I went with three friends to watch the morning show at the Emperor's Theatre in Central. There were 4 people in the audience, so we could add comfortable seats and concentrate on the show.
It is strongly recommended that you make an additional special after watching it. You will find out how time-consuming and complicated it is to make this film. Many of the characters and dogs are shot in real-life scene-by-frame shooting. The production team pursues not only the quality of ordinary animations, but also the quality of each action and expression. Extreme. Audiences won't necessarily notice their intentions, but that's the slightest difference between what's fundamentally good and what's really good.
The character background composition and dark humor full of Japanese elements are a tribute to Akira Kurosawa, and the director himself is deeply influenced by it. The setting of the island of dogs in the film is particularly innovative. Each dog has a lively expression and is funny. Among them, the most profound part is in the film where the boy takes a plane to search for the dog. In the face of the totalitarian government forcibly sending the dog to an isolated island to fend for itself, most people dare to be angry and dare not speak, but they choose to remain silent and resign, but the boy chooses to resist and finally wins. It is actually very difficult to be able to bravely say no to social injustice, especially when being suppressed. There used to be a group of young people in Hong Kong who burned their youth to fight for the core values that were gradually being eroded.
This film is definitely worth watching, in order to appreciate the extreme production.
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