Live like a civet cat

Dorthy 2022-01-11 08:03:05

I love this film so much that I finally cried and lost my eyes.
In fact, each of the Studio Ghibli animations can be viewed as a classic. The reason why this film is so touching is probably because the theme is so hopeless.
If people live a human life and never disturb the civet cat;
if the civet cat lives the life of a civet cat and never come to disturb people,
there will be no such story.
But the problem is that the fact is that nature is the predator of the weak, but humans. Getting stronger and stronger, the civet cat is getting weaker and weaker.
This is a truth that everyone understands. From the beginning, I didn't think that civet cats could regain their good life, but there was always a little hope in my heart. After all, this is a cartoon. Can you give me some warmth?
But you find that the harder the civet cats work, the farther they deviate from the goal they want, because they are out of date.
This is the word, out of place.
Just like a commercial society, if you don't have an economic foundation, you can't build an ivory tower.
The civet cats are so much like ourselves, we throw away our dreams one by one, and then follow the ideals of most of the society, and blend into a self that we don't dare to know.

At the end, when the civet cats tried their best to imagine their former hometown, forests, wilderness, streams, and the good life of the past, I actually knew in my heart how to reconcile myself when I missed the past when I look back occasionally. The person most people are willing to accept is more important than dreams.

Just crying, you have to live in the crowd like a civet cat after all.

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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!