comedy shell, sad core

Skylar 2022-04-21 09:03:02

Animation in 1994, there is no shortage of glimpses of the 21st century.

The civet cats are undoubtedly kind, forgetful and optimistic by nature, so they challenge human beings, like wandering soldiers, lacking in strategy, and self-defeating, but it is precisely their failures and irony throughout the film that make the film born The sense of joy was dubbed "comedy".

It's just that kind of "happiness", if you laugh and laugh, you can't laugh... It's the shell of comedy, the core of sadness!

So, today, those foxes and civet cats who may still exist in human society, under the neon lights, busy with traffic, walking alone, are you used to bowing your head and hurrying on the road? What about the rabbits and mice who have never learned the "Disguise Technique", are they afraid that one day there will be no living space, and the whole family will be destroyed and become the historical fossils in the museum?

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Extended Reading
  • Troy 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    DVD online shopping failed, it is Italian version, neither English subtitles nor French subtitles, let alone Chinese. I read it with my daughter in Japanese, which I don't understand at all, purely by sight. Daughter said to give five points. There are comments that Takahata is inferior to Miyazaki in the story structure. But this kind of sloppy narrative and group portrait performance is my dish and my pursuit. As for the political orientation of this film, of course, it is not as simple as environmental protection, but close to the Japanese romanticism: turning the local spiritual world (Shintoism, folklore, ritual and wild...) into pantheism and into "supernatural naturalism". This intention, in a nutshell, is certainly not unique to Japan, and is a universal reaction-experience mechanism of modern capitalism.

  • Garry 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    In the face of reality, no matter how hard a dream is, it is just an egg. Even if he doesn't want to, Peter Pan always has to make a contract with the society and pretend to live as an adult. I don't know where is home, I don't know how to resolve...

Pom Poko quotes

  • Gonta: What good did it do? You idiots. You think that will stop the developers? Don't just frighten them. We need to hurt them. Inflict some serious pain!

    [He makes an emphatic gesture with his arm. He stops and winces, then doubles over in pain]

  • Tanuki: [singing and carrying Gonta] Moon, moon, moon shine bright, moon shine bright, so bright and long/ Shine, shine, shine on Gonta, pom poko pom pom, pom pom pom/

    OshoOroku: [singing] You showed the world what we can do, now

    Front crowd of Tanuki: [chanting] We have the greatness of Oroku, too!

    Tanuki: [singing] All our friends are cheering for you/ That's the truth, we adore you/ Hail to Gonta, he's our god!/ Pom poko, pom pom, pom pom pom!

    Newsreader: [as the Tanuki chant Gonta's name in the background] ... Nevertheless, a government spokesman stressed that the people of Tokyo are in such desperate need of living accomodations, that the new Tama development project will not be delayed, despite today's tragic accidents.

    [the tanuki stop celebrating and drop Gonta in surprise. They rush towards the TV, trampling Gonta in the process]

    Newsreader: I repeat...

    Narrator: It was, needless to say, an unfortunate accident. Gonta, the mastermind behind the dangerous attacks against the humans, now suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries, that would take nearly a year to heal.