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The mother of the two little girls in "My Neighbor Totoro" is always in the hospital, and her face can be painted beautifully. This face is not cartoony enough. It usually looks like a real person. It probably has a prototype. This is not a story told by an adult to a child, but more like an adult's remembrance of a lost childhood. During this process, the adult is also happy. He was not asked by the child to tell a story, nor did he feel the need to tell a story. To educate children, he himself has this kind of request, he needs such memory, which is full of fun, first of all, his own fun. Maybe it's still a failure story for kids. I had intentionally let my nephew watch Hayao Miyazaki's animation, after watching it for a while, I left, and when I came back, he had changed to another channel. He likes to watch cartoons full of fights, Pokémon, Dragon Ball or something, and worse.

"My Neighbor Totoro" is a cartoon with a bland plot. There are not many elements of whimsy. The big Chinchilla is only a hundred times bigger than the little Chinchilla. Only the Totoro bus is a bit outrageous. How can it be so outrageous? It's like seeing a child being naughty. Every time it appears, he has to laugh. This imagination is so whimsical that it is childish. There is also the scene where the planted acorns grow into big trees overnight. Children are especially impatient. This kind of mood is understandable. When the big chinchilla appeared at the station, two little girls Waiting for my father who hasn't come for a long time, it was a really bad time, and the big Totoro appeared out of nowhere, and he was also waiting for the car. Almost all whims come at the most helpless moment. Is it the most helpless situation that gave birth to imagination, isn't it? At this time, let’s face each other and smile. This is an adult thinking about his lost childhood, and all the unsatisfactory things are made up in his imagination, so the most helpless moment becomes the most lyrical moment because of whimsy. I also had a moment when I missed my mother and couldn't do anything. I watched two little girls ride on the Totoro shuttle to the tree outside the window of my mother's ward, and they flew back again. Those childhood lovesicknesses emerged from the bottom of my heart, and the folds of anxiety were still there. , Haven't thought about flying to the mother's side at such a moment, most of them were exhausted from lovesickness, and sobbed into sleep with tears. Many, many years have passed, and the folds are forgotten along with the cloth, but it is still there, and it is finally turned over and smoothed out in one fell swoop.

March 27

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