you are the future

Damon 2022-04-21 09:03:52

Hosoda Mamoru's work, "Future of the Future", after its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, went all the way to the Oscar nomination for best animation, becoming the first Japanese animation not produced by "Ghibli" to be nominated for the Oscar for best animation. The story mainly tells: the parents of the family after giving birth to the second child, because of their greater concern for their sister, the elder brother's need for love and jealousy of the younger sister are aroused... From this point as an introduction, use the perspective of intervention and inspection to experience Philosophy of life. Through chaotic travel, I saw my younger sister who will grow up to be a high school student in the future, I saw my childhood mother who was the same age as myself, I saw the young grandfather who was an adult with my father, and I got a taste of the ideological realm in different periods of life. . When you scold a child for being naughty, you used to be just as mischievous as a child. When you despise the old people as dirty, they despise their dependence on the juniors, and the irritability of long-term illness without a dutiful child occurs, you will find that when you get old, you will also need to rely on the care of the juniors and even drag them down. . . The little male protagonist in the film is very cute, he likes to play rascals, he is about three or four years old, he likes to cry, laugh and make trouble. It shows the daily life of the family very vividly, including the dog barking when someone knocks on the door, all of which are very real. It's just an average-looking, rather bland story. There are no big ups and downs. Like boiled water, there are no waves in the ancient well. Therefore, the ratings are not high, and the reputation is not very good. But this is the first Hosoda Mamoru work I've seen, so it doesn't have a gap like the old fans, at least it can resonate with me, and the look and feel is not bad, 7 points can be obtained.

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Extended Reading
  • Domenica 2022-04-07 09:01:07

    What I think is bad in Son of the Monster has been subtly translated into what is good in this film. This time, Mamoru Hosoda no longer looked left and right, and directly scattered bits and pieces in all parts of Hakoba, forming leaf veins and branches in various "underworlds", detaching from the narrative of time, and taking a small shinkansen to observe the diluted Memories, playing the road movie in the little box garden, looking forward to every little move that will tie your and my history together.

  • Thora 2022-04-07 08:01:01

    Hosoda Mori can't watch anymore, the same goes for Makoto Shinkai. Seeing that Japanese animation is slowly turning into a promo for the second child, um, I feel the pressure of your negative population growth.

Mirai quotes

  • Mirai: You did it again. You tried to hit me with your bullet train even after Mom told you not to.

    Kun: But it wasn't a bullet train!

    Mirai: You aren't supposed to use a bullet train to hit people.

    Kun: It was a Super Azusa.

    Mirai: [angrily] I don't care what kind it was!

    [scoffs]

    Mirai: And why can't you be a little nicer to Mom?

    Kun: I don't know, I just can't.

    Mirai: It's her one day off from work. She doesn't get many and she has to spend it fighting with you. Come on, try.

    Kun: [sniffling] I know... I'm not cute.

    Mirai: Huh?

    Kun: [crying, wipes tear from his eye] Both Baby Mirai and Yukio are really cute. Not me. I know I'm not that cute anymore.

    [continues sobbing]

    Mirai: Oh come on, that's not true. You're very cute!

    Kun: [walking away]

    Mirai: You're the cutest! Adorable!

    Kun: [crying harder; runs away]

  • Kun (High Schooler): [off-screen] That's just awful. Yep, a complete wreck. I'm talking about your attitude. Boy, does it stink.

    Kun: [looks inside train station, sees a high schooler sitting inside] Hello?

    Kun (High Schooler): You're supposed to go camping, am I right? Catch bugs, watch fireworks, all that stuff. And you guys will be staying at your grandparents' place. It's the summer you've all been looking forward to. Think of all the happy memories you could be making together. But instead you don't wanna go. Why is that?

    Kun: Uh... how do you know? Who are you?

    Kun (High Schooler): What's more important, the color of your pants or your memories? Well, it's your choice. Just go home and say you're sorry already.

    Kun: NO. I do NOT like them.

    Kun (High Schooler): What?

    Kun: [referring to his pants] AND I WILL NOT WEAR THEM!

    Kun (High Schooler): [getting annoyed] No, you do not not like them.

    Kun: [as a train appears] No, I don't not not like them!

    Kun (High Schooler): No, you do not not not not like them!

    Kun: Yes, I do NOT not not not like them!

    Kun (High Schooler): NO! You do *not* not not not not not like them!

    [train pulls into the station. Doors open]

    Kun (High Schooler): Don't get on!

    Kun: Uh...?

    [looks back in hesitation]

    Kun (High Schooler): Stop! Don't get on, 'kay?

    [whistle blows. Kun glowers at high schooler and bounds for train]

    Kun (High Schooler): No! Wait! Wait!

    Kun: [glowers at boy as the train pulls away]

    Kun (High Schooler): [gazing after it in disappointment] Little brat.