A letter to a growing girl

Emmanuel 2022-01-23 08:04:56

Japanese anime always seems to start in summer. The verdant rice fields, the azure blue sky, and the crisp cicadas cried out, creating a tranquil scene of the long summer days.
But the peaches at the beginning of the film are unhappy and worrying. When his father was wrecked at sea, the last thing Taozi said to him was "I hate you the most!" When he was packing up his belongings, he accidentally found his father's unfinished letter, leaving a sentence of "for Taozi". What will the father write? Was it a letter that Momoko prepared to write when she didn't understand her complicated mood? All the unfinished words and emotions are only a blank sheet of paper.
My mother was busy moving to the country, and she was forced to support her broken home. She didn't seem to care about Taozi's mood at all. Taozi was full of thoughts, with guilt and longing for his dead father, and the strangeness and discomfort of the new environment. Probably because of her thoughts, Taozi is particularly sensitive to evil spirits. The addition of the legendary atlas shown to her by her uncle has deepened her fear and suspicion of ghosts. Taozi sensed the existence of the monsters several times, and finally saw three monsters stealing oranges on a rainy day. Momoko was shocked and ran home in a panic, but when she was alone at home, she still met the three monsters head-on. Taozi waved the wooden stick in her hand to drive away the three monsters. In the accident, she held their pass spell in her hand. In order to stabilize Taozi's emotions, Dumb Achuan made up a lie indiscriminately.
Thus, Taozi, who was lonely and lonely, began to live with the three monsters of Adu Achuan. She had three chapters with them and couldn't steal or harm humans, but A Chuan, who couldn't help but greedy, still violated the ban repeatedly. From this time on, the melancholy girl in the film seems to have gradually changed. In the restraint and compromise between the shemales, Taozi dilutes the guilt and miss for her father. The tempo of the film has accelerated, and the atmosphere has become more relaxed. The very comedy scene is that Taozi takes Achuan to the mountains of the island to find meat, and encounters a wild boar. Achuan recklessly grabs the piglet. As a result, the three are chased and intercepted by wild boars. In the hustle and bustle of fleeing for their lives, the shemales merged together in an unusually harmonious manner.
Another hilarious clip is that when A Chuan reported to the kingdom of Tao Zi Ikuko's recent situation, the three demon danced with Tao Zi to perform the ritual. At first Tao Zi didn't care about it. Attitude and action. Seeing them solemnly perform sacred rituals that resemble sacrifices and dance to the gods, I can't help but laugh.
In getting along with the three mobs, Taozi unknowingly defeated the fear of diving. Before diving with her friends for the first time, Taozi gave up halfway as a deserter; for the second time, Taozi failed to make the appointment; for the third time, when Taozi plucked up the courage to stand on the rock and his heart was up and down, Ah Chuan went from behind. The peach fell into the water when he slapped it. "Is that so?" Achuan said nonchalantly, ignoring the grinning peach in the water.
But Taozi's relationship with her mother still hasn't made any progress. The breakthrough of the relationship On a thunderstorm night, Taozi and her mother's conflict broke out, and she ran out of the house in anger. Her mother suffered from asthma. In fear of her father's guilt and fear of losing her mother, Taozi bravely rushed into the thunderstorm night to find a doctor. At first, Ah Chuan was worried that it would be taboo to interfere with the life and death of human beings, but finally realized that his duty was to help protect Momoko and Ikuko in the gap where Momoko's father turned from the world to heaven. As a result, all the young people together sheltered the peach from the wind and rain. Finally, the mother and daughter relieved their happy knot, and Taozi received a letter from the horizon, dispelling her guilt towards her father.
Although there are ghosts and gods in the film, they are not opposed to humans. "When the gods are down and down, they become ghosts," Taozi's grandfather said. Yes, in fact, Ah Chuan Ah Dui is the deity appointed by Tao Zi's father to guard her mother and daughter. Japan is also a nation that believes in gods. The film wants to express that those relatives who walked away did not actually abandon us, but turned into gods and silently guard us.

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A Letter to Momo quotes

  • Momo Miyaura: [last words to her father] You're selfish, and you're a liar. I don't care if you come back.