When Mei breaks down crying when she thinks her mom might die, her mouth opens cartoonishly wide - but that exaggeration conveys a deeper emotional truth. This honesty also applies to the portrayal of childhood's painful realities. Totoro captures that with unique honesty. Kids are goofy, strange, curious, and odd. Then there's the way Satsuki turns looking for the stairs into a game, proudly announcing, "It isn't in here!" over and over again, while Mei runs behind her and does the same thing. If an adult fell down a rock chute and landed on the stomach of a 10-foot-tall behemoth, they'd run screaming for the hills. Kids, for example, don't get the same thrill of recognition adults do from scenes like Mei meeting Totoro for the first time. This is the kind of thing you can only see in children once you're an adult.
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