 Ah, you are on the air. My elbow. My elbow. My elbow. Oh. Here you go. Yeah. Okay. Welcome back to Spoonsville. We are covering my neighbor Totoro. Yeah. Yeah. 1988 Studio Ghibli. And we put it on because we're just looking for something frantically to watch before we, you know, the food is getting cold. Time is of the essence. And we put that one on and I liked it. It was sweet. Very wholesome. I've never seen a movie with such cute ghosts. Would you call them ghosts? I don't know if Totoro is a ghost. I think he's just a spirit. Yeah. I feel like he's a spirit. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah. I did, I liked it. Yeah. You know? I don't know. It's interesting now that I'm here. I'm feeling kind of sad. Oh. Like I'm stifling a waterfall. Stifling? A waterfall. I totally do not want to be crying. Totoro? I remember the first time I talked about how it kind of reminded me of my childhood. And I feel like, I don't know why you didn't think this, feel the same way. Because you pretty much grew up surrounding like a forest. Yeah. No, I had the same thing. Yeah. And we would just spend times, especially when we were really young, when we got older and we had computers, you know, stayed more indoors. But younger, around May's age, you know, four or five years old, you would just walk along the road or walk into valleys and ditches and forests. Exactly. Yeah. For me, it reminded me of my childhood. Because I had that kind of childhood. Yeah. I grew up in a place where we were just kids. After school, you just go home, drop your bag and you just hang out with people, with your friends. Yeah. And you just, you're out of an about all day climbing trees or, I don't know, in nature. Very carefree. Very carefree. So I guess that's why I'm now kind of feeling sad. A little nostalgic. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely, it's interesting because I didn't really want to do a review on this because I was like, I don't know what to talk about. Because really the plot isn't that deep. It's just some kids, some kids who move to the countryside or rural Japan with their dad. They move into this house. It's very dilapidated and they just have basically adventures with these spirits that they need, Tororo and cute little one spirits. And that's basically it. Yeah. That's literally what happens in the movie. So I don't know. I felt like, so I thought that, you know, what am I going to say? But I just realized that it's just maybe kind of like an ode to innocence. Yeah. You know? Yeah. For me, when I was watching that, there was a lot of that memory of not having to worry about stuff. Yeah. Like I'm getting, work is stressful right now. It's okay. It's a jibbling movie. Work is killing me. Yeah, emotional. I think Tororo just thought to you a little bit. It's okay. It's okay. Yeah. I totally did because I think, yeah, I remember that time. I've been, I know that when we were maybe the first two sittings of the movie, I remember I was talking to you about these fruits that we used to have that I can't even remember what they were called, but they were just an abundance because we lived in a place that was just really, you know, packed full of nature and vegetation and all these things that were just incredible for a kid. And so Tororo kind of definitely took me back there. Yeah. It's not just a kid movie. I think that's when I first watched it, I said that I was like, this is for kids, but it's for everyone. For you as a non-kid, it's definitely something that's going to remind you of that, the innocence of that time. Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely going to tap into a whole lot of nostalgia. Yeah. When I first think about it, I'm like, yeah, I liked it. Like I enjoyed myself, you know, there was like good music, funny moments, cute characters, but you know, was it, you know, it's felt kind of like there really wasn't much there. But when you think about it, like for me, I'm thinking about it. I really like that it wasn't a lot going on. First of all, there was still the backdrop of a potentially serious, you know, their mom being sick. And for most of you, you don't really know if she's going to, you know, going to make it or not, which is pretty dark. And then, you know, the kids, like there are some conversations, some dialogue there that I'm like, this doesn't feel like a kids movie where the kids are just like, they're crying, they're having a hard time because they're like, what if mom dies? What are we going to do? You know, it's not really something you see. It's like the emoji movie. I haven't even seen it. But like, I can't imagine they deal with that. Maybe they do. But you know, there are some kids movies that they don't really actually face things that intense, you know? And it's one of those where I'm thinking, does a movie like that have to have so much more going on? It can simply, like you say, just be an ode to, like it just put you back into being a four-year-old when you could just spend all day trying to watch seeds grow. Yeah. You know, that was your day. And you would spend that for weeks. It was fascinating. It was fascinating. And you'd love it. And you wouldn't ever get bored. And you could so easily lose yourself. You could get lost in the forest because you just imagine yourself like making imaginary friends or coming up with these scenarios in your head. And you know, and at the end of it, you know, there is some cool magical stuff that happens. They hang out with Totoro. The other little creatures, they'll have their own umbrellas and everything and they're like making music through these like, I don't know, conch shell things. Yeah. So, with kids movies now when you watch them, it's like so jam-packed full of jokes and references and things flashing across the screen and trying to keep you interested, I guess. But this is, it's nice and relaxed. There's not too much that needs to grip your constant attention, you know? Yeah. One thing I would say for someone going into the movie, it doesn't have a beginning and middle and end. Right. What it is, it's like a moment in time. Yeah. Like a moment in someone's life. Like maybe