My Neighbor Totoro

My Neighbor Totoro; or, where is the second half of this movie?

I know I will get a lot of flak for this, but I just watched My Neighbor Totoro and honestly do not think it is a very good movie. Hayao Miyazaki excels at creating beautiful, rich and enthralling fantasy settings that beg exploration. He does not, however, excel at actually exploring them.

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At the bar

So a straight man walks into a gay bar…

“Arizona?”
“Yep, my parents live there, but I’ve been here for a few years now.”
“Good for you!”

He smiled as he gave me my driver license back.

Of course, that was just an excuse to pat my back, which was just a pretext to put his hand on my shoulder, which was just a ploy to slowly slide it up and down massaging me a little too sensually for my liking. Oh yes. I was just about to enter the gay bar.

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