Preface
"Some things are invisible, like the wind, but when it blows, we all feel its warmth. In 1988, the anime "My Neighbor Totoro" was released in Japan, although 35 years have passed since now, but even so, netizens who have watched it can't help but sigh that childhood dependence.
If we show our childhood again, we will laugh first, then cry loudly, and finally fall asleep with tears and smiles, each of which grows up little by little from childhood, through childhood, childhood, adulthood, old age and finally leaving the world.
遇见
The movie revolves around two little girls, Satsuki and Mei, and the story begins with a move, where Satsuki and Mei's mother needs to stay in the hospital for a long time due to tuberculosis, so their father decides to take them to live in the countryside for a while.
Since no one lives in it all year round, their home looks very dilapidated, like a "haunted house", even the children in the village call it a haunted house, but Satsuki and Xiaomei do not feel afraid, but are more excited than their father, running around the house.
Hayao Miyazaki's anime is generally closer to children's ideas, and indulges in the imagination of the enemy in the anime, unlike many anime films, which are detached from the child's innocence, but are described with adult thinking, so that the content of the anime should be lost.
Xiaomei is still psychologically immature due to her young age, standing in a room without light and being darkened, she is still a little afraid, but looking at her sister, brave and strong heart, she is no longer afraid, on the contrary, she feels that only her sister is by her side, and she is not afraid of anything.
Satsuki, who came down from the attic, was startled by the neighbor's grandmother and hurriedly hid behind her sister, which is enough to see the delicacy of Miyazaki's portrayal of the child's heart.
In addition to human beauty, Hayao Miyazaki's picture sense is very good, it can be said that no one has surpassed it so far, pure and infectious.
In his animations, there will always be blue skies and white clouds, green meadows, old-fashioned houses, grandmothers, children and sci-fi characters, such as Totoro, Totoro who can fulfill any wish of children.
The anime has delicate pictures and is very decent for the characters, otherwise there is no anime that can compare with "My Neighbor Totoro".
After several hours of cleaning, the house was finally cleaned, and several people sent away the grandmother who was cleaning together, and the house also ushered in the first wisp of cooking smoke.
Such a scene cannot help but remind people that rural life is like this, the sun rises and the sun sets, the family rests early, and the dust in the house, that is, the coal worm, sets out on the road to find the next home.
The tired people rested early, and from then on, a pleasant country life was opened.
The next day, Xiaoyue and Xiaomei accompanied their father to see their hospitalized mother, and the old father rode a bicycle with his two daughters and shuttled through the country road, and the villagers who were working in the farmland greeted them very friendly.
Although it's just a simple greeting action, it's not difficult to see from the side that Miyazaki understands the habits of rural life and simplicity, and people in the village will be very enthusiastic when they meet each other if they've eaten, what are you going to do, even if it's a polite word, they will greet each other.
But the people who live in the city, even if they live across the street, or their neighbors don't know anyone, and this kind of neighborly intimacy has long been gone.
Otherwise, Hayao Miyazaki's anime seems to be from a child's point of view, and from a deep analysis, the people in it are sophisticated, and children's friendships can be established by meeting each other.
Kan Tai is the grandson of the old grandmother, and he was not kind at first, when he came to give gifts, he put down his things and turned around and ran, and said loudly to Xiaomei before leaving: "Your house is a big haunted house." "It's not polite to say that.
Gradually, he also developed a good impression of Satsuki, watching Satsuki sit behind his father's bicycle seat and making a grimace to mock her, he would also stare at Satsuki during class, and give her her umbrella to Satsuki when it rained, he was not good at expressing himself or communicating with others, but he always helped Satsuki silently behind his back.
Because Dad went the wrong way, the time to see Mom became longer, and after arriving at the hospital, Satsuki complained to Mom, looking at Dad on the side and smiling badly, unconsciously let the people watching find that this simple complaint is happiness.
Satsuki's father is not like other fathers, majestic and tall, or very serious, not good at expressing fatherly love, he is a father who understands the inner thoughts of his children, and when Satsuki and Mei are afraid, he will tell the two children that as long as they laugh, terrible things will run out.
The next day, Dad works at home, Xiaoyue, who is in the fourth grade, goes to school, while Xiaomei plays at home, a family of three, each with its own tasks and things to do.
The child's spirit was very strong, Xiaomei would catch tadpoles for a while, and run around the yard for a while, and when she was playing in the yard, she saw a little white chinchilla, and she followed her.
The little chinchilla was very curious, this little girl was able to see herself, in order to cause unnecessary trouble, she chose to be invisible, who knew that Xiaomei did not give up, but through their dropped acorns, through the bushes, found a big chinchilla who was sleeping.
The two fell asleep after playing for a while, and it wasn't until her sister Xiaoyue found Xiaomei after school that she told her sister about her experience.
In order to be able to find the big chinchilla, the two searched in the bushes for a long time but couldn't find it, and the two went home and told their father about it, and his father was not disappointed, telling her that she was very lucky to meet the owner of the forest.
Children's innocence is like this, they always have wild ideas when they are young, but they will be homogenized when they reach a certain age, but the world with Totoro is different.
My Neighbor Totoro's expression always looks dumbfounded, but in fact it is the god who guards the forest, and when Miyazaki set up this character, he deliberately made his two eyes out of focus, so that his two eyes looked round and smooth, looking very dazed and not a little troubled.
My neighbor totoro looks very cute and fluffy, but the weird cat bus looks like it gives people a more terrifying feeling, because it rains when Satsuki and Mei are waiting for the bus, they meet Totoro again, this is the first time Satsuki has met Totoro, but she is not afraid, on the contrary, she gives him her umbrella.
At night, the three chinchillas came to the place where Satsuki and Mei planted acorns, doing strange movements, after Satsuki was woken up, she woke up Mei and ran over together, and then did strange moves with Totoro, Totoro also took them through the trees together, standing on top of the highest tree and overlooking the whole village.
The next day, Xiaomei and Xiaoyue ran together to plant acorns and looked at the sprouted seedlings, knowing that yesterday was not a dream, but real.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Xiaoyue and Xiaomei helped the grandmother pick the fruit together, and the mother-in-law was still saying that eating the corn she planted would be healthy, which was a telegram from Kantai, saying that it was a telegram from the hospital, but the father was at work, and in order to call his father, he learned that his mother was ill.
Xiaomei hugged the corn and quarreled with Xiaoyue, wanting to let her mother come back, which was also the first time the two quarreled, so Xiaoyue ran home in a fit of anger, leaving Xiaomei crying alone.
Xiaomei didn't know what it meant when her mother's illness worsened at a young age, she only knew that her mother could eat the corn in her hand, and the illness would be cured, and then she went to the hospital alone.
Because of guilt, Satsuki looked for Xiaomei everywhere, and in the end she was desperate and had no choice but to ask Totoro for help, but fortunately, with Totoro's help, Satsuki found Xiaomei and sent the corn to her mother's bedside.
epilogue
"My Neighbor Totoro" is a movie full of science fiction, in the world of Totoro, nature is beautiful, human emotions are real, coupled with Miyazaki's admiration for sound effects, people have a sense of sound immersion, get an unprecedented beautiful visual enjoyment, but also let the audience watching the film sublimation.
When you and I were in childhood, when we encountered difficulties, we would like to have a "pet" like Totoro appear in our hearts to help us overcome difficulties and accompany us.