#001: Interacting with the Unknown | My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)

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Cinema, My Child, and Me

Kids & Family


In the first episode of Cinema, My Child, and Me, Abhinav and Shibangi talk about how parents or teachers and children can watch Hayao Miyazaki's classic My Neighbour Totoro, and use the experience as an opportunity to talk about how each of us deals with what is unknown to us. 

The hosts reminisce about their childhoods and share some ideas with parents and teachers about the various threads they can pick up to start engaging conversations with their children or students.

The episode contains some spoilers as the hosts share:

  • a summary of My Neighbour Totoro
  • their personal impressions of the film
  • their favourite themes from the movie
  • technical highlights 
  • the standout scenes of their choice
  • some discussion ideas which the listeners can use to engage in with their children 
  • a poll for the listeners (on Breakfast@Cinema's Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages, as well as their website - details given below).

Thanks to freemusicarchive.org for providing us with tracks under Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0 for the podcast. 

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