When the Shanghai Film Festival was screening, the audience exclaimed, why there are no subtitles from beginning to end! In fact, including simple words and explanations, "The Magician" has about 30 lines of dialogue. However, if there are no subtitles, the movie will not be too affected. In addition to tribute to the silent pantomime, "The Magician" is mainly dedicated to the comedy master Tati, and Tati sent this affectionate letter to his daughter. The movie is about the declining profession of magician, but what I hope to restore is the emotion between father and daughter. For ordinary viewers, "The Magician" is a family letter written by a father to his daughter, hoping that she will grow up alone. There is no sensational picture, no fabricated bridges, only one sentence: There is no magician. There is no omnipotent magic in the world, and it is impossible to conjure all kinds of things you want.
If you put aside the father and daughter, then "Magician" again manifests as a nostalgia for the old times and old craftsmen. Under the street lamp suddenly looking back, everything from the past became better. Faced with emerging rock music and consumerism, the isolated magician can only be defeated. This is a necessity and a kind of helplessness. In the eyes of more people, "Magician" is also a tribute to the movie itself, and it can even be seen as a fascination with hand-drawn animation. Sylvia Jomai can concentrate on creating a hand-drawn cartoon for so many years. Before the wave of 3D animation in Hollywood, he really looks like an old magician with "degraded skills". When everything becomes global, the people who guard hand-drawn animation are really worthy of our respect. Otherwise, the hand-painted boutiques like the old domestic animations can only be displayed in the museum one day, no one defends, it is very sad. 【Fashion Weekly】
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