My Neighbor Totoro Ghibli Film
Shinto religion and lore. The broad meaning of the film is rooted in a Shinto animistic worldview, in which nature is imbued with a spiritual dimension. Animism suggests that the entire world, even stones and wood, are imbued with life. The animistic worldview teaches respect for nature. The filmmaker shows how the spiritual dimension of nature can be perceived by humans but mainly when humans are in their most innocent or pure state: namely children. Including the real world references also anchors the supernatural with the natural, paralleling the Shinto… Continue Reading...
