In My Neighbor Totoro, Mei and Satsuki Kusakabe explore the wild woods and let their imaginations run wild. Seeing magical creatures like a kind majestic beast, to a cat bus that has headlights as eyes seems too surreal. The movie takes you to a whole new world where you can find adventure through the eyes of two imaginative girls. Director, Hayao Miyazaki made this anime movie one of the best children’s movie I’ve ever seen. This movie had so many different morals behind it. The first moral I caught onto was how different everything can be moving from a more city-like location, to a more farm town home. There are so many everyday living situations you would perform differently on a farm than you would in the city; such as, fetching your own
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Kanta, the young boy that lent the girls his umbrella, in the beginning of the movie, would barely even speak a word to them. You could tell he was extremely shy and didn’t have many manners towards anyone for that matter. By the end of the movie, he was helping Satsuki find Mei when she was lost and was even laughing and smiling with Satsuki in the finishing clip of the movie. Another character that changed drastically throughout the duration of the movie was Granny. Mei was almost frightened by her when she first met her, hiding behind Satsuki. However, throughout the movie you could tell the children almost looked up to Granny as a grandmother and Granny looked at the two young girls as her very own. Granny showed tremendous love for the children through her actions, always taking care of Mei for Satsuki when she didn’t have the time. Or even when Mei was lost, the fear that washed over Granny’s face after finding the little girl’s sandal in the lake was as if Mei belonged entirely to Granny. Situations can really cause people to come together and help each other out. The whole entire town set out to help look for Mei, a little girl most of them didn’t even know. That makes me realize how we sometimes lose that trait of helping others in today’s time because we all get too tied up in our own lives to care about anyone
Kanta, the young boy that lent the girls his umbrella, in the beginning of the movie, would barely even speak a word to them. You could tell he was extremely shy and didn’t have many manners towards anyone for that matter. By the end of the movie, he was helping Satsuki find Mei when she was lost and was even laughing and smiling with Satsuki in the finishing clip of the movie. Another character that changed drastically throughout the duration of the movie was Granny. Mei was almost frightened by her when she first met her, hiding behind Satsuki. However, throughout the movie you could tell the children almost looked up to Granny as a grandmother and Granny looked at the two young girls as her very own. Granny showed tremendous love for the children through her actions, always taking care of Mei for Satsuki when she didn’t have the time. Or even when Mei was lost, the fear that washed over Granny’s face after finding the little girl’s sandal in the lake was as if Mei belonged entirely to Granny. Situations can really cause people to come together and help each other out. The whole entire town set out to help look for Mei, a little girl most of them didn’t even know. That makes me realize how we sometimes lose that trait of helping others in today’s time because we all get too tied up in our own lives to care about anyone