Princess Mononoke

Most fantasy films don't resonate because the stories are ham and filled with plots that deal only with the world around the story. Princess Mononoke has a lot of discussion and explanation about a world where humans and animals battle for control of a forest, but the story is rooted in deep human emotions. The story is supposebly about a foreign situation, but is about the very unclear nature of right and wrong. Actually if someone looks at this foreign world they see signs of Japanese culture in mythical and religious beliefs. Like Kurosawa before him, Miyazaki uses a distant subject to deal with very modern feelings.