Take bean sprouts to see "My Neighbor Totoro".
For this film, I started looking forward to it two months ago.
After the screening, he found that there is no Chinese dubbed version in the nearby theaters, but Bean Sprout does not know a few words, and watching the Japanese version will lose a lot of fun for him...
Finally, Dad found a small theater, and there was a Chinese version showing at 6:30 pm, which was just right.
After 5 o'clock, I picked up sweaty bean sprouts from kindergarten. The three of them went to eat KFC together, and then went upstairs to watch a movie.
Before that, Bean Sprouts had only seen "Peter Rabbit" in the cinema.
We watched The Incredibles 1 and 2 together for "Monthly Family Movie Night" that started two months ago.
Bean sprouts love this quintessentially American story: despite the ups and downs, the good guys are always strong enough to stop the bad guys at the last minute and save the world.
Psychologists say that children like to read Superman stories because the imagination of superpowers can soothe their anxiety caused by their own inadequacies in various aspects.
Think about it too, a child is born and even needs to learn to feed and sleep.
Seeing that others can walk around, but he can't even turn over.
I was able to turn over with difficulty, but I couldn't even sit still.
I remember when my sister was a few months old, I tied her to the baby chair, and she kept her eyes fixed on her brother who was running around, dancing her limbs hard, her face full of longing.
She was finally able to walk away with her help, she climbed up the slide by herself at the first time, laughed "giggling", and slid down on her stomach. The hem of her clothes was all rolled up, and her belly was against the cool slide, but it did not affect her enjoyment of freedom. Feeling.
After learning how to go down the stairs, every time you go down the stairs, the younger sister will raise her small fist and shout: "Tired!"
In this way, I walked down the second floor and shouted "tiredness" dozens of times to cheer myself up.
"I can, I can do it, I can do it."
This is the most basic sense of control over life that children gradually acquire as they grow up.
The younger sister in "My Neighbor Totoro" is the same energetic and beautiful girl as my younger sister.
When my sister went to the river to fetch water, she shouted, "People are going too!"
At night, when I heard the whistling wind, I was obviously very scared, but said with a puffed face: "People are not afraid!"
When it rained heavily, I fell down, and my face was covered in mud. My sister wiped her face and said to herself, "Isn't it great that people didn't cry?"
I don't know if it was because of having two children, especially a sister of the same style, my tears couldn't stop.
I really want to pick up that puffy little girl and say to her:
Yes, you are really great too!
If it is a particularly happy family with such energetic children, you will feel at ease.
Sometimes, I envy: With such good parents and such a safe and secure life, children will feel so secure!
But what "My Neighbor Totoro" is about to tell is not such a story of a quiet time and a stable world.
The movie begins with the family moving.
It can be seen from the clothes and the furniture that have been brought in that this is an intellectual family.
Later the story told us that my father was a teacher who taught at a university in Tokyo.
It can also be seen from her sister's dress and demeanor that this is a child who grew up in the city.
The country boy blushed nervously when he glanced at her.
Why do such a family do not live in Tokyo, but move to a remote country, in a dilapidated "haunted house" that seems to be collapsing soon?
Because my mother was sick in the hospital, I couldn't go home for a long time.
The story doesn't say anything about the mother's illness, because the story unfolds from the child's point of view.
We only found out later that what they told my sister was that my mother had a cold.
But you won't be hospitalized if you catch a cold.
If you catch a cold, your family will not be able to afford a house in the city and have to move to the country.
Children are often confused about what is going on in the adult world. They just instinctively feel that something is wrong.
It's just that something's wrong isn't very obvious, especially at the beginning of the story, it's not that strong yet.
After all everything looks fine:
Although the new home is dilapidated, there are many interesting things happening. For example, there are many dust elves hiding in the empty house.
The environment in the countryside is also full of freshness. The cucumbers, tomatoes and corn grown by my mother-in-law, I heard that eating them can become healthy.
The neighbors here are also warm and lovely, and even the nasty country boys who can tease girls will throw an umbrella coolly when it rains.
Also, when my sister went on an adventure, she actually met the owner of the forest, the big chinchilla!
Although it's a pity that I haven't seen my sister, but this is a happy thing after all! Such a big chinchilla!
Most importantly, when I went to the hospital to see my mother, I felt much better.
The adults also said that my mother would be home soon.
"That's great! I'm going to sleep with mom!" my sister cheered while sitting on my dad's bicycle beam.
I couldn't hold back the tears.
The dust elf, the kind and hard-working mother-in-law, the cold-hearted neighbor boy, and even the big chinchilla, it's all too good.
However, if there is no mother, the joy is always accompanied by regret.
My sister has already prepared lunch boxes for the family.
The younger sister is also very independent, carrying a small lunch box on her own to explore, without disturbing her father's work at all.
Both of these kids are very sensible.
