Anime director Makoto Shinkai tells Newsweek about the inspiration for his new film and why some people have refused to watch 'Suzume.'
"She as a protagonist is really fighting natural disasters, or trying to prevent natural disasters. That seems to be her main antagonist," Shinkai said."In a way, she's taking a stand against nature herself. So I thought, 'What animal could represent nature?' and I arrived at the character Daijin.
"So, in a similar way with Suzume's relationship to nature—she has a very interesting one with the ocean in particular because in one moment it could be very beautiful, but at the next it could send a tsunami to wash everything away—I was trying to represent that dichotomy in an animal." The butterflies that are seen around the lead character have a deeper meaning as well, the director said, though he didn't realize exactly what they would represent until the animation was near completion.
"I realized after completing the film why I had put in place the butterflies in those particular scenes. I don't know if the same can be said in Western, European or American countries but in Asia, particularly, butterflies can be the symbol of someone's soul.
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