I really admire how human beings can stand it

Guadalupe 2022-04-19 09:02:38

The works from 1994 still have a lot of cautionary significance when looking at them now. The protection of the environment, the reflection on the development of human society. However, mankind has never been taught a lesson, and everything can only develop in an increasingly extreme direction.

How good it was to be a civet cat before, with a childlike innocence and pure happiness. This animation is as imaginative as Ghibli has always done. In the laughter and laughter, a very cruel reality was revealed. When I was a kid, when I watched this cartoon, I could only think about protecting the environment, but not much else. But looking at it now, it's more of a feeling of remorse. Why did human beings become like this, fighting each other and hurting each other.

I'm probably also a civet cat that has difficulty adapting to society.

The movie finally brought tears to my eyes. Why the simple animation can bring such unforgettable feelings.

The civet cat did a prank with the last ounce of strength.

The playful tanuki got on the big boat and didn't know where it was ahead.

The remaining civet cats join human society to accept the whipping of reality.

In the end, the civet cats who returned to the silly music danced together, but fortunately they have not forgotten each other.

But it's all just like a dream. Because the fox and the tanuki have disappeared.

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Pom Poko quotes

  • Narrator: One day, an urgent report interrupted Gonta's training at headquarters. He hurried home to the Takaga Woods to face tragedy.

    [Gonta arrives at the edge of a hill, and is greeted by the sight of miles of barren wasteland, with only a bulldozer and an excavator sitting where the woods had been]

    Narrator: More than half his childhood home had already been ravaged by destruction.

    [Gonta stares in horror. He lets out a howl of despair]

    Narrator: Gonta went mad with grief.

  • Gonta: "We have a full array of potent tricks." A load of hot air! We were idiots to think those old dudes could help us in the first place.