![]() ![]() She grew up among the wolves, lived as a wolf herself and is unerringly loyal to this life. ![]() San infiltrates Ironworks, stands on the rooftop. In a way, Ashitaka is like our scientists who keep warning us about climate change, about a possible pandemic YEARS back but we didn’t listen and look where it got us. He taught the people how to handle the infection and told the wolves keeping San is wrong because she is a human. He talked to Lady Eboshi about the destruction her iron is wreaking into the forest, told her that the Deer God is not the enemy. He became a gateway for important information. Ashitaka helps the women of Iron Town work the bellowsĪshitaka, therefore, understood what every party is fighting for and stubbornly tried to mediate for everyone’s sake. He’s an admirable warrior before the infection, yes, but he wised up through experience having lived as a human, getting infected by a Demon, being healed by the Deer God, and having seen the situation at Iron Works. ![]() How did they handle such an astronomical problem? Let’s break it down one character at a time.Īshitaka is probably the wisest of all the characters in Princess Mononoke but remember that he didn’t start out this way. Okay, maybe it didn’t exactly go that way in Princess Mononoke but the similarities between this movie and with the COVID-19 pandemic we have right now are worth taking note. It all starts like this: an infected animal meets a human being, the virus spreads and boom, a pandemic starts. ![]()
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