After watching this film, it is natural to think of Kaguya Princess Monogatari, also directed by Isao Takahata. I feel that Ghibli's films have always paid attention to the issue of "childhood". This is the case with Isao Takahata, and so is Hayao Miyazaki. However, most of Hayao Miyazaki's films tell the story of children's innocence can save the world, while Takahata Isao is more realistic, talking about the beauty of innocence and the pain of growing up.
In the film, Isao Takahata always portrays civet cats as extremely cute, even if he imitates human beings to carry out sabotage activities, engage in five-year plans, violent revolutions and conservative reforms... Takahata Isao here even made me see a little bit of Oshii Mamoru's shadow. , plus a lot of sophistication and bad taste. But just as the old civet cat once said that without innocence, it is not a civet cat, so they always start singing and dancing again like a group of children after a while. Takahata Xun has never been stingy with the portrayal of the beauty of innocence in his films. Perhaps he also thinks that without innocence, he is not a complete person. Therefore, in the last part of the film, when the civet cats cast illusions, the people living in the city I also called my mother to run to the wilderness, and the fields here are undoubtedly a symbol of returning to nature and returning to childhood.
However, Takahata Xun also showed in the movie how out of place innocence is for fireworks in the world. In Kaguya's Story, Kaguya came to the mortal world to suffer, and the director arranged for her to suffer the most, which is to force her to adapt to growth and the fireworks after a brief experience of the beauty of innocence. All kinds of pain. In the story of the civet cats, the cuteness of the civet cats and the grandeur of the ghosts at night undoubtedly form a very sharp contrast with the scene where the civet cats who have no ability to transform can only choose to sing and dance in the river. The other civet cats either live in the cracks of the city, or become human and infiltrate the human society. Although they are unwilling, they have no choice.
But what is interesting is that Takahata Xun also gave the answer to this question: Although he can no longer be a tanuki in the forest, although he misses the life in the field very much; but the nature of the tanuki is optimistic, and Kaguya also spent time just thinking about it. When you wake up, you can't help but cry a happy life, so try your best to spend this short life. Sure enough, existentialism is the real taste of modern society hahaha.
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