One of my favorite films as a child – and my entry point in the Ghibli studio and the melancholy worlds of Hayao Miyazaki – was Kiki delivery service. Even among a collection of almost all Disney animated titles, Kiki’s VHS CLAMHELL received the highest use. THE Buena Vista hikes who played before was attached to memory: directly to live Jungle book And King of lion Sexels, an otherwise nonexistent film entitled Summer of monkeysand the American liberation of Miyazaki Castle in the sky. But even in the middle of the promotion of inspiration without inspiration and the Plasticky smell of the VHS box, which I found in each overhaul of Kiki The 102 -minute execution time was hand -fired. I would later discover that the more fantastic visions of Miyazaki of soot sprites, pilot pigs, forest spirit, catbus and non-factors, but it was current magic in everyday Kiki delivery service who filled my dreams.
Kiki could be considered an aberrant value in the career of Hayao Miyazaki. At the very least, it would be easy to confuse it as a lighter price. Although he shares the brand of young people who follow young people – often young women – while they cross the other side of a fantastic journey, Kiki delivery service is absent from the dark edge of Fierycentral environmental allegory to Princess Mononoke,, Nausicaä de la Vallée du VentAnd Castle in the skyOr the themes of war – present to a certain extent to a majority of his filmography, and especially in the Movement castle of Howl, Porco Rossoand operates later as The wind rises And The boy and the heron. But even as an adult, it is Miyazaki’s film that I returned the most, and the one who continues to light my most optimistic imagination.
Nostalgia has often been used as a weapon to allow fascism. After all, making the country “large” is not presented as an avant-garde ideology, but something that must be achieved “Again“,” Reclaiming an instant manipulated from the past. I am not the only nostalgic person for Miyazaki’s films, and this desire was exposed as a complete representation of today’s flavor of reactionary authoritarianism through the “Ghibli Ai Art studio” which went and come – less like crazy, and More like the consumption of billions of water gallons to cool the servers of AI.
This trend took a short time to reach a deplorable bottom like The White House And Israeli defense forces (FDI) Expressed too much enthusiasm representing their militarized forces as heroes of cruelty with cute and rounded faces. (Unsurprisingly, these images share little resemblance to Ghibli titles more appropriate such as Bassineful.) But even the most harmless applications revealed the empty aesthetic exercise of all the fucking simulation, a little more than a cartoon filter put on an internet avatar to gain the trend.
Those who defend the possibilities of AI show their hand through defensive proclamations by heart: “AI democratizes art!” “The artists cry because they realized that they are obsolete.” “Finally, art is accessible.”
There is an impulse in this last declaration that I can understand to a certain extent. Whenever I sit down to write a test like this, there is the temptation to recall everything. I fight with the writing process even if it is the one I have managed to cross several times before. It is a process that requires confidence: confidence that even when I feel creative, the competence I think is always there; Be confidence that I will not put a plateau, but that I grow, and that I will continue to grow; And trust what is happening once the words have come out, the edition is over, and it is in the world. It is not that it is impossible to access these parts that make up which we are, but it is vulnerable to be who we are and to place this in the aim of others.
This same tension is at the heart of Kiki delivery service. On its surface, Kiki’s is a classic film from adulthood to otherness (and if you are like me, a bizarre awakening in the form of Ursula, the hot and free painter expressed by Janeane Garofalo in the English dub). Kiki is the following on a witch line to be 13 years old and, as is tradition, will be triggered alone for a year as part of his training. Accompanied only by her black cat Jiji, Kiki’s flight begins to tremble, but she is nevertheless delighted to look for a city that could use a resident witch. His hope is not as rooted in his training as the fantasy of imagining a new house and new people to meet. But, of course, things do not always take place as planned, and in the first 24 hours of their traveling travels, Kiki and Jiji come up against a windy storm shortly after being snubbed by another witch in training who claims that she says Love Fortunes. “What is My Special competence? Kiki mumbles to herself, discouraged.
