Recently, Beijing has suddenly cooled down. Looking out of the window, it is painfully white. The word miserable is used here to express my sense of powerlessness. I always thought it was because the weather was too hot that I couldn't watch a movie properly, but I found that even in today's 22-degree temperature, I still disgustedly engraved several classic movies on the back of the mule into purple light.
A few days ago, I pulled out Howl's Moving Castle from a cabinet of burning discs. Toshi Miyazaki's work in 2004 was dragged by a mule about a year ago and pulled into Baofengyingyin. I was shocked, but I could understand it. Oh, it's the Chinese version of the next. It is still a magical world, a super handsome hero who can fly, a persistent, kind and lovely heroine, a sea of flowers, mountains, war, well, I admit, I am moved. Hayao Miyazaki is always beautiful.
Ah, there are so many cartoons released, let's do one a day and get them done. This afternoon, "My Neighbor Yamada-kun" came out. Hayao Miyazaki retired from the rivers and lakes in 1999, did STUDIO GHIBLI have any masterpieces? Takahata Isao supervised the production, it should be worth looking forward to.
At the beginning, I thought it was the beginning, but when I found out that it was all like this, I was startled again. The painting style, like a primary school student, is surprisingly simple. None of the backgrounds are complete. The protagonist has eyes and a nose. The pedestrians on the street and the classmates in the classroom are represented by a circle and a triangle. Seemingly messy, seemingly indifferent, but it is immediately refreshing. The four-panel comic has become a movie, and I felt that way at the time.
The colors are also terribly simple, the face, pink, table, light brown, only the background that is often overlooked, a little bit of magic, and it is colorful, hehe.
It's my usual practice to start a movie for 10 minutes, and if I can't watch the movie, I have to give up or delay it. But Grandma Yamada made me laugh in less than a minute. The childish voice of the little girl said: This is the sun, this is the moon, this is the mountain, and below the mountain is the earth...... This is grandma... While painting, grandma appeared holding the dog, walking past a flower shop. "I've never seen such a beautiful..." The owner was very proud, and I was very stunned. Grandma Yamada said, "I mean this caterpillar!" The background music "La la la..." The caterpillar said, "You will definitely grow into beautiful butterflies like flowers." What a lovely grandma, the butterflies are flying and beautiful like flowers.
The little girl continued to introduce, it turned out that her name was Nonoko, she was beside her fat mother, and this was Mrs. Yamada. Mrs. Yamada is a housewife, because she dragged her cheeks thinking about what to eat for the evening, well, she decided to get the leftovers from last week and last week to eat. Cute fat mom.
Dad and brother appeared, and the background music suddenly stopped because it was a serious moment. My brother asked Dad, "What will be the use of what I'm learning now?" , a father who is very face-saving: "What seems useless now will be useful in the future, and what seems useful now may not be useful in the future..." Crackling, confused, other than himself, other people can't understand. Lovely serious moment.
The whole film is filled with such broken thoughts, such nonsense, and such seemingly calm, but until the end, my heart is like being surrounded by a stove, very warm and very moved.
Like a novel, it is divided into several chapters, summarizing it with narration and words, but it seems that it is not a summary, just an expression. Every time the narration appears, looking at the still pictures and text, I feel like a piece of steamed bread has been baked.
The family has disputes and misunderstandings. It doesn't look so harmonious, but they are still happily huddled by the kotatsu. This is our ordinary life. When it rained, my father couldn't come back at the station, so he called my mother to send an umbrella, but my mother pushed it to my brother Ade. Ade and my mother pushed it around. My father was impatient: I'll buy one myself. Mom said: Then let's buy meat by the way. Dad went to the supermarket unhappy, bought umbrellas and meat in a sullen mood. My family didn't care about me. Dad probably thought so. But on the way home after opening the umbrella, there were his mother Ade and Nonoko who came to pick him up. Pushed and pushed, and finally came, this is a family, four people go home together in the rain, a small world full of happiness.
In the face of the barbarians, grandma replaced Dad in an instant. As the head of the family, Dad's cowardly personality was exposed, but would he hate him? No, he goes out early and returns late every day to support the whole family. He is also a hero. But Dad still imagines himself turning into the Moonlight Mask, punishing the bad guys and rescuing his family. This is his weakness and his self-esteem, who said that every man must go to the battlefield and charge into battle.
There is no absolute connection between several stories, and there is no so-called small climax or major turning point in the whole film. But every little story is a perfect journey, and every little story will grab our hearts and let us read them one by one, not enough, or not enough. The simple picture seems to be inconsistent with the style of Totoro and Spirited Away in the studio. Slowly I found out that this style of painting is precisely to integrate with these stories. Ordinary citizens, going to school, going to work, playing and quarreling, do not need gorgeous packaging. Keeping their true colors and embodying their innocence is the director's true will.
I have always been very sensitive to music, and I found that Japanese people are really good at mastering background music. From the previous game development to the current documentaries, it is not just a matter of adding a few pieces of music. Basically, musicians are asked to make them carefully. These specially crafted music, as if existed for the sake of the image, complement each other. There are many domestic films that need to be reconsidered. There are Japanese films with excellent music, as well as Yoko Kanno in Shimotsugi Monogatari. A good movie soundtrack will be good music if you listen to it, but if the film loses it, it will not be so perfect.
Yamada-kun's music is all simple tunes. I thought of a sentence a long time ago: the two tracks will decide the outcome. One track may be monophonic, but with two tracks, the soundtrack can be done. A warm and romantic family life is inseparable from the enhancement of music, and equally nonsensical dialogues and actions must also have their theme songs. And every time those perfect joints will make people smile, and then choke, because the small world they bring surrounds us.
Showing patriotism, freedom and democracy, or showing superb film skills can bring huge box office and be sought after by tens of thousands of people. , as long as there are good stories to tell, as long as they are close to our hearts, there will be no less significance and impact than blockbusters.
My afternoon with the Yamada family was, well, very pleasant. Eat a raisin, sweet.
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