The film, directed, written and supervised by Makoto Shinkai, was released in 2011.
The story is that Asuna was attacked by a bear-shaped monster and was rescued by a mysterious boy. Then a mysterious boy named Shun left a parting kiss on Asuna's forehead, and the boy died the next morning.
I have lived in a single-parent family since I was a child. Because my mother works overtime all year round and has good grades in laundry and cooking, hidden behind it is the loneliness and loneliness that everyone will face.
Even though she was accompanied by a cat named "Mimi", Asuna was moved by the kiss on the forehead when Shun suddenly broke in.
Facing the bad news, Asuna chose to follow the "temporary class guide" to explore the underground world, Yagotai, in an attempt to find the gods and revive the people they care about.
shortcoming:
1. There are too many things to talk about, too obscure, such as life and death, love, civilization...
2. The dialogues like prose and poetry make the obscure stories more eloquent. So much so that the audience thinks there is a hole left unfilled.
After talking about the disadvantages, let's talk about the advantages and "pits".
One: Where are the stars, between life and death
First of all, the movie is called "Children Chasing the Stars". The stars refer to the stars that actually exist in the night sky. (Yagotai only has stars behind the gate of life and death, and there is the kingdom of the dead)
The mysterious young man, Shun, came to the surface world, saw the stars in the sky, and died in the morning sun the next morning. It seems that he is chasing after the stars, but the actual purpose of the boy is to meet tomorrow Cai, and tomorrow Cai is a living person.
Teacher and Asuna pass through the gate of life and death, resurrecting the people they care about. Here, the stars are the dead.
In the video, I contacted Asuna's dead father, the frequent discussion of death and life in the follow-up, and the teacher looked at the night sky with only aurora, and said, "A night without stars is disturbing. I am deeply moved. I deeply feel how lonely human beings are."
The theme of Children Chasing Stars is well explained. The pursuit of the dead is actually the pursuit of a kind of emotional sustenance. As written in The Peony Pavilion:
"Love doesn't know where it starts, but it goes deep. The living can die, and the dead can live. Life can't be combined with death, and death can't be resurrected. It's not the end of love."
Regarding life and death, the film also gave an answer: "Put all your memories in the song and leave it behind. The song will change its shape and be passed down, inherited in the vibration of the air, and unknowingly merge into our body. somewhere in the world, forever"
Shun's death, turned into a song, spread to Asuna's heart, and continued in the world in another form. The teacher's wife is looking for happiness, and she is actually immortalized in the teacher's heart.
2. Hello Goodbye & Hello
Some people translate it as "Meeting, Parting and Reunion", and the last "Hellp" is translated as "Reunion", which is inappropriate and may be a new beginning. See the video for details.
As a teacher, it is to resurrect the wife. Because he missed it, he didn't see his wife for the last time. This is a reunion.
Then Asuna, is she going to resurrect Shun? Maybe at the beginning, but as the plot progresses, after experiencing various encounters, parting with the teacher on the edge of the cliff, there is one less dialogue. The camera cuts to the heart on the other side. After that, the teacher gave the pistol to Asuna. (So, did Brother Cheng really consider the audience's receptive ability?)
Instant and heart
An instant, extended to an instant, is also a hint of Makoto Shinkai. An instant is a stillness, a past, a fragment, and the beginning of eternity, leaving a touch of beauty in the heart of a lonely girl.
Heart, Kechart who "guides human civilization", after losing his "heart", only a tyrannical shell remains. The heart is the memory, the moments, accompanied by the beating, are strung into eternity. ,
A young man named "Shun" appeared in front of the fantasy-filled Asuna, and a thing called "love" began to sprout. But Asuna didn't realize that the moment was a moment, and the moment passed, she still stayed in her own world. Until she met "Heart", she couldn't tell the difference between Shun and Xin, and the tender Germination could not distinguish the appearance of love. This was the clue given by Makoto Shinkai.
In the relationship between the underground world and the heart, Asuna grew up step by step. It was her approach that also influenced the teacher's final choice.
The teacher's wife said: "Looking for happiness". The heart of the sentence: "The living people are more important". Let the teacher recall the moments with the girl during the journey. There should be a few flashbacks here to increase convincing.
The teacher's wish is very simple. It seems that he will bring his wife back, but it is only because he has not seen the last side. Otherwise, after ten years of persistence, Ah Q would have wiped his heart on his neck long ago...
Hello Goodbye & Hello , translated as encounter, separation and reunion, is not appropriate, at least the second Hello, has the meaning of the beginning. This is also what the film wants to tell us, immersed in the beautiful moments of the past, it is impossible to take a step. Those who have passed away also hope that we will continue to find happiness.
3. Yi, Bloodline, Kechart, Underground Clan
First of all, "Kechart", originally the patron saint of guiding human civilization, was later hidden underground.
This refers to the fetish beliefs unique to human beings, such as cattle, sheep and pigs, wind, rain and thunder, the sun and the moon. With the development of human civilization, the earliest agricultural society has evolved into the current technological society. These ancient gods disappeared naturally.
And the pollution of Kechart also comes from human changes. From the reverence of nature at the beginning, to the vain attempt to enslave nature now.
At the 38th minute of the film, facing the whales 50 million years ago, in the eyes of the teacher, they are just objects that can be slaughtered at will. Kechart, who has lost his heart, is not our own. As in "Zhuangzi": "When the ruler is in government, don't be reckless, and when you govern the people, don't destroy and split. In the past, if you were weed and cultivated and were reckless, you were actually reckless and rewarded; reward."
The underground clans and the Yi people showed different ways of dealing with the outsiders like Tomorrowina.
Underground clans choose to expel, which is related to their religious society. What they pursue is to integrate with Yagotai. When the elder said about the heart, he was very much like the man on the ground, and he also implied that the heart had its own thoughts.
For the Yi people, the choice is to destroy, and in the face of mixed-race children and Tomorrow's vegetables, they launch an endless pursuit. They are afraid of light and water, and light and water are symbols of life. In an almost barbaric way, against foreign impure bloods, guard a civilization that has died.
THE END
"Children Chasing the Stars" is an excellent work, but due to Makoto Shinkai's old style and audience problems. The sudden style change made many viewers feel uncomfortable. But it is undeniable that Shinkai Makoto thinks a lot, and he tries to put it into his works and convey it to the audience. Compared with the domestic production of misappropriation, the former bears a kind of humanistic care and social thinking. Finally, thanks to Luye for the ideas.
——《Star を chasing う子ども》
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