Odd confluences

It is getting hard for the kids to settle on the same movie on movie night-- Anselm would happily cycle through Star Wars infinitely, and is bored of all the Pixar films that we own (since we'd rather put on something we own than go out and get something). Eliot would happily catch up on Anselm's dozens of previous viewings of Toy Story. But a recent purchase seems, strangely, to satisfy both: Pom Poko, another environmental tale from Studio Ghibli. The narration starts something like "In the immediate post-war period, Tokyo's urban expansion..." and segues into a tale of encroachment of the city on the raccoons of the forest. What follows is a rather incoherent story of defiance and magic. Dubious as I find it, it seems to satisfy something in both of them.