Dec 11, 2023
I truly feel like The Boy and The Heron is Miyazaki’s apology letter to his son Goro.
Not in a “your my precious son and I love you so much, here a movie to make you for my failures” kind of way
but in a “I’ve built this incredible empire and legacy that’s given magic to millions of people, and in that time you’ve lived in that same world, and so naturally it’s expected that you’d take it over in my place, but I know that you’ll never succeed me or that you’ll be able to recreate the magic. This magical world will die with me, this company will die with me, and that’s okay. You don’t have to be me.”
