Jinmin: I can only say regret for death

Carli 2021-12-24 08:01:45

He is known as the fourth Japanese animation master who will be world-renowned after Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Mamoru Oshii. Since his debut as a director, he has only four feature stories and one TV series, but he is considered to have pioneered the field of animation. There are totally different roads; his works are more or less about the intersection, mixing and swallowing of reality and dreams, with a strong taste of psychological analysis, and always based on the most worrying problems in modern society. .

At the beginning of the TV series "Agent of Delusion", people in various cities who are struggling with their lives held their phones and said similar things: "Sorry, I may not be able to go." "Time is too late." "Traffic." "It's not mine." Wrong..." The crowd in the subway was squeezed out of shape, each shouting for their powerlessness to life and time. The crazy state of the whole society is precisely the reason why many schizophrenics appeared afterwards and thirst for relief.

As it progressed to the back, all the victims explained that “it’s not my fault. I am a victim, not a criminal.” But in fact, it is precisely because of the subconscious desire to be victimized that they were attacked, which is very important for the criminal thoughts spreading in the society. , Everyone can't get rid of the relationship. Reminiscent of the "collective crime" in Japanese society and the general "victim psychology" after the war, this film seems more durable to read.

The feature film "Red Pepper" focuses on the broader reflection of modern society. In the film, people originally hoped to visit their dreams occasionally, but unexpectedly the dreams lost control and gradually connected with the dreams of others. The powerful dream power gradually engulfed reality, and everything reverted to the subconscious state in the dream: men turned into mobile phone cameras and gathered under women’s skirts to shoot wildly; office workers dressed in suits and ties, standing in rows at the company Jumped off the rooftop one by one, each with a smile that finally got what they wanted.

The most powerful thing is the "Human Garbage Parade": discarded old toys, old furniture, home appliances, old cars, and gradually forgotten torii, Buddha statues, and Japanese dolls at the entrance of Japanese shrines... all are resurrected, as if to be a human civilization. Rushing to the streets of Tokyo like revenge. They start from unrealistic scenes, pass through the jungle, through the bridge, and finally merge into the city, interfering with the daily life of human beings.

This scene is reminiscent of the work "American Gods" by American fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, depicting that in the future American society, televisions, refrigerators and other items have become gods, but originally from Northern Europe, Indians, and natives. God, including God, was overthrown.

"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is similar to it, and explores the materialization of modern civilization and what to do with its extraordinary imagination. The film is adapted from the work "Dream Detective" by the Japanese science fiction novelist Kanae Yasaka, but the plot of the dream parade is entirely from the director's hand.

"I want to express that the role of dreams and the Internet is a place for translating the suppressed subconsciousness of human beings. On the Internet, people use pseudonyms to find or speak things that they can’t normally say in the office. In fact, this is exactly the result of people deliberately releasing their subconscious on the Internet. This is very similar to dreams. I often wonder if we enter into mutual dreams, will we be on the Internet and enter our respective worlds? Will the result be the same? I don't want to try to explain the quality of dreams and the Internet. I just want to explain that good and bad are in that world, and there is no way to judge. There are no rules that apply to the real world. "In a certain interview, he explained.

Compared with Hayao Miyazaki’s fairy tale fantasy kingdom, Otomo Katsuyo’s free-handed perspective on the universe, and Oshii Mamoru’s philosophical speculation, he pays more attention to the various tears and dynamics between reality and the heart, and tirelessly explores the desire and restraint of the human heart. .

His name is Jin Min. Since it is not like a common Japanese name, he often has to face all kinds of weird names and misunderstandings, so he habitually adds spaces between the two characters when writing his name.

He was born on October 12, 1963, in Libra, with blood type A. It is said that the person living in the same ward from birth said that "this child's face looks like a drawing in a manga", as if he had established a relationship with anime since then.

When he was a child, he became obsessed with "Mobile Suit Gundam" and claimed to be a cartoonist when he grew up. He was also ridiculed by his family and friends. After graduating from high school in 1982, he resolutely applied for the Visual Communication Department of Musashino Art University, and began to publish works in manga magazines while he was in college.

In 1990, Jin Min served as the art designer for Otomo Katsuhiro's "Old Man Z" and officially entered the animation industry. Since then, he has been supported and nurtured by the 10-year-old Otomo Keyang. From the montage technique of comics to the bright and heavy colors of the animation, the shadow of the former can be seen.

By 1997, Jin Min directed his personal work "The House of Wei Ma" for the first time, and it revealed a completely different mental structure from other masters as soon as it appeared. In this work, Jin Min uses the specialties of animation to show a suspenseful psychological thriller plot, so that animation can completely get rid of the definition of "for children" and become an adult animation in the true sense.

And later "Millennium Actress"-tells the story of the actress Chiyoko exhausted her entire acting career to pursue her lover who has only one side with her. It runs through important historical periods such as the Sengoku, Shogunate, Taisho and Showa, and covers different movies type. Part of the female artist's acting career is to pay tribute to Ozu Yasujiro's queen actor Hara Setsuko. It has won many international awards, and was selected as the best animation of the year by the Multimedia Art Festival of the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs at the same time as Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away". ", Jin Min is more comfortable on this road. He abandoned the routine of using exquisite scenes and CG technology to win miraculous effects. He devoted himself to narrative and gradually found his own way.

The new work "Dream Machine" is underway, and the three main characters featuring red, yellow and blue were just announced not long ago. Fans are eagerly awaiting the news of Jin Min's death on August 24, and everyone is caught off guard.

In the posthumous letter of Jin Min released later, everyone learned that he was sentenced by a doctor on May 18 this year. He had advanced spleen cancer and lived no more than half a year...During his

illness, he still missed the new film: "Because of the original, The script, the setting of the characters and the worldview, the storyboard, the impression music, etc., all the thoughts are in Jin Min’s heart... Now, my mistakes are really painful to my heart."

With my parents The re-seeing is even more heartbreaking. After his parents learned of his condition, he came from his hometown in Sapporo and saw him lying on the bed. His mother blurted out: "I'm sorry! I didn't make you a healthy child!"

The suicide note of more than 5,000 words did everything, and he felt deeply. Suddenly when death comes, I try to prepare as much as possible. For those important people in life, not only want to meet again, but also feel more painful because of the physical strength and energy to be mobilized. In the last two or three months, he spent quietly at home, and ended his life with a pen, so others don't need to say anything.

"In the past ten years, I have fully displayed my skills as an animation director, achieved my goals, and received considerable comments. The only regret is that it is not very popular, but I think it is enough to repay them.

" There are many people I know in my life, no matter whether the influence is positive or negative, they are all necessary ingredients to constitute the person of "Gummin". I want to thank all the encounters. Although it turned out that I died early in my forties, I also think that this is my destiny irreplaceable. At the same time, I have had a lot of wonderful experiences.

"Now I have only this idea about death:'I can only say regret.'

"It's true. "

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  • Alverta 2021-12-24 08:01:45

    The superb editing and switching, the magnificent and colorful color composition, the ingenious and radiant and ingenious concept... are all dazzling, dizzying, shocking, and breathtaking!

  • Ellen 2022-03-26 09:01:08

    Kim Min is my favorite screenwriter, he must watch

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