Offering respite from an adult perspective without denying it, Studio Ghibli films often invite viewers into exalted states of innocence.
My Neighbor Totoro is a children’s film for the world as it is, and for the world as it should be.
It’s always felt like Ghibli movies understood what it meant to grow up as a girl, still unconvinced by the world that she has to fight for everything she has.
