This kind of growth film with "children's life" as the main content should not only show the growing youth cases, but also show the same depth of meaning and expression as other serious films, and should not be judged by the thinness of the child's perspective. Makes the movie itself pale. In fact, under such innocent children, the contrast between pure love and cruel destruction makes the whole film have a lot of tension. Although "Red Balloon" seems to be less passionate and more bland than the director's "White Mane Mustang" of the same period. However, if "Wild Horse with White Mane" is compared to a Chinese ink painting swaying freely, "Red Balloon" is a collection of meaningful European-style oil paintings. The former is a white horse galloping in the gray reeds. The latter is the cold blue-gray street, the hazy water traces flowing between the stone cracks, the street lamps with black iron brackets, and the last touch of gold in the setting sun.
It's a story full of contrasts. Flocks of children and lonely boys, passengers on buses and running through the streets and alleys to school, tall buildings and small him, dark and icy tones and warm and bright red balloons. In these contrasts, it seems that we can find our own traces. In the world, we are all lonely individuals, and everything we undertake, enjoy, and face is our own. Despite the high-sounding names of "groups" and "organizations", everyone is still like a lonely patient. In Disqualification in the World, it is said that "the unsolvable problems of the world are the unsolvable problems of the individual. The so-called vast ocean is not the world, but the individual." It is convincing. So, our friend may be a memory, a red balloon with no vitality but full of humanity, or an illusory dream and sustenance. Faced with the ruthlessness of the world around us, we cannot communicate with it, so we ask for some comfort.
This is how the whole film started, with a stronger sense of loneliness and helplessness in the contrast throughout, like a melodious and changing melody, a postcard with stray light and shadow, telling us a story filled with a touch of sadness. The protagonist of the story is a little stubborn and a little courageous, so people can't bear to be blamed and dare not destroy. His kindness and loveliness reminds us of ourselves unconsciously and brings us to the past. Everyone had a "red balloon" in their childhood. This "red balloon" is my little conviction and great joy. Just like Calvino in "The Path to the Spider's Nest", the teenager enjoys the secret of a spider's nest, like many wonderful stories in Andersen's fairy tales, Rowling's magical world. They use the remnants of innocence to create one after another magical and imaginative world for the children of this world with words. Obviously, Lamorris also uses the film to build a bridge between the indifference of reality and the soft heart.
Lu Xun said that tragedy is to destroy beautiful things for others to see. The teenager in Calvino's novels cannot integrate into the world of adults, and the world of children does not welcome him. This is a kind of tragedy. The boy in "Red Balloon" is also tragic. Not only is he lonely, but his beloved balloon is also robbed, ruined, and finally discouraged. He sits on the ground and looks at his red balloon sadly. In the bullying of his peers, he was so weak and hopeless. The film creates a dark and colorful, hopeless and beautiful picture with profound moral feelings and a restrained but bland melancholy atmosphere. Finally, all the balloons came to him, and took him up, up, up, and flew to the heights of the city, overlooking the whole of Paris. The corner of the child's mouth smiled lightly, making people feel distressed and want to cry.
The boy is lonely, and the red balloon is also lonely, they accompany and comfort each other. The red balloon that was slumped to the ground gave its life to the boy. Although in its life, there is no place to shelter. The sky is old, and Ren Hai is also old. I only hope that this love will never grow old. In this life, I promise that he will hug again in his life. Look, look, his innocent face.
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