To look at “My Neighbor Totoro” from a certain perspective, that’s really all there is to it.
To look at “My Neighbor Totoro” from a certain perspective, that’s really all there is to it. More stuff happens before the opening credits of several Pixar movies, whose stories are as intricate and fussed over as a Swiss watch. Indeed, it’s fair to say that few of the masterpieces on this list would prove more baffling to those who only think of movies as plot delivery mechanisms, and even fewer would be so inconceivable to the A.I. tools that some people see as the future of animation (as opposed to, in Miyazaki’s words, “an insult to life itself”).