I was sitting on the bus in the dark at night, watching "Devil Slayer: Infinite Train" with my headphones on.
I have to say that watching this film by night train is really more exciting than watching it in the cinema.
The dark compartment of the bus, the monotonous white noise, the shaking seats, the sleepy passengers, and the blurred night scene of the fast reversing outside the bus window really make you feel like you are on the infinite train, just like watching "Busan" on the high-speed rail. OK" is an immersive 5D movie.
As a theatrical animation created by the UFO Club, the screen production of "Infinite Train" can be described as the pinnacle of today's animation technology, with well-made pictures, a relaxed plot arrangement, hearty action design, and visually stunning breathing techniques. There is a final, oppressive battle, the third, which is outputting a feeling to the audience:
Cool!
The growth of the characters in the film, the beauty of the pictures, the resonance of emotions, all expressions are directly and unabashedly engraved into the hearts of the audience. I believe everyone who has seen it will agree that this is a masterpiece.
Aside from the plot and character analysis, what I want to say is the reason for the popularity of "Infinite Train".
Everyone who has read the comics of "Ghost Extermination" knows that the fighting scenes and combat power system of "Ghost Extermination" were painted in a mess in the original work. After the animation changes of the UFO Club, we have what we see now. to the visual breathing technique.
Therefore, the winning magic weapon of "Ghost Extermination" is not the explosive battle scene, but the warm humanistic care hidden under the juvenile's hot-blooded comics .
It can be said that for the author Crocodile, the fight is just a passing scene. The real drama is the memory after killing the ghost and the warmth conveyed by the emotional line between the ghost killing team.
In "Infinite Train", the warm emotional dark line and the visual bonus contributed by the UFO Club after the animation is like a game of big and small kings, and a king bomb .
In recent years, the social environment has always been particularly sluggish. After the rapid development of the last century, the real society seems to have entered a period of fatigue, and the economic and technological level has progressed slowly, gradually giving rise to the "high-tech, low-life" subculture of cyberpunk, which shows that human beings have the future. Disappointed.
After the bubble economy burst, Japan entered a period of 20 years of stagnation, and now it has become a low-desire society with negative population growth. And Showa's hot-blooded "Dragon Ball" and "One Piece" have left the era of passion, and today's loose generation has lost the enthusiasm of that era, and naturally they can't read that when readers saw Frieza and Super Race Asian passion.
Under the invisible pressure of the real society, the audience has been unable to appreciate the enthusiasm of the Saiyans who are constantly fighting to be the first in the universe. After all, on the crowded tram, people have exhausted all their strength just by breathing. (Not only talking about Japan), in such an environment, even the heroic Sun Gohan has become a Nobifan who is on the street. (Look at what kind of shit Dragon Ball is making now)
What the current era needs is not the bloody "Dragon Ball", nor the free voyage of "One Piece", or even Ghibli, because no one will dig out how much information is hidden in beautiful fairy tales under this fatigue. , hides the core of cruel tragedy, so the sequel of "Dragon Ball Super" is full of scolding, and "One Piece" has been maintained for more than 20 years.
In this era of more and more harshness between people, in this era of exhaustion, in this era of anxiety, and in this era of complaining words such as "involution" and "chicken baby", " Demon Slayer" comes with the tender Tanjiro.
Tanjiro's warm hand pulls us, this gentle current wraps us, briefly allowing us to breathe out of the torrent of reality's strife.
After experiencing the blow of the epidemic in 2020, people need a dream, a short-lived dream, to escape the harsh reality and hide in a warm dream.
So Infinite Train comes with a nightmare, a two-hour dream for all of us.
Those who hide in the dream in the movies can see the shadow of reality, and we can also see the shadow of ourselves.
In the black-and-white environment of public opinion, and in the constant harsh demands of people, we are eager to have people who are as gentle as Tanjiro to accommodate us. , the mature and reliable Yanzhu purgatory brother come to rely on, to bring us to break the game.
He aspires to be Zenitsu, who can be protected and tolerated even for trouble and cowardice, and Inosuke, who is energetic and able to advance by leaps and bounds at all times.
It was the times that called for "Ghost Extermination", and "Ghost Extermination" also responded to the times . The Japanese people who were fighting against the wall in a dead end desperately needed this bowl of hot soup to warm up, just as the United States treated Xiulan Deng during World War II. Paul's enthusiasm.
Therefore, the arrival of "Infinite Train" was crowded, and the box office and single-book sales of the pig's rapid growth directly overwhelmed the next-door big brother "One Piece" and Ghibli's "Spirited Away".
Finally, returning to the box office controversy, although the box office pig of "Infinite Train" has made a rapid progress and ranks first, in the final analysis, this is the effect of the times. Aspect, only as a cultural appreciation.
If in another ten or twenty years, when the world is no longer what it is today, the audience in the new era will not be able to experience the emotional resonance that "Infinite Train" brings us at this time.
Ghibli is still Ghibli, and it is a classic with a long history. Hayao Miyazaki's animated films have packed a lot of hidden information into the limited time and pictures without losing the superficial appreciation. Such animation is art. It is worth reading frame by frame. Just like classic literary works, when you read and study word by word, you will find a different world.
Therefore, the box office of "Infinite Train" is "era + movie", while the box office of "Spirited Away" is a pure movie. If the theaters can re-screen regularly, as time goes on, the box office of "Spirited Away" will steadily regain the top spot.
Of course, the box-office battle is just a meaningless wrangling between fans on the Internet. It's like arguing about Guan Gong and Qin Qiong. By the way, it will contribute to the popularity of the movie and social platforms. No film company will really keep these two works. Re-screening to differentiate.
After the infinite train derailed and rolled over, after the sun rose and dawn arrived, it was time for us to wake up and put the spiritual energy obtained in our dreams into real life.
In the next days of 2021, I look forward to the UFO Club's "Blade of Ghost Slayer: You Kuo" to bring us a good dream again.
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