But we know that Mr Gong prefers to add some hidden lines outside the main line in his works, so that the audience can have new feelings when rethinking after enjoying the main line. Spirited Away is one of the most representative works. At the end of the film, the hero Bai Long did not choose to leave with the heroine, which actually belongs to the author's last obscure point about another meaning of the work.
It is a hint that the hero, White Dragon, has not left. Some people may ask, Bailong is not a disciple of Tang, so he can't leave? No, at the beginning of the film, the author actually told us that the hero Bailong did not belong to that other world. When he first met Chihiro, he looked a little surprised, but more worried.
In the later plot, the author also admitted that Bailong had seen the heroine. But he couldn't remember when he saw it until he and Qian returned to Tang's house. Through Chihiro's reminder, he remembered that he was the owner of the Amber River. The Amber River was buried for some reason, and people built various modern buildings on it.
Therefore, because the hero was homeless, he went to Tang to learn magic. The source of this situation is precisely because of the indiscriminate filling and occupation of rivers by human beings and the destruction of the environment by human beings. At the beginning of the plot, when the heroine's parents saw the building of the soup house, they also said, "Because of the bubble economy in the 1990 s, many buildings were built and later abandoned." At this time, it can be regarded as another questioning point of the author about the dark line environment except that Bailong is homeless.
Later, when the heroine helped the river god clean herself up and help him recover his true identity, it was the author's second shot. Because the garbage spit out by the river god is nothing more than abandoned electrical appliances, furniture, etc., and even second-hand bicycles. Only human beings can make it, but on the other hand, man-made garbage can make the miraculous river god so embarrassed, which is enough to see how serious human damage to the environment has reached.
Chihiro got a magical meatball for helping the river god. The dying white dragon lost control after eating the meatball given by the river god. When it spits out the seal, it spits out the bugs together, which is exactly the way Tang used to control the white dragon. But it has been trampled to death, so the imprisonment of the white dragon has disappeared, and he can completely avoid being controlled by Tang.
But at the end of the movie, he still said that he can't live without this world. Maybe it's not that he doesn't want to leave, but that circumstances force him to leave. Because the outside world of reinforced concrete no longer belongs to him, the amber river where he lives has disappeared. So Bailong finally didn't choose to leave. The deeper intention revealed by the author should be an accusation of human wanton destruction of the environment.
Apart from environmental factors, what do you think is the reason why Bailong refused to leave? You can comment on your ideas below and discuss them together.