When I was in film theory, the teacher said that after watching a French film for ten minutes, you will feel the picture is very beautiful. After watching it for twenty minutes, you will feel bored. After watching it for forty minutes, you will feel that the film is a little interesting. After watching it for an hour, it may be Found this to be a good movie.
To be honest, I felt very uncomfortable watching this film, an indescribable awkwardness and discomfort, which is why I highly recommend it.
A classmate asked me what movie I was watching, and I joked that I was watching "Man and Nature". Indeed, the little girl is the only character in the play, and the animals are foxes, wolves, bears, and more. In the context of modern society, the relationship between people and people is downplayed, and the relationship between people and animals is used as the main axis of the film, and the beautiful scenery like a fairy tale is pleasing to the eye.
A film is bound to have contradictions, and this contradiction also directly affects the audience. The girl wants to be the fox's friend and gets closer to it step by step. After gaining the fox's trust, the girl hopes to possess it. In the later stages of the film, the little girl forces the fox again and again, but the fox is not obedient, which intensifies the contradiction. Extremes meet, and the more the little girl wants the fox to be, the more the fox doesn't, and finally the conflict reaches a climax.
When watching the film, the behavior of the little girl made me feel very uncomfortable. This kind of discomfort contains disgust for girls and sympathy for foxes. But I always kept forgiving her, even if the fox jumped off at the end I forgave her. Because she is a child, because of that pure childlike innocence, and also because of my no longer childlike innocence. Forgive her and forgive yourself.
When I watched "My Neighbor Totoro", I had the aftertaste of childhood, and this time too. It was only at the end of the film that I suddenly realized that what I forgave was
the childlike innocence of everyone, it was a fairy tale.
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