like a month of these people's lives and that's it. You don't know what's going to, what happened before. Yeah. You don't even know why they're moving. Yeah. You know they're moving to the country but you're not sure. I assume that they'd move there because the mom got sick and maybe was cheaper to go to rural Japan. Yeah. I thought that that was what was going to be uncovered but they don't even talk about that. Yeah. You just see them moving there to this house and that's about it, you know? Yeah. So it is really just a moment in time and I think for me the movie was much more about the innocence of childhood. Yeah. Things like them moving to this house that is completely dilapidated, you know? Yeah. But they're super excited about it. Yeah. They don't even realize these things which, you know, once you're an adult, you have your own house. I'm like, oh my God, people are coming over. I have to do this and I have to do that. We have to, we can't have people come in before I put the, you know, living room together. Yeah. The dad, he spends a lot of time putting the house together. They help where they can where they're making a game out of like swapping and swabbing. Yeah. The swabbing? Yeah. They swab the deck. Yeah. They swab in the floor. They're running back and forth and cleaning up the floor and everything. But, you know, once they more or less get it together, he's doing work. He's missing all the total stuff. They're flying around. They're growing a giant tree. They're singing. They're making music. He's not noticing anything because he's stuck in work, right? But the kids, I mean, but he's also, I think it's sweet too because he still holds on to a bit of his childhood too where he's able to connect with his kids. He's like, I think they're just making up random stuff about making imaginary friends. But that's cool. If they're having a good time, that's great. You're going to play along with it. I think the dad is really great because he doesn't. He's not one of those dads who's like, oh, that's not real. You know, you got to be serious about life. There are no things. Better start growing up. Yeah. There isn't anything like, you know, like total that doesn't exist or whatever. He just goes along with it. Yeah. I like that. I think that's mark of a very good parent. Yeah. And they're very responsible kids honestly. And, and so you can, you see also that part of her kind of having to grow up and also the fact that the mom isn't there and is sick. Yeah. They're just, they're certain things that are nudging them towards growing up. And yeah. The hood of the adults. Yeah. It's kind of nice that it didn't have that, yeah, that it wasn't predictable in that way. I didn't really know what was going to happen. They end up kind of quickly. We need to get to mom. So they have to find Totoro. They have to find May. They have to get the cat bust to send them to the hospital. But in the end, she was, she was recovering. So they didn't need to do that. But they still were worried, you know, and then they, and their minds are, they, they, they maybe overblow things. But they're also understandably they're getting a call, right? It's a misunderstanding of like, yeah, we probably didn't need to call you guys because she's doing okay. But then that scares them. They're like, we're getting a call from the hospital. So yeah, that's what you're right though. It's, it's day in the life. But nothing wrong with that. It doesn't need to be a grand narrative. Yeah. Right now, I'm definitely like in deep thought about my childhood. It's crazy. It's definitely, I almost wonder if who, whoever wrote it, I wonder if they were kind of remembering just that. I don't know, a moment in their own lives. Yeah. Like when you're around five, you are not really thinking about, there's so many things that you aren't thinking about. Life is super magical. Everything is so big and wonderful and exciting. And I don't know, I definitely missed that, that time. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. Getting super emotional. Even things like making friends. You know, I remember May has to wants to, ends up going to school with Suzuki. Oh yeah. She wanted to spend time with her and the teacher just allowed them and the kids were so nice and you know, nobody was being mean or anything like that. And I was just thinking about how much easier it was when you're a kid to just interact with people. Because I guess at the time there weren't a lot of things that were forming your needs as a human being. And the most basic platform for interacting with anyone was just that you were a human. And that's it. Like you're a person, we can be friends. And so, but now it's just so much more complicated. Even if you don't really want it to be complicated, the world changes you, right? As you grow up, there's just so much more added to you as a person and will determine who you can really reasonably interact with seamlessly and comfortably. So, yeah, and that really means life is much more complicated. And so, I'm definitely now thinking about it and reflecting feeling a lot more nostalgic for youth than I thought going into the movie for childhood, nostalgic for childhood. Yeah. Which has its place. I think there's a nice set of movies that do that. And I like that there's some supernatural elements, but it's not a lot, you know? And everything's just gentle. It's very gentle. It's a very gentle movie. Yeah. It's mild in a good way. It's sweet. Yeah. Music is nice, but again, it's just a kind of compliments the movie. I don't know. Yeah, the music is great. It's just super. Yeah. It just takes you back. Yeah. It definitely just takes you back. Yeah. Now I'm going after this, I'm going to cry. Yeah. Because I'm remembering my childhood and I wanted back. Yeah. What would you rate it? Ten out of ten. Yeah. Ten out of ten. Yeah. Ugh. Ugh. Yeah. Glad I finally saw it. I mean to see it for a while and you know they sell those Totoro plushies. Big squishy. We'll see. Yeah. Maybe a pillow. Maybe a pillow. You can get a Totoro pillow. Okay. Cool. Got to get a couple Totoro spoons. Not a couple. Okay. Let's say goodbye. Bye, folks. Bye.