Wrapped up the week with two Miyazaki films. Last night we re-watched Spirited Away and tonight we watched My Neighbor Totoro. Which I think I mentioned was the last of the Miyazaki's movies I hadn't seen. By now I'm sure everyone knows just how delightful Totoro is so I won't go on and on saying those kinds of things. They're all true, of course... One thing I found interesting, esp. seeing the two back-to-back like I did, is how many echoes of Totoro there are in Spirited Away. Chihiro is in many ways the antithesis of Mei and Sasaki. Visually there's a bit of a resemblence between the smaller Totoro's and the fat little mouse that Zeniba turns Baby into in Spirited Away. And of course, the soot.