—A rough review of the animated short film "Baby Bao"
Although the film "Baby Bao" is produced in American animation, it is full of Chinese elements under the guidance of director Stone Spear. The whole film may be more likely to resonate with audiences in China.
The scene of making steamed buns at the beginning, such as using a rolling pin, and eating noodles with chopsticks, Tai Chi, blessings on the wall, including the stringed instruments that accompany the whole film, etc. Chinese elements seem to tell the audience the narrative place of the story is in China , maybe this is telling a story that happened in a Chinese family.
As the animation implies, Bao Bao is a child who lives in most Chinese families. A child who is constantly growing up and constantly in conflict with his parents, Bao Bao Bao is a character who has been infinitely cared for and loved by his mother since he appeared on the stage. When Bao Bao Bao stretched out his hands, the mother's eyes revealed love. Mother panicked as she fell while babbling. The mother's worries and tackles all reveal her love for the baby when the baby is playing football with her companions. The mother is the image of a typical Chinese mother, who cooks, serves vegetables, buys vegetables, takes care of the children, protects the children, and even spoils the children. The portrayal in the film is more significant, and a father who has been shown on camera, in contrast to his mother, the father who is not enough in the scene may represent the lack of fatherly love in the family.
There is also a detail in the film that is pastry. Pastry appears three times in the text, and all of them inherit their unique meaning. The first appearance is when Xiaobao Baobao crawled on the counter to choose pastries when he bought pastries with his mother. One does not reveal the mother's love for Xiaobao Baobao, the harmonious coexistence of mother and son when eating cakes on the bus has a warm feeling
The second time was when the mother used cakes on the bus when Bao Baobao and other children were not allowed to play football.
The third time is when Bao Bao Bao took the initiative to show his affection to his mother when he had a conflict with his mother
The small objects in the film show the emotional connection between the previous and the next, making the emotional turning point of the film at the key point. They coincide with Bao Baobao's ignorance, the child's rebellion when he grows up, and finally the child's understanding of his mother when he grows up. And these three scenes are the collusion of the emotional line.
The climax of the film is when Bao Bao Bao has a girlfriend and is about to move out, the mother's reaction. When the extremely depraved mother can't stop the child from leaving her, she devours the official rupture of the mother-child relationship foreshadowed by the Bao Zi. Feeling remorse, the film's depiction of this emotion is not only a depiction of expressions, but the use of stage lights in the visual effect further strengthens the emotional effect of the drama.
Undoubtedly, this non-dialogue film is about the relationship between Chinese children's growth and their parents. It shows a sad story with a happy ending in a symbolic way of exclamation. It is not difficult to find that in the beginning of the film, the mother and the baby often appear in the same frame, and gradually the two no longer appear in pairs, implying that the relationship between the mother and the son will be farther and farther apart, but the setting of the reunion also proves Mutual understanding between parent and child over time.
In the film, the establishment of the character image is very obvious, but it is not difficult to find that the eyes of the characters are always slightly squinted. The author thinks that this image is slightly inappropriate because of the local culture and avoidance of suspicion.
This is the history of a child's growth and the love history of two generations. In this film, neither people who feel the same way nor unrelated audiences can comment on the right or wrong between mother and child, one is the worry and love for the child, the other is the independence after growing up, whether it is selfless or selfish, Is it true love or ruthlessness? Maybe every different character who feels the same way has a different answer!
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