Its a Studio Ghibli festival during my weekends and I have to devote 2 hours of my life watching the fun and magic created by them. And surely their style, concept and characterization has captured me a lot. The illusion of the dreamy characters like Totorro, city, dragons, landscapes in Spirited away or reclusive personalities like Porco Rosso, each and every other movie is so catchy and perfect that I wish that to be running forever and ever.The perfect sense of making anyone immersed even though someone isnt a fan of Anime, with his animated characters, love for beautiful landscapes and multi cultural stories. I just like them all.

Spirited away and Mononoke are the classics and has the mind boggling essence of storytelling, but there are some with the plain concept and story with a touchy art to just tell the whats the dream is all about. They are more of a demonstrations of the skills for the artists in the studio, keeping the stories at the backburner. Recently I have seen My Neighbour Totorro, and its very much inclined to children anime with simple story but distinctive characters. The plot is nothing new but fun to watch and somewhat nostalgic for me, for some parts when as a kid we use to imitate our elders, follow them, always on high energies, less afraid of new things and what not.Those things really came back.

This brings to me to illustrate something from the movie, I felt very close and a part that something changes the story with a short notice. The part of this I have chosen is dear to me as 4 year kid decides to do something for her ailing mother. Being an adult we know that she was a fool who has never learned to record the distance to the hospital without her sister or father being with her, but still goes on to show the courage to do something for the very first time. To try and make a change, even thats as small as gifting the corn to her mother, thinking that will make her healthy and quicken her return to home.

I am sure we all have done something wrong in our childhood to make ourselves feel adventurous, or for the sake of fun or in the act of desperation and ended up with what we had never expected in our near imaginations or expectations. But as shown in the movie, no matter where we are lost and disoriented, there is always a time, late or early, when someone somewhere has found us and rescued us. In some case, its kin, sometimes friends or it can be a stranger as strange as Totorro. I am sure there would be many after us who had shed the tears, worried, missed and prayed a lot for our safety and welfare. And that is this simple story, which isnt as simple as in the real life is.

I think its not merely a fairytale, for which I can believe the character like Totorro isnt a ghost or spirit but our hope to make us pray for the testing times. Not everytime and every thing happens merrily in the real life as many people run out of luck and blessings or may be dont the priviledges of that giant spirit. But whatever had been shown in the movie, my childhood was gifted back to me while watching this movie and all special thanks to Miyazaki and his team.

Kudos to Ghibli once again!