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Just in time for Halloween. Yes, it is on a shirt and you can get it at http://huskybusiness.net/totoro
October 8th to October 15th only!
Just in time for Halloween. Yes, it is on a shirt and you can get it at http://huskybusiness.net/totoro
October 8th to October 15th only!
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Of course it has a serious and deep message: The two girls learn to deal with the impeding death of their mother. I personally find it heartwarming that this topic - that still sometimes is given the taboo treatment - is channeled through wonderful, fantastic and heartwarming pictures with a big cuddly spirit. If however Totoro, the friendly and cuddly neighbour, is truly the personification of death, well then it gives reason to rethink the stereotypes of death.
I don't understand why people want to paint death in such a dark light like in a horror movie.
Death is part of life, it is an inevitable future for all of us. Why paint it in horrible colours and make people afraid of it?
If that is what truly happens in the Totoro anime, then it's fine: It is either a story of two girls learning to deal with the inevitable death of their sick mother with the help of the personification of death, or a story where both girls die in the end, but because it is not shown as horrible it tells children not to be afraid of death.
Death is part of life, it is an inevitable future for all of us. Why paint it in horrible colours and make people afraid of it?
If that is what truly happens in the Totoro anime, then it's fine: It is either a story of two girls learning to deal with the inevitable death of their sick mother with the help of the personification of death, or a story where both girls die in the end, but because it is not shown as horrible it tells children not to be afraid of death.
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