After watching this film, I went back and rewatched "The Fantastic Daddy Fox". Usually, the reason why I go back to rewatch the director's last film is that the look and feel of this one is not particularly good. It's a bit like and After dating, the new girlfriend found out that the ex-girlfriend had a better experience, and it was a stop-motion animation of fairy tales. This movie was a little worse than "Fox Dad" in terms of plot and social reflection, and it didn't resonate with me. "Fox Dad" is more family-oriented, and this film is really just to see how cute the dogs are.
This fairy tale created a society where cats and dogs were opposed to each other out of thin air, and then created a background in which humans expelled all dogs. This setting does have the feeling of "no difficulties create difficulties, but also to go up", there is really no sense of substitution, After all, Japan is a democratic society like the United States. Is it good to forcibly shape it into a "dictatorship" society? And this background is also set in Japan. Of course, the status of dogs as pets in Japanese society is indeed inferior to cats, but there are also national dogs such as Akita Inu, which is "one cat under ten thousand pets". And since the background is set to "hate dogs" society, but the whole film basically does not appear in the whole film "dog slaves" who resist under the oppressive environment or people who miss their dogs. This is an incredible thing, and the element of cats is basically ignored. , and there is no talking cat. When I watched the film, I really wanted to see the cat family stand up and talk, but they didn't. The film itself is still the theme of "A Thousand Miles of Dogs", but because the stereotype of Japanese boys and other Japanese characters is not very good, it may be better if the same theme is controlled by people like Hayao Miyazaki. But stories like "The Adventures of a Gang of Talking Dogs and a Little Boy" are also a bit "outdated" themselves, and they are all stories that are basically untouched in Japan.
When I was watching the film, I didn't like those stereotyped characters who could only speak Japanese. If someone watched "Your Name" and then watched this film, they would feel that the Japanese in the film were all Japanese. is a robot. If there are Japanese animation producers involved in this film, the male protagonist must be more lively and cute than this film. It is probably the image of Nobita in the robot cat, and the character is a little stronger. The foreign heroine must be Jin Changzhi. More like real Americans, and sure enough, Americans are more skilled at portraying themselves. In addition, Europeans and Americans in Japan have long been less explosive, which can be regarded as a stereotype of Europeans and Americans in Japan. But on the other hand, the European and American characters in Japanese games and animations are basically similar to the Japanese. It is difficult to create foreign characters without any social experience. The other male protagonist's name is. . . Atari? That heroine should be called Nintendo.
The level of the cute dogs in the film is basically the same as that of "Fox Dad", and the highlights in this film are all in "Fox Dad". Since the method of selling cuteness by staring at the camera in a daze has worked, the most fun is of course the "prophetic dog" who can understand TV. The charm of the dubbing also saved the film's portrayal of the characters a little. Lao Bai's voice is very recognizable. Second, Norton, Jeff's voice can also be heard a little bit. After all, Scarlett's voice is basically her only one of her lines and scenes. There are many dogs, and Lao Bai's arrogance is the highlight of this film, but I watched it again and found that Lao Bai's domestication was too simple, and it seems that the whole film is depicting the "slavery" of the dogs. "Dogs are cute because they love us, not servility.
I hope wes' next freeze frame can choose a better theme.
ps, bgm that drum prelude is too much like a northeasterner playing in the mud
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