Totoro & 5 Best Things In The Movie

Totoro & 5 Best Things In The Movie

Totoro is one of the movies that I keep neatly on the shelf and countless times I've seen it just to admire it. I do not know how many times I want to review it but always missed. No one dismisses if there are many specials from the 1988 film release of the great work of Hayao Miyazaki and his legendary studio, Ghibli . But there are five things that make me favorite of this animation, the subject which also makes Totoro not only as a slick film seen from various aspects but also so much influence in Japan to make the movie lovers momentarily forget Doraemon or Son-Goku .

Elegant Local Honesty

Totoro is a beautiful fantasy movie. Fun, soothing. No striking plot or images of kindness or character crime are presented with sharpness. Everything was aired honestly as a line of Miyazaki's fictional characters. From Tatsuo 's father , Mei and Satsuki .

They are ordinary people, cheerful and symbolize humility without aling-aling moving to a quiet village with rice fields, vegetables and forest. Where local Japanese wisdom is presented intelligently without explaining the details or rituals of persecution for the audience. Everything is endemic. Native , naive and honest in his life and dream, once again without the detail and complexity to confuse the audiences of the child. At least, I think there are five things that become interesting points in this movie. Five things also make it up there as one of the best animations of all time.

Simplicity in a Scale

I'm not going to talk about what an implicit gem she's got. Such a poetry is so intelligent that it immediately makes the reader capture all sentence energy without having to read it over and over again. Tonari no Totoro too. Present without the antagonist and all the characters seem to be worthy of being the protagonist, though there is no visible surplus that stands out or draws from them all. Likewise  Mei and Satsuke are simple bebocah, unencumbered with the play to defeat evil wizards or the mission of saving the world.

This is the simplicity that becomes more value, presented unique on a small rural scale and similarly small cases typical of children's kecerian. We will not encounter the complexity of the ideas presented in Spirited Away or Nausicaa and The Secret World of Arriety . There is only Totoro with his dance-growing trees, or the famous silence scene in May and Satsuki waiting for his father to come at a bus stop in the woods. With frogs that relax under the rain.

Fantasy Independent

The names Miyazaki and Ghibli are separate entities, this is absolute. As long as we keep watching Disney or Pixar, we will continue to be treated with the same formula and pattern of how cartoons should start and end. Or grip the Dungeons & Dragons if the audience also plays the game. This outline becomes an American fantasy convention. But Ghibli has their own world independence, with original color and style.

They do not need the rules of Hans Christian Andersen , nor the magical Japanese magma itself. In Totoro everything looks original. If they want a ghost they create their own ghost description, they want a bus, the audience will get a fifteen-footed cat-shaped bus that slightly reminds us of the cat in Alice in Wonderland .

Calm Color and Visual

Until some time, Miyazaki decided to use watercolor in every movie. Until automatic coloring through the computer takes over. But precisely this simple coloring is the main key to Totoro's cinematography to be calm and soothing and equally beautiful when compared to Howl's Moving Castle or The Secret World of Arriety. Only, we do not find conflicts and social chaos as in both titles. All colors are explained from the perspective, happiness and exploration of a 3-year-old child.

Magical Realism of the Protagonist

Mei and Satsuke do not have to distinguish where dreams, fantasies or the reality of their lives. They are kits in the middle of a field that enjoys the wind blowing from any side. And the audience does not need to sort out which they are trying to understand.

We just need to enjoy the rice fields, rivers and trees as well as how May and Satsuki enjoy a supersonic trip with their Cat Bus. Or hang on to Totoro's stomach as the friendly monsters climb the clouds with their umbrellas and their tops. Is this a Miyazaki trick to bring magical elements into reality in the movie just so the audience gets to study the philosophical films? I do not think so.

Tonari no Totoro is classic since the first day of the film is released and will still be a classic with the increasing age and animation man-made animation. Enjoying it is by paying attention to the kindergarten that requires mystical and imaginary pleasures, and it is futile if for example we are trying to learn every sign drawn by Miyazaki in this film just to prove Totoro has a negative hidden intent. At the end we know this is not Disney.