As a viewer who regards bugs as beasts of floods, it does take a lot of courage to watch this movie, but I am curious about what the grassland is like with microscopic eyes. The trees in the wilderness swayed in the wind, the grass was rolling like waves, and every insect in the microscopic world was clearly displayed. It's very strange, and I don't know if I'm mentally prepared. In reality, I see caterpillars that will scream loudly, but at this time, I think their wriggling shapes are very interesting - black dots of different shades under the green leaves. . Even the praying mantis doesn't make me so terrified, but so heroic.
There is hardly any human language in the entire film, except for the soundtrack, which is all natural sound. The subtle scenes that we don’t often see are staged like no one else: how the dew drops gradually disappear in the sun, how the vines climb up the strips of paper and turn around at the top, how the flowers open and close little by little, the flowers How to rub pollen on bees while they are gathering honey, how two snails communicate, the most interesting thing is the self-pity of a snail in front of a small puddle after rain.
In the dry season of the grassland, the earth is cracked a little bit, and the somewhat strange blue caterpillars are lining up to migrate one by one, but it seems that their vision is not sensitive enough, and they can only follow the taste and trajectory of the former. When the two teams meet, this way The result was that they formed a circle and kept going in circles in place, and gradually there was a scorched corpse in the circle, which was so shocking. In the microscopic world, they do not know the direction and goal, and follow blindly, just like deliberately creating obstacles for ants when they were young. But in the eyes of the microscopic world, they appear so huge. Perhaps the same is true of the world around us. Our horizons are too narrow and we see too little, so we cannot bear the setbacks.
In the rainy season of the grassland, the sound we hear is "huahuahuahua", but for them in the microscopic world, each sound is like a bomb, "dong", "dong", "dong", heavy objects hammer the ground like this. The film alternately contrasts the world we see with insects, and the sound changes back and forth, showing just how powerful rainstorms can be on insects. While there are some bugs clinging to the leaves of the plants to hide under the leaves, I always feel like every drop of rain makes it fall. Compared to humans, they are insignificant, and human rain shelters are far more advanced than them. I don't know whether the arrival of the rainy season that they have spent in the dry season is a blessing or a disaster. Either way, it is nothing but a natural test, even if it is small, it has its own rules and abilities for survival.
This movie always makes me feel the beauty of life. If the broken chrysalis of a butterfly is beautiful, the hatching of a small caterpillar is so cute. But the most unacceptable thing for me is that I will quietly watch the hatching of the larvae without any intention of fast-forwarding. At the beginning, the long shadow on the water and the light yellow fluff on the neck reminded me of the mountain god in Hayao Miyazaki's "Princess Mononoke", mysterious and noble, but when those six long legs and sinful long legs gave me goosebumps. I didn't realize until my mouth was completely exposed - this thing is actually a mosquito! How do I think it looks good. . .
In the microscopic world, this undisturbed world, every creature lives step by step. I don't know whether to call them hard work or to call them comfortable. I remember when I was watching the animal world when I was a child, my grandmother said next to me that animals are much simpler than people, and it seems that there is something to eat. However, their lives seem to be a bit ignorant, but perhaps it is the same as "the joy of knowing the fish is not a fish", what I see is only a corner of their world, and it is impossible to understand them.
The Luzi in "Onmyoji" also said that the world loves butterflies, but is afraid of caterpillars. That kind of love is false. If you really like it, you should like to understand the predecessors of butterflies and the process of their transformation. I just like the other perspective brought by this movie, but I can't just rely on it to get rid of the innate fear of those bugs, plus there are too many distractions, I can't understand, and I'm too lazy to understand, just be I am also just a sojourner, occasionally seeing the microscopic world through the eyes and hearts of others.
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