Arietti the Borrowed Thing is an animated film produced by Studio Ghibli in Japan, and it is also one of the works of Mr. Miyazaki, an animated film co-written by Mr. Miyazaki, which is still full of Mr. Miyazaki's style!
With a very short story to bring us a lot of space to think, not only the enjoyment of that beautiful picture, but also the thinking about life and nature! Mr. Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli are very good at this style, and the details of the process are the reasons for the story to become full!
The plot of "Arietti the Little Man Who Borrowed Things" is adapted from the fantasy novel "The Little Man Under the Floor" by British writer Mary Norton, of course, the story has made many changes, including the background of the story from the United Kingdom in the 1950s to the Tokyo countryside in 2020, which is more in line with the background of the Japanese era, and also makes many details that are more meaningful to explore!
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The story begins with a 12-year-old boy named Xiang, who has been sick since childhood, and Xiang, who has not had much time, must rely on a heart exchange surgery to maintain his life that has just begun and not long! In order to better recuperate, Xiang came to his aunt's house to recuperate, so the story officially began!
Near Xiang's aunt's old house lived a small humanoid family, their body shape is very thin, equivalent to half the size of a person's palm, which means that most of the species in this world can pose a threat to them, so under the test of cruel nature, the remaining small human races are already few!
And the heroine Arieti family is still struggling to survive the remaining little people, Arieti and their parents live together, and their main source of life is to borrow from humans, after all, in the face of this dangerous world everywhere, the little people can not get the development of the social type, and the same habits as humans, so that they can only rely on human life and survive!
After all, as mentioned earlier, most of the species in this world are disasters for the little people, squirrels and insects in the grass can easily cause harm to the little people, and every time they go out, it is a long journey for the little people!
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So the story revolves around the small human race that is struggling to survive, in order to be able to live a better life, Arieti's father has to go to the nearby human house every once in a while to borrow things, and as Arietti grows up, she also has to go out with her father for an "adventure"!
So Arieti and her father embarked on her first borrowing trip, traveling long distances, through sewers, through breaks in houses like abysses and caves, to the kitchen and bedroom of the woodhouse where Xiang lived to borrow sugar cubes and tissues!
Although the father and daughter borrowed the sugar cube relatively smoothly, they were discovered by the male protagonist Xiang when borrowing paper towels, so the father had to end the "adventure" of the borrowed object with the panicked Arieti! And when Arietti was found and frightened, the sugar cubes she had already obtained were also lost! So this time the father and daughter are equivalent to returning empty-handed!
However, the male protagonist Xiang is very interested in Arieti, the little human race, in fact, Xiang saw Arieti when he just arrived at the forest hut in the morning, and immediately developed a desire to protect such a small species! So Arietti found a sugar cube the next morning at the sewer opening not far from the house' door!
But Arietti's strict tutor did not allow her to take this piece of sugar cube from the handout privately, and sure enough, after returning home to inform her parents about this matter, the strict father told Arietti that she absolutely could not take this sugar cube, so Arieti took the initiative to return the sugar cube!
In fact, this piece of sugar cube is very important for the small human race that is not easy to live, but the family still chooses to give up, of course, the fear of the ensuing danger is on the one hand, more is afraid of the hidden dangers brought by the back! And this sugar cube and the "adventure" of the original borrowed object, the father did not let Arieti take any items in the exquisite doll house is a reason! That's the question of independent survival!
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On the surface of the story, the little terrans are afraid of being discovered by humans and choose not to take the items that are easy to be found by humans, but in fact, behind the fact that from another perspective, there is a problem about independent survival!
If you accept the help of human beings for a long time, and this kind of finished product similar to the heavenly fall, and give up your own efforts to live, I think the little human race will usher in the demise in the near future, because this will gradually lose the ability to survive independently, and the whole world will be full of danger and unknown for the little human race!
Therefore, the little human race has rules, only through their own efforts to borrow things, rather than trying to find ways to enjoy their success every day, so that is their way of survival and handling! In fact, this truth is reasonable for any species, including humans!
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And perhaps the real thinking that Mr. Miyazaki wants to bring to the audience is about man and nature, and many people after watching this movie think that this behavior of the little human race is ultimately stealing, not borrowing as mentioned in the story!
But I don't know if you have ever thought that everything in human beings is created by yourself? We actually borrowed it from nature, so I think that the loan used by Mr. Miyazaki is very appropriate, just like the principle of the little human race, if it is too greedy to borrow, then human beings will one day be retaliated by nature!
Some people will definitely say that this is a stealing of gratitude, human beings rely on hard work in exchange for all this, then the little human race is also relying on the efforts of wading through mountains and rivers to borrow things, and the raw materials of those things are all masterless things belonging to nature, maybe this is the problem that Mr. Miyazaki wants to let the audience really think!
And what do you think about borrowing this word? Just as there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, your understanding may be that the author wants to get bigger!
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