my thoughts on some movies which are trying to hide their creators true motivations behind an acceptable public facade

i was watching steamboy and howls moving castle a couple of nights ago and i came to a realization. both movies are highly compromised due to their creators inability to say what they really mean due to sociatial expectations about the kind of messages works of art should display (especially in regards to conflict)
Out of the two steamboy far more compromised, it is an anti war movie solely because the creators love military hardware and that the only acceptable way to present huge arrays of awesome tanks and warplanes and the like.
Howls works better because Miyazaki has the discipline to carry the message through to its thematic conclusion (the hastily, damn near arbitrarily resolved war at least finishes, its also easier to give it a pass as it is only a subplot vs steamboys overwhelming anti war theme whose confused insincerity is further undermined by the promise of further adventures in the stills shown during the credits (awesome airship battles etc)).

princess mononoke works a lot better on a similar theme (though its the war of man and nature rather than straight anti war) because its more honest with its ending. which can basically be summed up as nature is important and something irretrievable is lost but that doesn't make humanity and its desire to improve its lot irrevocably evil or even necessarily wrong.
which makes its portrayal of the human warriors as a disciplined and idealized feudal collective thematically justified. in a straight nature=good man=bad movie the portrayal would have led to a thematically compromised work with the artist torn between his desire to portray cool feudal warriors and his socialization to extol nature over man (not that I'm trying to imply that Miyazaki is anything less than genuine in his environmentalism)

you see the same thing with a lot of ww2 movies especially ones that have the gestapo and the ss prominently featured them (inglourious basterds) there's an element of glorification of reveling in the pageantry. I've heard the argument that movies portraying shooting regular German army guys are less moral because they aren't necessarily Nazis. but i can't help but feel it represents a less compromised portrayal of Nazis as villains. it is a pure condemnation of all that the Nazis stood for.

If you can't say what you want to say because you are worried about controversy then you either need to man up and accept the fact what you have to say may offend people or find a way to say it that doesn't directly contradict your real motivation by putting a acceptable face on it. or if its something you know is wrong perhaps you just shouldn't say it to begin with rather than trying to slide it in behind a false condemnation.