Seeing that the characters in the film actually use mobile phones, I feel amazing, and it is actually a work that is nearly 2010.
I liked the bridge where my father took Arietti to the kitchen to "borrow something". Ordinary human kitchens were actually photographed by Miyazaki as a sense of danger in the wild plains of the American West, the Amazon jungle and the Grand Canyon of Africa.
In fact, humans are friendly to the "dwarfs" to which the Arietti family belongs, and they even customized a villa for the Arieti family from England, equipped with all the furniture and all the necessities of life. The housekeeper's aunt Chun, despite her abominable appearance, did not hurt Arietti's mother after catching her, but carefully put her into a glass bottle as her own booty.
But the "Little Dwarves" decided to stick to their old creed — once discovered by humans, they would move their families to new places.
Why? Quite simply, because if they accept the kindness of humanity, they will lose their most precious freedom. They are too weak to make equal contracts with humans, they will henceforth live under the mercy of human beings, their fate depends on the mood of human beings, and they will also lose the pleasure of exploration and "borrowing things"...
Freedom, too important! Freedom is no less important than security and life. Therefore, during the French Revolution, there was a deafening slogan: If you are not free, you would rather die!
The metaphor for the film is: Are humans also borrowing things from the dwarfs and living under the eyes of species they don't know, such as nature, or more advanced, mysterious alien life? Isn't it ridiculous that humans are smug and think they are in control?
Finally, the Arieti family packed up and embarked on an uncertain migration journey, using a teapot abandoned by humans as a boat, sailing along a meandering "river" into the distance, tragic and hopeful, reminiscent of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt!