Holiday life is more trivial than usual, and time becomes lighter and lighter. With a swipe of clear water, the days will instantly disappear in the water marks.
In "My Neighbor Yamada-kun", it is said that the most terrifying thing in life is not the stormy sea, but the dullness like dead silence, because the back of the dullness is full of dangers. How to resist the ordinary and the bland? To discuss such a serious topic, the film uses a light-hearted tone. Japan's Studio Ghibli is famous for its masters such as Hayao Miyazaki and Gao Yanxun. Most of their products depict the extraordinary world where humans and gods coexist, such as "My Neighbor Totoro", "The Witch's Delivery Service", " "Princess Mononoke", "Princess Goldfish on the Cliff", etc., but this "My Neighbor Yamada-kun" is an exception. There are no gods and elves, and there is no redemption and adventure. There are only ordinary families and small daily life. .
Because it is adapted from a best-selling four-frame comic, the film still retains the style of the comic, but boldly uses the form of watercolor animation. This form of pencil sketch and watercolor reminds me of a series of ink animations produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in China in the 1960s and 1970s, such as "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother", "Three Monks", "Shepherd Flute", etc. Wait, that is a classic of Chinese animation. The general use of traditional Chinese ink painting's agile, virtual and real composition, as well as the rendering of a magical brush, makes the animation film not only maintains the childlike interest, but also the pictures are artistic and poetic. The inheritance of the spirit of painting is also the representative work of oriental style animation, and there is still no domestic work that can surpass it.
It is a pity that works like this that require manual drawing and a lot of artistic investment are gradually being ignored. In addition, at that time, they began to be influenced by Western animation culture such as Disney. The road to Japan, obviously, no matter in terms of technology, capital, equipment or creativity, there was a very big gap in China at that time, so the classics are no longer. In fact, in a sense, this is the difference between large-scale machine production and craftsmanship refinement. The former is naturally fast, abundant, and cheap, while the latter certainly represents expensive and refined. The commercial market that pays attention to the return of profit often chooses the former in order to obtain the protection of interests. However, there are many examples of people who take the route of hand-made refining, which not only win word of mouth but also make profits, such as Rolls-Royce, Swiss watches, etc. And, of course, this is a successful minority.
In fact, Studio Ghibli also encountered the same problem. Because of the requirements for the excellence of the picture in the watercolor animation of "My Neighbor Yamada-kun", it is said that the cost remains high, which is not proportional to the subsequent box office revenue. As a result, Gao Yanxun, who was the supervisor, once faded out of the studio after the film was released.
Life is always confusing.
Yamada's family, like many ordinary families in Japan and even in the world, has an elderly person, a working husband, a wife who is a housewife, and two children. They also face the joys, anger, and sorrow that drift through the river of life. ,fun. How can I freely swim in it sometimes, and sometimes just sit on both sides of the strait, stay out of it, and smile away? The film uses a full-screen story and a haiku switch at the end of the clip to deal with and express such ease of advance and retreat. In real life, in Yamada's words, only "unlimited tolerance" and "eternal hope" are needed.
Looking at the small life of the Yamada family in front of the screen, there will naturally be a little warmth in my heart, and it is also like savoring the "little happiness" mentioned by Harukami Muraki: small but exact happiness. If I want to add another word to "tolerance" and "hope", I think it should be "peace of mind". Su Shi said, "This place is my hometown." Because of peace of mind, there are scenery and customs everywhere, like a glass of still water, which can hold everything into the heart, it is a transparent reflection, it is light, it leaves no trace, and Elegant.
Peace of mind because of love.
Recently changed the background music to "Love is a flower, you are that kind of seed".
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