However, because there is no mother, these sensible people are distressing.
My sister wrote all the happy things in a letter and sent it to my mother.
The younger sister picked corn from her mother-in-law's field. A sheep seemed to think the corn in her arms was delicious. The younger sister shouted fiercely to the sheep, "It's not for you! It's for mom!"
It's for mom.
Go to bed with mom.
mother……
But my mother, who always said she was coming back, couldn't come back again.
A telegram came from the hospital, and Dad hurried to the hospital.
The sisters are going to spend the night at home by themselves.
"My mother...will she die..."
That little unease finally spread into a huge mushroom cloud.
The optimistic and strong sister threw herself into her mother-in-law's arms and cried loudly.
The energetic little sister left quietly by herself and wanted to walk to the hospital to see her mother.
That's a three-hour journey for adults.
A four-year-old girl, why dare to go so far?
Because she really misses her mother so much...
No matter how independent, sensible, and full of energy, she is only a four-year-old girl.
Dad went to lecture, sister went to school, she could only follow her mother-in-law.
My mother-in-law is very good, but she still misses her family...
It's fine even if I'm huddled in the school with my sister...
The climax of the story happens when the younger sister gets lost.
My sister was running around looking for my sister. The whole village was mobilized.
The mother-in-law thought that the sandals in the pond belonged to her sister, so she was so scared that she called someone to salvage it, and she kept chanting Buddha by the side.
After my sister heard about it, she ran back in astonishment, and the moment she saw the sandals, she seemed to have collapsed:
"These shoes... are not Xiaomei's."
But where did my sister go?
This time, Totoro appeared again. It called the cat bus, and flew away with its sister, a dozen big plush claws ran wildly.
When the forest is separated, the high-voltage power lines can also become highways, all the difficulties and obstacles become insignificant in an instant, and the cat bus is invincible.
In the face of the great despair of reality, superpower has always been the last consolation for children.
I remembered that psychologists also said that when we really can't satisfy our children, we can try to satisfy them in our imagination.
"If only there were an entire room full of balloons!"
Bean sprouts wanted a lot of balloons when he was a child. As long as I kept saying this sentence, he would slowly calm down.
"If only there was a big castle with all balloons in it!"
At this time, he began to be in a trance, as if he had seen a castle full of balloons.
"If only I could fall asleep holding a balloon in the Balloon Castle..."
Thinking like this, he would slowly get content and slowly fall asleep.
"If only there was a chinchilla," or, as I used to think when I was a kid, "if there was a robot cat," seemed to have more magic than a castle full of balloons.
There are some things, even just thinking about it, that bring back courage.
Isn't this as miraculous as the existence of giant chinchillas in this world?
At the end of the story, the mother still did not come home.
The cat bus took Satsuki and Xiaomei to the hospital and saw their father and mother.
Mom looks healthy.
Dad didn't look too worried.
The two chatted and laughed, talking about the mother getting better soon and going home to hug the baby more.
"Xiaoyue's child is too sensible, it makes people feel distressed."
"Isn't that what life is like? It's bitter first and then sweet."
The children happily rode the cat bus home, and the sister left the corn on the mother's windowsill.
The movie ended, and the children who followed their parents to watch the movie also went home happily.
I asked Bean Sprout, "Is there anything in this movie that made you feel scared or sad?"
He said, "No! Always happy!"
My tears fell again. It's always been fun, but it's really nice.
Because life doesn't have to be bittersweet.
"My Neighbor Totoro" is the work of Hayao Miyazaki.
This white-haired and white-bearded grandfather also had tuberculosis when his mother was very young.
With limited medical conditions, tuberculosis was a terminal illness at the time.
The germs invaded the mother's spinal cord, making it difficult for her to walk upright, let alone hug him.
For nine years, his mother was bedridden.
Later, although my mother gradually got better, the lack of hugs from my mother in childhood and the constant worry of "my mother will die" were forever imprinted in this old grandpa's heart.
Therefore, this old grandfather described his attachment to his mother in his various works throughout his life.
In "My Neighbor Totoro", Satsuki and Xiaomei's mother also seems to have tuberculosis.
In "Princess Goldfish on the Cliff", Granny Chen was in a wheelchair with limited mobility, but she miraculously stood up and hugged Sosuke in the end.
I don't know how many times I announced her retirement in the finale "The Wind Rises", the heroine saw Nahoko died of tuberculosis.
There are many hardships in life, not necessarily bittersweet.
But there are moments when we are satisfied and comforted by the soft belly of the chinchilla and fall asleep.
There were also moments when we seemed to be able to get on the cat bus, and the roughness under our feet suddenly turned into a smooth stream.
Mom still hasn't come back.
But the acorns planted in the land really sprouted.
There are also Satsuki and Xiaomei, who will really grow up.
Finally, one day, even if my mother is really gone, I can continue to live happily.
That is really grown up.
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