Pom Poko1994

Its broad, slapstick send-up of human foibles prefigures Takahata’s more pointed My Neighbors, the Yamadas (1999). At 119 minutes, the film feels a bit long and the story rambles, albeit genially.

Ｂ＋/ 的确是非常坦诚的明喻了，但也因其明澈而充满轻盈的多面性，也因其概念设定的确凿而能充分释放运动感。动画，难道不是一种赤诚的“电影身体”的最佳载体？用尽身体的戏法去创造一些幻象，去生成银幕又破坏它，这是否正是一种电影媒介与社会运动的内在关联？像是在看一种带有谷克多色彩的徐克电影，恣肆地穿透空间，又有着恰到好处的凝定与出神。

Takahata’s wondrous film is itself at constant interplay between the unsentimental realities of human progress (and expansion) and the unbound thoughts and creative perspectives that fantasy can entertain without necessarily being reduced to mere entertainment.