I really love animated movies like this. The creation in 1995 has not faded at all. The inner spiritual quality carried in the film is timeless and fresh, and it still makes people think for a long time today.
Perhaps due to the reflection on the truth of life and the irony of social development, Otomo Keyang's films can see a strong political color. The characteristic of animation is to exaggerate the plot of the characters, and feel the author's intention under the pull of this dramatic tension, which may be the charm of animated films.
I love all three episodes very much. The one with the strongest plot is the first one, which has a very complete narrative. As a mysterious unknown place to be explored, human beings have too much reverie about space. Using space as the background for the development of the story makes the film feel sci-fi, and the setting after the century makes it easier for the director to build his own rule system. In the plot, the director showed the image of a paranoid woman who could not be loved. She killed her lover for eternal possession, and set up a magical illusion to bury the two people who entered. The best thing to see is the pictures. The gorgeous and dilapidated are intertwined and presented. The changes of characters before and after the century have produced a unique dramatic conflict under the arrangement of the director. Rather than saying that the film expresses the future, it is better to say that it presents humanity through the shell of the future.
I remember watching the second part before, and I can clearly feel the irony of the director. As ordinary people, it is difficult for us to see the truth of politics and power. What role do individuals play in the huge social machine? Is there a certain moment when the individual will be given up and sacrificed without hesitation? The film does not give an answer, and watching it with a smile and a relaxed smile seems to dissolve the sense of depression revealed by the essence of the film. Yes, when there is nothing we can do to change it, we will choose to tell it in a comedy way, because the truth is always too heavy and depressing.
The third part seems to be telling, just like that, it tells the daily life of a family of three. There is no obvious dramatic conflict. The language in the newspaper in the picture can tell who the film is alluding to. In the film, the father works in an arsenal, and the mother works in a factory producing weapon parts. The children are taught how to attack the enemy. A country with a twist, drills and preparations to defend against a non-existent enemy. As for the children, what they will become in such a society and education is worth pondering, perhaps as full of helplessness as the children said at the end of the film that they want to become generals.
The last part had the greatest stamina, and after watching it, the picture fluctuated in my mind for a long time. A friend said that he thinks Japan is like this, too repressive and too strict. The film is a work of 1995, and the time in which the story is told is an important reference landscape for the film. On the other hand, in Japan in 1995, the economic bubble burst, earthquakes and other events made the citizens of this country constantly think about the past and the future.
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