Oh, and in both films a character suffers from a serious, potentially life-threatening condition, a situation that is obliquely rather than directly resolved in the end. The older generation pass on memories and lore regarding the mysterious creatures, but it’s generally the young who see them. Both films begin with young protagonists (in Totoro there are two young sisters here, it’s a boy named Shawn) arriving at an unfamiliar house in the country and discovering the strange, elusive beings who live there.
In some ways, Arrietty echoes Miyazaki’s great classic My Neighbor Totoro.
THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY FULL MOVIE ENG DUB SERIES
(As a child I read The Littles books, a younger-skewing American series by John Peterson that shared the premise of little people living in the secret spaces of big people’s homes.)įrom a brief perusal of Norton’s first Borrowers book, it seems The Secret World of Arrietty, um, borrows themes and plot points, including the names of the Borrower family - young Arrietty and her parents, level-headed Pod and nervous Homily - but charts its own plot in its own setting, present-day Japan rather than Victorian England. I have no prior history with the Borrowers, created in the 1950s by children’s author Mary Norton for a series of popular books and depicted in a number of small-screen adaptations and a well-received 1997 big-screen film. Her “secret world” is in the hidden spaces under floorboards and within walls, but the ordinary spaces of the house are no less magical. The Secret World of Arrietty looks closely at these things because its heroine Arrietty, a Borrower, is only about four inches tall.
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