| SPOILERS!!! After watching Nausicaä at Melbourne's ACMI, I kept returning to Obaba's 'prophecy fulfilled' moment. It felt incomplete, for some reason you know? Four days later, I after some umination, I came to a food-for-thought that we mistake human wholeness for divine destiny. So I decided to write about it, an analysis, examining how both divine prophet(s) and Nausicaä demonstrate the same mechanism, empathy-driven choice within constraint, regardless of whether that compassion is framed as divine gift or cultivated virtue. The key insight lies in the Greek word "teleios," which signifies not flawlessness but completeness, being whole and capable of holding contradiction without disintegrating. I actually wrote a piece that delves into five key aspects: why Obaba's projection is human recognition rather than prophecy fulfillment, how biblical prophecy mechanics differ from Nausicaä's dormant cultural mythology, the Valley folk's horizontal relationships (genuine friendship versus worship), why both figures exercise agency within circumstance rather than submitting to fate, and how empathy emerges as a first principle through the human heart recognizing itself in another. Ultimately, the source of compassion, divine or human, matters less than its authentic exercise, suggesting that transformation stems not from supernatural validation but from authentic choice within constraint. Here is the piece I wrote: https://medium.com/@rafaelbprasetyo/human-choice-and-divine-will-reinterpreting-prophecy-in-nausica%C3%A4-e345790b4c5a Please do tell me what you think about and I'd definitely love to hear you guys' thoughts or any other interpretations. (Also it's my first time writing such piece lol bear with me) |
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| It's interesting to read analyses that only consider the movie, because the manga drastically changes up the game. Her agency without circumstance is significantly clearer in the manga where she has to make much more drastic, world-shaping choices. |
 Thanks to @KIOSHI_17 for the wonderful present! |
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