Don't be crazy, don't be magic

Adolfo 2022-04-22 07:01:36

If I were to define family affection, I would add a word called madness.

Everyone in this film doesn't look normal. The cute kid at the beginning suddenly grows into a strange-looking man. When riding a bicycle, the flesh on his legs is horrible; he always wears high-heeled shoes. The old grandmother, short and stout, blowing the whistle without stopping; the big fat dog who rushed to the window as soon as the train whistle sounded, barking non-stop; the three Meidu sisters who hunted frogs every day and ate frogs every day : The black-clothed villains who look like cubes and blend in with each other... What a weird movie this is!

The style of this animated film reminds me of Picasso, but the difference between the film and the painting is that the film is moving and the painting is still. During the dynamic process of the film, what we see is not just two-dimensional. The plane is a three-dimensional space, and the space shows us the story and the emotions or emotions behind it. I have to say that this movie has done a very good job in both the two-dimensional image creation and the three-dimensional dynamic aspects of the three-dimensional space. A small clip is touching and warm, with a cute feeling of cuteness.

A painting by Picasso

There are a lot of places in the movie that are unrealistic, bizarre and weird. Many characters in the movie never say a word. If it is not equipped with dog barking and other sound effects, it is not an exaggeration to be a silent film. . Even the emotional expression in the movie is not direct, straightforward, or normal like a real person. When there is emotion, you cry, when you are excited, you are happy, when you are nervous, you are afraid. The characters in this movie seem to have zero emotion in this film, or they have zero emotion on the screen. This is probably the most amazing part of this film, there is no laughter, no tears, no hugs... All emotions are experienced by the audience themselves.

I'm actually curious, why the orphan boy in the film didn't say a word to his grandmother, why he wasn't scared when he was kidnapped, why he wasn't happy when he was rescued... There is no doubt that traditional animation or films are in these places. It is to be deeply inked. The film hides these emotions, hides all the emotions, and presents the original story, so all the emotions and touches that the audience gets are not processed, pure, and the audience's own feelings. .

In fact, when many movies are filmed, they have to deliberately add a lot of things to express their emotions, from the simplest pain, excitement, hesitation... to complex love and hatred... It seems that no film director is willing to let it go. From the audience's own experience, this film is really unique, and it fits the romantic mentality of the French.

Back to madness, involving family affection, it can't be too crazy.

In order to supervise the training of her grandson, her grandmother rode a tricycle and followed behind, whistling loudly, and massaged him when she came back; in order to find her grandson, she rented a cruise boat and went out to sea, and followed the giant ship to an unknown place; in order to rescue her grandson, she took a risk At the risk of life, break into the base camp of the bad guys...

Grandma is cute and awesome.

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The Triplets of Belleville quotes

  • [first lines]

    Madame Souza: Is that it, then? Is it over, do you think? What have you got to say to Grandma?

  • [repeated lines]

    The Triplets of Belleville: Swinging Belleville rendez-vous / Marathon dancing, doop-de-doo / Voodoo, can-can aren't taboo / The world is strange in rendez-vous