Didn't surpass Second Five, but gave Second Five an exit

Demond 2022-04-24 07:01:17

Give it a good review, although the second five is too amazing and difficult to surpass, fortunately there is "chasing Hayao Miyazaki's children" as a foreshadowing, and the expectations will not be so harsh.

In short, it did not disappoint me-although many places are still involuntarily compared with the second five.

Since it can’t be avoided, let’s briefly talk about your feelings around the second five. The

background is still exquisite and beautiful, every frame is at the level of a high-definition desktop, and the sincere and proper

character outlines are still simple and realistic, which makes people look very comfortable, especially Colorful hair color, big eyes, dumb hair and the like have become the mainstream norm of Japanese comics today.

However, the color processing of the characters on some large-area green shots feels a bit strange. It

's a little disappointing that there is no harmless music, but if you think about it, the story of "Yan" does not unfold like a star in terms of time or space. , Clouds, Seconds are so grand, maybe such simple music is more suitable.

The story is still about love that happened in the city, the subject that Cheng is good at, let's learn a lesson - don't make a tribute like "chasing Hayao Miyazaki's child".

However, compared to Second Five's realism and helplessness from beginning to end, It's a complete change of style.

The romance of chance encounter begins, unfolds like a mystery, the heart-wrenching Gao Hu, and finally is a good ending that goes against the normality of Brother Cheng.

In fact, compared to the abnormality in the ending, the bigger abnormality comes from the character of the characters. In "Words", Xiaoxiong's positivity and bravery are enough to make Xiaoguishu feel ashamed, although there are far more precious trees in life than Xiaoxiong, and the failure after courage Much more than happiness.

The heroine can't be compared. After all, Yukino in "Yan" is a character with a very rich pen and ink, while Xiao Mingli is more like an existence as a reference point for the distance between two hearts.

Perhaps it is the hero and heroine who are different from the previous ones who deserve such a good ending that is different from the previous ones.

If the second five is to recall the memory with the resonance of reality, the mood is heavily suppressed from the beginning to the end.

Then "Yan" uses a beautiful story to evoke longing and let the mood instantly clear up with Yukino's crying at the end of the film.

Yan Ye did not surpass Second Five, but gave Second Five an exit.

The same is the eternal theme of Brother Cheng's works, distance.

Even the rare happy ending cannot avoid separation.

However, the future of two people who can walk without shoes is infinite, isn't it?

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Extended Reading
  • Jackson 2022-03-20 09:02:21

    As always refined and bright, chasing the equivalent small universe in the spiritual world in the minutiae. The story itself is still narcissistic and self-willed and unspeakable, but it does not detract from the beauty of the picture and the extravagance of details. The film cannot be placed in a large environment to seek philosophical or logical perfection. The saturation of emotions is its ultimate meaning. The color dialogue monologues of the pictures are all based on this axis.

  • Johanna 2022-03-30 09:01:06

    Xin Haicheng is still the postcard-style Xin Haicheng. Every frame is so beautiful, but is it really possible not to tell a story? ★★☆

The Garden of Words quotes

  • Yukari Yukino: I'm twenty-seven, but I don't feel any smarter than I did twelve years ago.

  • Yukari Yukino: I've always been here, stuck in the same place