Do you remember how you were when you were a child?

Evie 2022-03-23 09:01:16

Seeing that many people think the story of My Neighbor Totoro is too simple for children, and not too complicated and profound enough, I really feel that everyone has forgotten their childhood appearance and dreams back then?

When I was a child, everyone should have experienced it. My parents were not at home, I was locked up at home to do homework, watch TV, I was lonely, I had a good friend or two to play with myself, but I couldn’t always be in need of help. It is impossible to fulfill the quirky dreams of elves in childhood, and it is even impossible to quarrel with good friends, just like the little sisters here who help resolve conflicts afterwards.

And this animated film takes place in a beautiful countryside. The father of two children moved to the countryside because his wife was sick. The two children came to this original ecological village without reinforced concrete and felt very curious. The nature is so beautiful and graceful. , The wooden house at home is also a shy dust elf.

And My Neighbor Totoro should be the magical elf bred by nature, right? It resembles the owner here. It lives in a tree hole that only children can find. It is very tall, big, and has a soft belly. The child is warm on it. He also has two little chinchillas, one Cat car.

My Neighbor Totoro appears four times in this movie

The first time it was when Xiaomei chased the little Totoro by mistake, hit the tree hole of the Big Totoro, and fell on the big Totoro's belly.

The second time, Xiaomei and Xiaoyue were waiting at the bus stop for his father’s car to pick him up. The big Totoro who was covered in rain suddenly appeared and waited with them. Xiaoyue gave the umbrella to the big Totoro, and the big Totoro gave it to him. They have a pack of his favorite acorns.

For the third time, Xiaoyue and Xiaomei planted acorns and wanted them to germinate and grow into towering trees. Then My Neighbor Totoro came over in the middle of the night to help them realize their dreams. My Neighbor Totoro used his magic to help them make the seeds overnight. It suddenly became a big oak tree, and Xiaoyue Xiaomei, My Neighbor Totoro, and his Little Neighbor Totoro were all sitting on the fork blowing shop.

The last time Xiaomei and Xiaoyue were awkward because of their mother. Xiaoyue finally couldn't find Xiaomei and could only go to Totoro. Totoro called the cat bus to help her find her sister, and found her sister, and the cat bus also took the initiative to go to the resource help Xiaomei sent corn and looked at her mother from a distance.

From a realistic point of view, My Neighbor Totoro does not exist at all. Seeds cannot grow into towering trees overnight, and there is no cat bus that goes wherever you want. However, this movie is a fairy tale, or it’s a fairy tale. It is a world in the eyes of children.

Our childhood is often full of this kind of illusion. The wind may blow by a cat and the bus will fly by, rushing to us and bringing us to realize our dreams. I have a dream, and dream of what I am looking forward to, which may take a long time to come true tomorrow. I am lonely alone, and want to find friends to play with, so I just happen to have a big chinchilla to make friends with me.

However, the most rare thing about Chinchilla is that it is full of innocence while returning to reality. It reminds us all the time that Chinchilla and cat bus can only be seen by children, adults cannot see, although oak seeds are germinating. , But it did not grow into a towering tree, so everything may be the child's own behavior, with a fantasy element, as everyone understands.

In fact, the parents of Xiaoyue and Xiaomei in the story are already very good parents. They are full of childishness and know how to educate. However, it is inevitable that the two children will be left out of the cold, and the children will inevitably have a time of loneliness and loss, and our parents Most of them are far inferior to the parents in the story. There must have been more days eager to accompany us when we were young. Perhaps this big chinchilla is the incarnation of a good friend who can accompany us all the time, right?

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  • Ike 2021-10-20 19:02:14

    Miyazaki is really a genius with a soft heart. Can give this cruel world so much warmth. My Neighbor Totoro is really like a childhood dream. It seems to have forgotten when he grows up. When he sees its fluffy body, he thinks of all his extravagant hopes. This is probably what we can comfort each other in loneliness. In any case, maturity is a disease, and the only thing that can cure it is probably the warmest yearning for this world.

  • Oswaldo 2022-03-19 09:01:02

    I also want a My Neighbor Totoro as a pet. The bus is so cute.

My Neighbor Totoro quotes

  • SatsukiMei Kusakabe: Come out, come out, wherever you are!

  • Mei Kusakabe: To-to-ro? You're Totoro!... I bet you're Totoro...