In 1988, when this film was born, I was in the first grade of elementary school. When I finally got to see its true face, it was 2020, a full 32 years late. But for my 5-year-old son, who is now sitting on my lap watching this movie with me, it's just the right time. This is the original sound version. My son is young, illiterate, and does not understand Japanese. However, as long as my simple explanation is required, my son watches it with gusto and yells. After reading it, two days later, he shouted that he wanted the second episode of "My Neighbor Totoro". Well, then watch it again! So I accompanied him again and watched "My Neighbor Totoro" again, but my son still watched it with relish and danced. After watching it, he said: "Dad, what about the second episode of My Neighbor Totoro?" "There is no second episode, it's over, it's a movie." I don't know what this classic cartoon projected in the heart of my five-year-old son , Maybe the son likes the chubby and cute chinchilla, envy the chinchilla's free flying, easy blowing, and slumbering, or admire the multi-legged chinchilla bus's flying eaves. Of course, what my son has in mind is just my personal guess. Maybe many years later, when he is as old as me, when he looks back on "My Neighbor Totoro", he will read more about the warmth of sitting on my lap. I feel very sorry that I couldn't watch "My Neighbor Totoro" in that era. Of course, there are many regrets in my life. For example, in the post-1980s, I have incomplete memories of many cartoons, such as "Astro Boy", "Deformed Steel", "Dinosaur Special Warfare", etc. What is the reason? Because there was no TV at home since I was a child, I didn't have the opportunity to watch it. Also, for the influence of music, I am also incomplete. I remember when I was in elementary school, I could listen to a song once, but I didn't have the chance to listen to it. Because I don't have a tape recorder or tape at home. I remember when I was in the fourth and fifth grade of elementary school, I heard a song on TV by chance with the lyrics "My love, naked..." I was surprised! And such a cool song! Many years later, I learned that the person who sang this song, Zheng Jun, was a big rock star in China. I was thinking, if I had the conditions to have more exposure to rock music at that time, would I have become a later rock master? Of course, it's all just assumptions. However, after I thought about it clearly, I realized that although I watched "My Neighbor Totoro" late, I had no regrets. Because in the movie, those beautiful pictures of idyllic scenery, those warm family love, those magical myths and legends, all these most moving elements are almost a replica of my childhood life! On the contrary, I think my son is a bit pitiful. Although he can watch this movie completely at such a young age, the most moving element in the movie is getting further and further away from his life. Isn't this sad? Yes, when I was young, I wanted to watch cartoons, it was difficult. However, the life at that time, thinking about it now, is the warmest cartoon, a realistic version of "My Neighbor Totoro". In the ravine of my hometown, green is always overwhelming, fields, ponds, small bridges, streams, local dogs, domestic cats, white noodles (a small animal like a civet cat), these are the basic elements of the huge landscape painting in my hometown. At that time, my father always told me all kinds of stories. He used the mud to pinch me birds while digging the pond mud. My sister accompanied me to school and took me to the field to dig Jingli (a kind of wild grass with thick roots, which is edible. ), smoked wheat sausages (a kind of weed, edible spikes extracted), hide-and-seek, and also bicker and quarrel, just like Satsuki and Xiaomei. There are also myths and legends like chinchillas in my hometown - the nanny, the nanny's tits are three feet long and can be thrown directly from the chest to the back to let you breastfeed. "My Neighbor Totoro" is not supremely rich in imagination, and its plot advancement is not to mention complicated and tortuous. Its most brilliant point is that it digs deeply into the emotional warmth of ordinary people's ordinary life, so as to arouse the deep resonance of ordinary people. This is a great work. The greatness of , as the so-called, is great because of the ordinary. I feel that I have no regrets in my life, and I also hope that my son will have no regrets in his future life. It is time to spend more time with him. 2020.4.02
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