sabato 19 settembre 2009

totoro

yesterday I went to the cinema, and from a wonderful front row (the showing was sold out) I saw for the first time in italian (and for the "n" time generally) the Miyazaki best creation. Originally called TONARI NO TOTORO (my neighborhood Totoro), it come out on 1985, but just recently the italian production company Lucky Red decided to translate and distribuite the movie. The preview was, in fact, yesterday, and a part of some awful translation, the italian version is a bit more childish, but not bad.

The thing I love the most about Miyazaki's direction, is his simple poetics; the way he represent the basic emotions of every human being. What shined the most by this movie, was the universal thoughtlessness that every child is supposed to have, and the way this feeling makes everything turn light or dark, without shading. I loved so much Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (the last Miyazaki's movie) for the same reason. It represent the love between childrens (childrens and marmaids, actually) in a totally pure way, and it looks like not only the director found the real essence of this feeling, but also he can communicate it just through his animated images.



And if you read some info about Miyazaki way of thinking, you will understand a lots of thing about his movies. He originally graduated in political sciences and economics, and he always let a message pass by the frames, because he think that cartoons are a strong communicative weapon.

Totoro is probably my favourite cartoon character; I remember that the first time I watched that movie, he filled me up with an incredible peacefullness, and every time that I watch it, I've got the same feeling. I also remember that the first time I used a graphic tablet (a terrible one, it was giant and useless to draw), I drew a totoro. Obiouvsly I was too lazy to draw the grass too, but that's the story of my life.



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