I'm not the only one crying over it

Adelbert 2022-03-22 09:02:30

Many of Miyazaki's animations highlight "environmental awareness". There have also been many times at the expense of spending a lot of money to highlight or highlight the strengths and weaknesses of human nature and at the same time to express "man and nature must be in harmony!"

However, in addition to "Grave of the Fireflies", "Heisei Tanaka War" is the only one. A Ghibli animation that made me cry.

These Japanese civet cats (actually raccoon dogs) live a very lively life of struggle, but in the end they still cannot resist the development of human civilization. What is this? In the end, they can only abandon their past lives, let the stone statues enshrined in front of the temple be covered with moss like foxes, and disguise themselves into the human world (whether it is true or false, whoever is still discussing this issue at this time should be dragged out TJJTDS).

So I got wet.

Not for those ideas that can be seen as a sigh of "the withering of traditional culture" or "the green hills in memory will never return", but only for the changes these Japanese civet cats have to make to survive. When A-Chun threw off his office worker's coat and ran to his long-lost companion crying and laughing, the salty water in his eyes finally burst out.

I don't care if someone laughs at me, I just cried.

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Extended Reading
  • Bonnie 2022-03-16 09:01:06

    (8/10) "Various Tanuki" and "Attack on Giant" essentially tell the same story, but under the appearance of the children's style of "Various Tanuki", it is far more realistic and cruel than "Giant". More cold and deeper, the "earth sounds" launched by the protagonists are actually just "the Lord doesn't care" in the eyes of the enemy (human beings). Living space, in the end, can only survive in the cracks, thinking of the beautiful green mountains and green waters in a phantom of memories created by myself. In contrast, "Giant" is actually full of secondary school, and throws a good topic, but it also describes "eliminating all mankind" too trivially, falling into the cliché that the protagonist has the "secret secret weapon of ancestors". , You must know that Hitler was organized, disciplined, using modern technology, and with the strong assistance of many countries (including France and the Soviet Union), did not exterminate the Jews, but in the anime Ailian threw a few ancestral giants, Norman A few drops of potion in a rural laboratory can destroy the entire civilization with the highest technology at the time. It's not so easy to "destroy the world".

  • Athena 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    The reason for the 4 stars is because in the end, I thought of a dog-blood ending. The civet cat that became a human is incompatible with human society, and it is not accepted by the primitive civet cat group. . .

Pom Poko quotes

  • Gonta: What good did it do? You idiots. You think that will stop the developers? Don't just frighten them. We need to hurt them. Inflict some serious pain!

    [He makes an emphatic gesture with his arm. He stops and winces, then doubles over in pain]

  • Tanuki: [singing and carrying Gonta] Moon, moon, moon shine bright, moon shine bright, so bright and long/ Shine, shine, shine on Gonta, pom poko pom pom, pom pom pom/

    OshoOroku: [singing] You showed the world what we can do, now

    Front crowd of Tanuki: [chanting] We have the greatness of Oroku, too!

    Tanuki: [singing] All our friends are cheering for you/ That's the truth, we adore you/ Hail to Gonta, he's our god!/ Pom poko, pom pom, pom pom pom!

    Newsreader: [as the Tanuki chant Gonta's name in the background] ... Nevertheless, a government spokesman stressed that the people of Tokyo are in such desperate need of living accomodations, that the new Tama development project will not be delayed, despite today's tragic accidents.

    [the tanuki stop celebrating and drop Gonta in surprise. They rush towards the TV, trampling Gonta in the process]

    Newsreader: I repeat...

    Narrator: It was, needless to say, an unfortunate accident. Gonta, the mastermind behind the dangerous attacks against the humans, now suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries, that would take nearly a year to heal.