My Neighbor Totoro

JoAnna Carraway Professor Childs English 1301 26 Feb. 2013 My live Totoro Movie Review My Neighbor Totoro is a Japanese base childrens film animated in the 1980s written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. This word picture was different from American films. There is no combat or bickering among the characters. The movie is based on devil sisters and their gravel who moved to a raw(a) town to be closer to their mom who is ill and in a hospital nearby. The girls father hires the neighbor as in the raw babysitter whom they have never met before.In this film the Japanese glossiness is very different from American society today, but very inspiring and enjoyable for its young viewers. The two sisters Satsuki who is the obsolescentest and mei being the youngest were very stirred about moving to their impudently home and closer to their mom. When they arrived to their new home the girls ran all through and around the house. Their dad introduces them to the neighbor, who was an old la dy who was keeping the house up while it was empty. The neighbor told the girls to call her Granny. The girls father also told them that she would be the new sitter while he went to work.Her being the girls sitter was strange to me because in this culture we live in today us as parents we do non leave our children with strangers we know nothing about, so that didnt set too well with me. He should have let the girls cause comfortable, and get to know her first. The old lady seemed to enjoy the girls and the girls enjoyed her too. Granny had a grandson, who the girls passed along the way to find their new house. When the girls asked if he knew how to get to their new house, he told them it was haunted, but granny put a stop to the rumors.The father, who was a professor at the local college in town, was always busy and a bit inattentive to Mei. Satsuki who is only nine and attends schooldays had to grow up very quickly by helping with her litter sister combing her vibrissa and cook ing for her while her mother is ill in the hospital. Both girlss had a very spoiled imagination. Mei wondered off into the woods one day while playing outside alone. Mei set up a tree that had a path inside of its trunk, thats when she found a spirit named Totoro. When she told her father and sister bout Totoro they didnt believe her. Totoro was there to be with Mei when she didnt have anyone else. Satsuki and Mei were sideing forward to spending time with their mother on the weekend. Its been awhile, so they were very excited about spending time with her. Thats when an urgent telegram was sent from the hospital concerning their mother. The girls panicked and were afeared(predi cuckooe) something was wrong with their mother. They rushed off to use a phone to call their dad, but Mei got alienated stressful to keep up.Once Satsuki noticed Mei was missing she had the whole neighborhood was looking for her. Thats when she false to Totoro for help to find Mei. Totoro got a cat bus that could fly up in the sky and look over the town to find Mei. They found her on a dark road crying she was trying to get to the hospital to make sure her mother was ok. The cat bus was a big cat, with look as headlights, paws as wings and its body open up inside filled with soft cat hair as seats. This is what made the movie different imaginary flying cat bus and friends.Its good to see that the girls imaginary friends were able to help find Mei and move them to the hospital to see if their mother is ok. In American movies you dont see much of siblings homogeneous Satsuki and Mei. They were getting along, playing without fussing and fighting with each other. The two sisters were very loving and kind towards one other. This movie is a great movie for children to watch to learn and see how to get along and enjoy childishness even when things come up and the older sibling has to step up the take care of their junior siblings. My Neighbor Totoro is a good non-violent movie for kids to watch. My Neighbor Totoro is based on experience, situation and explorationnot on conflict and threat (Ebert, R). When looking for films for children you should look for films similar to My Neighbor Totoro for your children. A film with force out tends to put children on the wrong path at times. So we want them to see and learn its not all about fighting bickering amongst each other, but how to love, and help one another when situations come up. Work CitedEbert, R. Rev of My Neighbor Totoro , Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Roger Ebert. Dec 23, 2001. Greenberg, Raz. Giri And Ninjo The Roots Of Hayao Miyazakis My Neighbor Totoro In Animated Adaptations Of clean Childrens Literature. Literature Film Quarterly 40. 2 (2012) 96-108. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Feb. 2013. Klady , L. Rev of My Neighbor Totoro . Dir Hayao Miyazaki. commixture. Variety Media. May 5, 1993. Wed. Feb 2013. My Neighbor Totoro. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Perf. Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning. Studio Ghibi,1988. DVD