My Neighbour Totoro - at home, huddled round the telly!
24th April, 2006 - (Monday)
Today I finally managed to buy a copy of an anime film recommended to me nearly two years ago now by a friend on a forum I live in.
My Neighbour Totoro - I had seen all the lovely fluffy toys for absolutely ages but the dvd seemed out of reach (pricewise) Saw it in Glasgow at the weekend but still thought it was a bit too much. Anyway, today I found it in town and almost raced home to my little one, and two lovely, not so little ones, big grin on my face!
We had our tea and settled in front of the telly, the room with filled with bright eyes, and ahhhh's. Ghibli has this wonderful talent of capturing every special emotion there is around:
... of a young girl - heavily plodding along the path, determination set upon her face as she follows the wispy like timid wee white bunny type creature, as it checks it's feet and tries to disappear out of reach.
... the shyness of a young boy with the new girl in town, who runs to hide, pretends he doesn't care for girls, cannot speak, but becomes her friend in her hour of need.
Totoro himself ... the huge towering bunny like creature with a grin that will melt your heart ... he stands nervous below an umbrella offered up by the older sister Satsuki, (who is really a little nervous of believing in such a large creature) at the bus stop as a single drip off a tree hits it and makes a noise, suddenly he has a thought, and his eyes get bigger and his wide grin so big you think his face is going to explode with joy and he takes a leap into the air and the whole tree, earth shakes to allow a valley of raindrops fall...
The Japanese language - so sharp and beautiful - please don't turn off the subtitles to hear the English version!
I could sit and watch this film, over and over ... it captures so many emotions and hopes. ...
What touches me most about this film is how it conveys that there are times in our lives when we need to escape ... the two young girls are worried about their mother who is sick in hospital and each week drags by, each week they hope she will be home soon, ... Totoro is their hope, their refuge, where they feel safe and know things will be alright eventually, no matter what.
Today I finally managed to buy a copy of an anime film recommended to me nearly two years ago now by a friend on a forum I live in.
My Neighbour Totoro - I had seen all the lovely fluffy toys for absolutely ages but the dvd seemed out of reach (pricewise) Saw it in Glasgow at the weekend but still thought it was a bit too much. Anyway, today I found it in town and almost raced home to my little one, and two lovely, not so little ones, big grin on my face!
We had our tea and settled in front of the telly, the room with filled with bright eyes, and ahhhh's. Ghibli has this wonderful talent of capturing every special emotion there is around:
... of a young girl - heavily plodding along the path, determination set upon her face as she follows the wispy like timid wee white bunny type creature, as it checks it's feet and tries to disappear out of reach.
... the shyness of a young boy with the new girl in town, who runs to hide, pretends he doesn't care for girls, cannot speak, but becomes her friend in her hour of need.
Totoro himself ... the huge towering bunny like creature with a grin that will melt your heart ... he stands nervous below an umbrella offered up by the older sister Satsuki, (who is really a little nervous of believing in such a large creature) at the bus stop as a single drip off a tree hits it and makes a noise, suddenly he has a thought, and his eyes get bigger and his wide grin so big you think his face is going to explode with joy and he takes a leap into the air and the whole tree, earth shakes to allow a valley of raindrops fall...
The Japanese language - so sharp and beautiful - please don't turn off the subtitles to hear the English version!
I could sit and watch this film, over and over ... it captures so many emotions and hopes. ...
What touches me most about this film is how it conveys that there are times in our lives when we need to escape ... the two young girls are worried about their mother who is sick in hospital and each week drags by, each week they hope she will be home soon, ... Totoro is their hope, their refuge, where they feel safe and know things will be alright eventually, no matter what.
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