The best movies in the world are deeply human, so how does Canisima do it? I think it's halfway done, but it's not enough to be a "great" work in terms of the depth of human nature and the divergence of the future, but it's good enough.
I went to the Isle of Dogs the day before yesterday, and at the recommendation of everyone, I watched this film. I liked it very much. I like its art style, and I also like the expression of the sense of form. It is also very good to watch it simply as a feature film. Yes, but I don't want to talk about the noble spirit of the dog in the middle, but what I understand, what the director implies, what he really wants to express.
If anyone can really notice it, then in the film, there is a gossip flag with numbers. If it is really just placed unintentionally, will the director really put this flag into a close-up view of nearly a quarter of the screen? So far, I haven't found any information that can prove or clarify the director's intention. At present, I only know that in gossip, 1 stands for Qian and 8 stands for Kun. Then the white area of the gossip has 1 and the black area is 8. Does it represent a kind of What about social ratios?
Starting with this flag, we can finally clearly feel that this film is not a casually made feature film, but a coincidence with the thoughts of many directors and the reactions of the real society. At present, I can know three key words: Japan The student movement and anti-American movement in the 1960s and 1970s, Japan's bubble economy in the 1980s, and the workers' movement for world "peace".
As early as the 1960s and 1970s, the student movement in Japan was in full swing, but in the end, it was no longer a student activity that symbolized justice, but a campaign for young people who vented their anger. In the movie, the first scene of the student forces appeared in the first act, I don't know if you still know it. The students wore white bandages on their heads and wrote words against killing dogs. This group seems to be a just team, except for the more ordinary image. Except for the "formal leader", everyone else has peculiar hairstyles and looks, which seem to represent cynicism and unrighteousness. This is intentional. The Japanese student movement started with the banner of anti-Americanism, but later It has changed into a hotbed of bad people and radicals, and the most typical and typical features in the film are all implied in a group called "Red Army". I will match the film with the elements of this group: female leaders, hijackers , Radical, foreign students, high school students, anti-imperialist patriotism, revolution is massacre and destruction. All the elements are combined in the whole movie. I still remember that a member of the dog who turned into a spy changed the circuit and poisoned all the "poisoners" present. If this kind of incident can't be implied that justice is transformed into terrorism, So can the decree issued at the end to protect the dog still not reflect the ridiculous and unbearable of this organization? Proposing the "death penalty" because of a trivial matter is not necessarily ridiculous if this is justice. This is the most obvious coincidence in this film. In order to reflect the two sides of the student movement, this film uses elements of historical events to re-engage the development of the story.
There are so many things in this movie.
Kobayashi was a so-called cat lover at the time, and the chief of staff of the Japanese invasion of China was Kobayashi Asaburo. The poison gas experiment or "human" experiment on dogs was something that happened in the Northeast. Splitting these elements out of history reassembles a film.
Next is Japan's bubble economy, which constitutes the world view of the whole film, "I was such a magnanimous dog, but I ended up like this" "I told you that you are not tall enough, so don't sit again." , deserted playgrounds, symbolic unfinished buildings full of concepts, all of which allude to various social phenomena caused by Japan's bubble economy. In the film, the most peculiar part of the plot is that the hero wants to be a tall ladder. At that time, the "leader" felt it was inappropriate, because "he was not tall enough", but the hero still went to play, and when he finally came down, he stood there crying. "Get what you shouldn't get", this is the most colloquial understanding of the bubble economy. In addition to this, there are scenes of scenes that the hero passes through in order to find the destination "Dian Dian", all of which allude to the desolation, the remnants of buildings, and a series of symbols.
The last part is the most important thing in the whole film, the so-called "proletariat" servility and "peace". I take the most obvious character, the self-proclaimed "leader" of a stray dog. There is a section in the middle of the movie that is deliberately designed with a black background, when the leader tells about his past, then this means that the director let us pay attention to this paragraph, the leader said that he lived for a while before, it knew that the boy showed kindness, but it Biting someone, its reason is "I don't know why". It is obviously a dog, but when the male protagonist in the film pleases him, he does not want to play with the male protagonist at first. Became the guard of the male protagonist, became a prominent dog, and gained the heart of a beautiful show dog. I replaced the leader with: the proletariat. Is there a big problem? Marx has a saying: It is society that determines consciousness, not consciousness that determines society. Roland Barthes said in his "Mythology": I believe that by considering "collective representation" as a symbolic system, people are not limited to revealing appearances, but can also penetrate into the texture of myth formation, and explore how it transforms the petty bourgeoisie. Culture is transformed into the culture of the whole society. They are better than what I said. I think they can quote a lot. What happened to society, just like Xu Zhuoyun's book title: "Is the World Sick?" 》
Zhang Qiu, the translator of "Hostages of Justice", wrote in the preface what we should think about: as the creator of history, why are people kidnapped, imprisoned, obscured, suppressed, ravaged, sacrificed, individualized by history? How people are successfully molecularized and fragmented, how are they "removed in the name of helping the group", how are they going "the road to slavery", how are they reduced to a statistical number, of course, And how to "do your human duty" to do what you think you should do. .
The director tells us such an absurd world in the form of a fairy tale, telling us about distorted history, strange times, confusion and such a world form, and finally, the symbol of true knowledge, kindness and brave "Diandian" became a shrine sacrifice. The object, behind the seemingly glorious, torii is like a prison, locking their family, the comfort of the body, the imprisonment of the mind. The so-called world is like this.
Radway says: We have reason to believe that people are capable of resisting the power of the media (though people's interpretation of texts does not always match the original intentions of their creators). I read some books on media criticism. The media is a powerful tool for the bourgeoisie to control the proletariat. Sometimes I think, is it really good to give the truth to the public? Is it bad to live in a dream? I've come to my senses that nothing is more important than being alive. Therefore, media critics, film critics, are "artists" in McLuhan's mouth, and we must transmit truth and equality and justice, which is "meaning". We must also lead the public to wake up from their dreams, to truly live, to know themselves and the real world.
After I finished speaking, I found that it has more than 2,000 words. In fact, there is too much to say, but stop here, more things, I hope friends who can read my article can discover and extend it by themselves.
The director did not give us a clear answer, the future direction, he just wanted the audience to think about the meaning, rather than deliberately seeking to transmit a concept like a film with a general purpose of interest. It is a good film, I hope everyone can watch it, and finally thank the director, this is really a film made with heart. And I woke up as if from a dream. Ah, this is our world. However, the film is still too explicit in the subject matter and loses part of the fairy tale, but this still does not affect the excellence of its occasional animation.
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