Spider web forest

The more I think about the movie, the more I wonder about the sprit. What exactly is the importance of the spinning cloth? 

Is he supposed to be like fate, a blind woman who spins a wheel in most mythology? It seems the webs of spider web forest extend far beyond the actual forest.

It’s interesting to see the soldiers talking about the fortress and remark on past events and happenings and also wonder on what can happen to the fortress next.  The story doesn’t seem to exclude all those other people in the fort even though they aren’t focused on.  I do wonder what they thought of the general. I also wonder if their changing loyalty at the end is supposed to show how fickle a hold on power can be.

The spirits plot or spider web is quite extensive. It brings down everyone one from the two generals, the former ruler who himself was a traitor. Perhaps the spirit is meant to act as some of divine retribution towards traitors or something similar. The spirit tells Washizu , when Washizu says he will bring forth a flood of blood, to be even more ruthless and flood the forest with eve more blood.  Perhaps this alludes to how slippery Washizus’ killing spree is.

The spirit didn’t do much other than appear and disappear and goad them on into greed and treachery so you can’t quite put all the blame on the spirit. Both general had failings, which were exposed when they received power. Yet you cannot simply write off either as evil. Nor can you do the same with any of the other characters in the movie. All of them from the wife, to the soldiers who finally betray the general, do have reasonable fears and doubts.  So the entire movie seems to be suggesting that bloodbaths are the result of simply thinking of saving your own skin and that ideas like duty and honor are important. Even if it isn’t, the movies natural ability to seem like it’s trying to teach you something gives it a very unique sort of flavor.

Anime, movies, cartoons the more I think about them I realize that samurai aren’t usually shown as dishonorable. Anime and Magna, even ones that concentrate only on samurai like Samurai X or Samurai Jack, they don’t have a lot of bad samurai. So seeing Samurai having to struggle with their greed, question the worth of their values and really just be more human felt like a refreshing change.

None of the characters felt two dimensional; they all had their motive ad changed throughout the movie.  Even normal political dramas have less character development than this movie.

The fortress and the forest, although frightening, are not as interesting as the incredible story of the main characters, which despite being the result of supernatural forces, feels so realistic.