comedy shell, sad core

Skylar 2022-04-21 09:03:02

Animation in 1994, there is no shortage of glimpses of the 21st century.

The civet cats are undoubtedly kind, forgetful and optimistic by nature, so they challenge human beings, like wandering soldiers, lacking in strategy, and self-defeating, but it is precisely their failures and irony throughout the film that make the film born The sense of joy was dubbed "comedy".

It's just that kind of "happiness", if you laugh and laugh, you can't laugh... It's the shell of comedy, the core of sadness!

So, today, those foxes and civet cats who may still exist in human society, under the neon lights, busy with traffic, walking alone, are you used to bowing your head and hurrying on the road? What about the rabbits and mice who have never learned the "Disguise Technique", are they afraid that one day there will be no living space, and the whole family will be destroyed and become the historical fossils in the museum?

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Pom Poko quotes

  • Narrator: A few tanuki went into real estate and got rich, selling forests to developers. They're no different from the humans.

  • Narrator: Some raccoons sold real estate, and, unable to resist the money they could make, promoted leveling even more forests.

    [Seizaemon, in human form, is shown on the phone]

    Seizaemon: I've got a prime piece of forest just waiting to be developed!