I might not understand it before, but I felt sad when I went to the theater this time. Now I fully understand the unexplained reality. The mother’s illness changed the family’s situation. The apparently joyful move was obviously hard and unavoidable. The movie stayed at what the child could understand, including the mother’s illness, which only came from the adult’s narration. The ambiguity became a shadow in the heart. . In that era, once admitted to the hospital, most of them were never returned.
The fantasy part and reality part of the movie can actually be completely separated. This is obviously done deliberately by the director, which not only provides comfort, but also does not make sadness lose its sense of reality and become cheap.
Sister Xiaoyue’s play with My Neighbor Totoro never involves the adult world. She has never prayed that the magic of My Neighbor Totoro will restore her mother. In fact, removing the part of My Neighbor Totoro, the plot is completely smooth, and her father can’t see everything that happens outside the house. On the second day, it was only the acorn sprouted. The function of all the fantasy parts was just to make Satsuki feel at ease and happy, without affecting reality.
Even in the last paragraph, fantasy and reality seem to converge, but they are not real. I don’t want to use a deliberately pessimistic tone to interpret why my mother “sees” in the end, because the scene in the hospital can still only come from Satsuki’s narration, otherwise why don’t they show up? My Neighbor Totoro is not a secret, but they are trying their best. Isn't it a fairy tale proved by adults? (But it can also be understood that when Satsuki found that people couldn't see the cat bus, she changed her mind, and the movie will not fall to a single understanding)
Did the mother really receive the corn? People can either believe it or think it is just a fantasy, because the family is really reunited again to verify that what happened that night can only happen outside of the movie time. Up.
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