90 minutes of nothing happening

>nothing happens
The biggest meme in film criticism

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>nothing happens
>still a 10/10
how did they do it?

In this case it's actually true though

haha

isn't this a film for kids?

Not an argument. There are numerous kids/family films where things happen. Just because you're appealing to a younger audience doesn't mean it has to lack substance

Go to Reddit then, no one has the time to do this

>a Yea Forums poster claims he has no time
lol

Its supposed to be slice of life without any major indicents happening. Something does happen though, the little girl gets lost and Totoro and the Catbus come to help her deliver the veggies to her mother in the hospital.

>the little girl gets lost and Totoro and the Catbus come to help her deliver the veggies to her mother in the hospital
That is literally nothing

>things "happening" = substance
This movie kills the plotfag

What's the substance in this movie? Neither the story nor the characters advance in any way.

Bro you like totally have to put it into your 3x3 to show how refined your tastes are.
>comparing one of the greatest movies of all time to a cartoon for kids

Stalker is cringe reddit garbage.

That's just shows how worthless OP is

Everyone on Yea Forums is worthless

kek

Depends on your standards. Also its impossible for it to be "literally" nothing. Its something, if its not enough for you thats a different story.

You're absolutely right just don't expect the opinion to sit well with the bandwagon masterpiece crowd

I experienced the opposite of enjoyment while watching Totoro, not because "nothing happened" but because the children yelling and screaming every two seconds for no reason was extremely annoying.
And I LIKE kids.

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I believe that we as a society have grown too accustomed to concise pacing, discrete and tangible themes, clearly laid out character development and a big emotional catharsis at the end of a story that we have forgotten what truly matters. We should encourage animators to draw simple acts and motions such as characters washing the dishes, hanging the laundry, kids playing around, shots of the trees swaying, cars driving, animals moving, families eating together etc. All of these scenarios make the world feel more alive and lived in but it seems most young people today need exciting plots, dark subject matter and massive world ending stakes that we've thoroughly distanced ourselves from life and art and into fictional escapism.

>doesn't mean it has to lack substance
But it doesn't need to have substance either when the target audience is averaging the age of 5

>I LIKE kids

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Pretty flimsy defence
I'm fine to have those extra little details, I just need more than extra details

Stop projecting

I like other Ghibli and Miyazaki films, this one was just lame
So it's a shitty film for five year olds? Got it, glad Yea Forums agrees

'Our mom didn't die from TB' is technically nothing happening, but when your mom has TB that's a very important nothing to happen.

It's cute and sweet

Its boring shit and Miyazaki is a hack

>mom is a bit more unwell so she can't come home over the weekend
Wow, huge story beat
So are other movies and things actually happen in them as well

stick to hollywood if your looking for instant thrills you attention deprived, uncultured burger.

user, when you're four years old it's a big fucking deal that your mother is unpredictably gone for days at a time and everyone seems concerned about her health.

>So it's a shitty film for five year olds?
Well I'm not sure it would be remembered like this if not for Miyazaki bonus points. I watched it just for the giant furballs and was still pretty disappointed so yeah. I guess so

>stick to hollywood if your looking for instant thrills
When did I say I was looking for instant thrills?
Initially it's a rather intense scene, but all of the emotion is diminished when the characters see her laughing in hospital later the same day and everything is back to normal

Is the Miyazaki bonus a thing?

This movie proves it. That can go for any movie. Shittier movie made by someone known or starring someone big gets remembered better than it is.

They moved to a new house to be close to a country hospital. She has a serious illness, and Mei being a child misinterprets the news about her not coming home to mean the worst.
The arc of the film is that Mei has to come to terms with her mother not always being around, at a very young age. Her sister is barely more prepared than she is, and their father can hardly teach them how to be women. They turn to nature and the aspects of traditional Japanese society seen as being in harmony with nature. The old woman's vegetables and the villager search party, along with the forest spirits and their father, eventually reassure Mei and Satsuki that they too are strong enough to make it through the world and participate in the community as adults one day.

Mei's growth isn't illustrated particularly well in the film. We don't see it before the movie ends.