am I tripping? I understand there is a deeper meaning but personally I would never allow that to happen
Japan animator prefer make hentai rather than notable art like Ghibli studio does.
I just want to know why the step mom yelled at him saying “I hate you” in the cave. That’s it. That’s all I want to know
I think it was just a moment of withheld resentment for how distant he is to her when she tries so hard to be affectionate to him
It's not only him who is pretty ambivalent but also her. She is in a very difficult position. I could relate to her resentment, even though I have no stepkids. It's interesting that this is also the moment he decides to call her 'mother'.
So, his stepmother is his mom's sister correct?
yes
That doesn't explain why the father was cheating his wife with her sister
He was not cheating. He married her after his wife died. Not very long ago, men often remarried very soon if they had little kids.
It's too short of a movie to explain all of that. Long and confusing
Or you are just used to Hollywood movies. They explain thing, show it and then explain it again that even the dumbest person gets it.😅
@@strenghsGirl not a good movie
It didnt hit me emotionally. I struggled to relate to him, not understanding what he stood for. It was disjointed and too philosophical
This isn't it. I know it's hard for a young person to reconcile this film, but this is a terrible take.
Lol. I know a 12 year-old who makes better sense than this analysis.
i like this explanation but unfortunately the movie was not very good
Meh this movie was kind of all over the place, not a great story and hard to understand. I'm a huge Miyazaki fan and watched mononoke hime in theaters in Japan, but this movie was just not it.
Si if you don’t care for Miyazaki the story blows. I was bored and confused.
Herons don't have teeth.
Ok..?
There’s a dude inside it. Watch the movie before you judge
That's the whole point...?
It was Awful and stop defending it. Stop the artistic expression rubbish, the fact this film needed so many films trying to explain it shows it was completely a self indulgent piece of garbage, pacing was awful, and the story made utterly no sense, the dad was a creep too
Yiu should phrase your comment. YOU don't like it. It is not a fact like your comment is written. I really enjoyed the movie. It had an interesting story. Great twists, good characters, great moments. Not your type of movie, that is OK.
@@strenghsGirl I love all studio Ghibli movies, they’re incredible. But no. The boy was so mundane and boring. One moment it’s a really weird “I’ve never met my auntie, now she’s my mother” and wizards that rule the universe, to a bird world, to a water world, yet the boy has the same dead pan face. The characters were completely random and had no depth. Sorry but you’re defending Miyazaki’s honour. I love the man too but this was like a tribute to all his movies squished in 1. Like Ghibli Vomit. Made utterly no sense.
@@MrCheekyDimps Different opinions. I loved it. I was not a fan of The Wind Rises. That was boring for me and it also a miyazaki movie
ah yea lets explain the ending of a film because pple are stupid and dont get it
Bro just spoiled the movie for me
@@TheContemplator225bro could’ve clicked away but he stayed 💀
The movie is still very much worth the watch just for the spectacle and amazing soundtrack.
*clicks on an “ending explained” video*
*gets mad when the ending is explained*
@@chovue2363I disagree I thought it was an incredibly well animated confusing mess.
@@spectralmuffin6487true
Just go ahead and spoil it
I am you mahito-Yuji Itadori