Hannah Sanpei

5/2/14

My Neighbor Totoro

My neighbor Totoro is a movie that is loving and friendly and is supposed to be a family movie but, how well do you really know the movie Totoro?

Rumor says the movie Totoro is based on a real event. Also Totoro is "The God of Death". They say you can only see Totoro if you are close to death or already dead. In the movie when the grandmother saw a sandal in the middle of a pond and thinks its Mei's so she asks Satsuki if it was Mei's but she was too sad to believe it so she lied and said no (Mei had drowned in the pond). After Satsuki went to go find Totoro so he could help find Mei. But all they found was her spirit. In the end when Satsuki, Mei, and Totoro are in the tree next to the hospital only the mother could see them because she was very ill. Also some people say when they are up in the tree they had no shadows.

This may be sad and from now on when you watch movies you may see them differently. Things are not always the way they seem. But, if I were the one who made the movie it would have been like this well if Mei and Satsuki we still alive.

Mei, Satsuki, and Totoro played their music all through that night and the next day there mom had been better and was able to come home. Also the seeds that Mei and Satsuki planted in the backyard had grown into big lovely trees just like the camper tree. That summer Mei and Satsuki had become closer sisters and grew a better bond and Satsuki had found out that Kanta had a crush on Satsuki. Well Satsuki helped her mom around the house and Mei would go back to the camper tree every day hoping that she would be able to see Totoro while their dad made dinner for the family. Every once in a while Totoro would visit like on their birthdays or something special like that or the day they met at which would be at the camper tree for Mei and the bus stop for Satsuki. But, one day it was the day that Totoro and Mei met but Totoro didn't show up and they thought something was wrong. A little while later the two Mini Totoros came and told them that Totoro had died (how ironic the God of Death dies.) Satsuki, Mei, and their mom helped make a funeral for Totoro and their dad made food. Also the mini Totoros helped decorate the place. They set up a whole ceremony for him because he was like family.

A year later a new Totoro came and he came on the cat bus he was even fluffier and had a huge mouth just like the old one. He even had one of those floating things that he flew on. They looked like they could be siblings but the new Totoro was a light brown. Then all of a sudden the new Totoro said I'm Tatoro, Totoros brother.

To be continued…