Kiki Journey is a navigation in the relationship between creativity and work. Even if she and Jiji find a beautiful city by the sea – just as Kiki imagined it – few residents seem impressed by the presence of a witch. The pair escapes a police officer who ashamed Kiki for having caused chaos with his flight, and are rejected when they try to look for a shelter in a hotel. Even Tombo, the boy who helps them dodge the police, seems more interested to idealize Kiki’s otherness as a witch than to approach him respectfully as a young peer. Kiki finds his people, however, mainly in the form of older women who share mentorship, inspiration and similar difficulties balancing their profession with the requirements of work.
We receive previews of work and care that goes to bakery products that OSONO sells with her husband while they are preparing for the arrival of a baby; Ursula seems to be a full -time artist, sailing on the moments when inspiration is short; And although Barsa seems to be the maid and madam’s maid and caregiver (although there is a “roommate” energy there, if you ask me), the elderly always find challenges to keep the house and cook Madame’s gifts with her granddaughter. The strength of these women and love made in their work (whether professional or otherwise) nourish Kiki’s inspiration throughout the film. In this community, Kiki Forces, work is reciprocal – not transactional. Kiki Help Osono with the bakery and Osono provides meals and a room. While Ursula repairs the injured doll that Kiki was supposed to deliver, the young witch helps Ursula to clean her floors. Even if the Madame is content to compensate for Kiki when the pie is not ready in time, Kiki helps to make the pie and manage the tasks around the house. This work – coded as a pink neck or a traditionally feminized work, such as care provision, domestic work and certain creative industries – is not presented as an obligation, and it is not presented as unqualified. This is the way these characters help themselves to live an enriching life full of possibilities. These women inspire Kiki, but she also inspires them like the muse of the bread crown displayed by Osono and her husband, the painting of Ursula, and the cake Madame offers Kiki.
KikiThe community vision of the community is much more fantastic in the face of so-called “art” of AI. The sufficient defenses of the facsimiles generated by AI are, of course, but they also aim to invent an enemy: the caretaker artist who overputs their talents simultaneously and has so exclusive talents, AI is necessary even to the playground. It is not a coincidence that the industries and the targeted skills via the Crusades of IA are precarious industries to start. The artists of all the supports are often underestimated and have little or no access to the advantages or health care which are not on their own pockets. Between a cruel representation of ghibual style of ice expulsion or the ecstatic proclamations of jobs that will be replaced by AI, joy aims to make the whole communities obsolete.
What owes to others? In Kiki delivery serviceThe biggest crisis for our young witch comes after a series of interactions that exhaust her magic without renewing it – unusual customers and the difficulty of feeling accepted by others of his age. In this last scenario, Kiki’s work alienates him as much from Tombo as his magic that they notice how unusual it is to work at his age. But we see many and many times that the community is what reconstitutes the mind. It is natural for animals that we see throughout the film, geese turning each other, aggressive winds to crows looking for the predator who tries to steal eggs. The whole city is all the better because of Kiki’s openness and generosity, and its community all the more dynamic for round trip of its mind.
When I come back to Kiki delivery serviceThere is undoubtedly an element of nostalgia, and yet my continuous love for the film is not because of what was in the past, but what could be. I see a world where survival does not depend on exhaustion. I see a world where we do not want what makes us unique, but with excitation for what others can share. I see a world where we do not, so that others are eradicated, but we rather have a curiosity towards what they need, how we can help and how we can be vulnerable together.
This is exactly what the art of AI and all that it represents threatens to take us. Of course, the art generated by AI is easier to access; There is nothing to reach. When we have all installed the shield, we only have avatars left, the connection is breaking effectively. If you are looking to Kiki delivery service And messaging in so many Ghibli studio movies has ostensibly celebrated in this recent trend, you understand how little about isolation and competition.
I could never do what Hayao Miyazaki does as an animator, but I can be inspired by his work. To date, Kiki delivery service challenges me to think differently of myself as a creative trying to survive my work and as a person who wants to see the survival of my communities. I do not need an OpenAi or a chatgpt to imitate an aesthetic to prove that I have nothing more to learn or master. We are all works in progress, whether Kiki in search of the source of his magic or someone who tries to understand how to transform an idea into art. Kiki knows that witches fly with her mind, but she does not reconnect with her mind until he does not come out of love for someone who needs his help.
As Kiki’s magic will come back to save Tomb in the air, art has always been in length. It is worth stretching hands.
