Few years ago, to be more precise around 2004, I met this really, really bitchy and difficult woman who grated on my nerves endlessly. Needless to say, we do not get along at all but one day a topic of Totoro came up. All of sudden, as if by magic, she turns into this soft, happy person that I never thought she is capable of. She smiles beautifully and began to talk about the movie excitedly like a giddy school girl. It is a major shock to me.
That, my friends, is the power of Miyazaki's touch.
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