I once said in a Ghibli running account in 2009: If Ghibli is a studio mainly producing fairy tales, then their fairy tales can be divided into "hard fairy tales" and "soft fairy tales". "My Neighbor Totoro", "The Fairy Tale of the Years", "The Tomb of Fireflies", "Kiki's Delivery Service", "Heisei Tanuki War" and so on are all "soft fairy tales". Supervisor Takahata, whose representative work "My Neighbor Yamada-kun" is a masterpiece, prefers to take realist films with warm colors, but he can also stitch anthropomorphic animals and real social life in films with micro-fantasy like "Ting Cat" Quite beautiful, unobtrusive. In Takada's animation, there are no wicked people, no jealousy, no resentment and other ugly points of human beings. Even in a movie with a World War II background such as "Grave of Fireflies", we do not see too strong and serious accusations of war. Tone. The faint yellow tones have faded the years of crying and smiling brothers and sisters into images of the past, and the original sorrow has also been diluted a lot. This is the energy I love that Ghibli brings to people. It uses simple but extraordinary characters to tell the eternal theme of human beings. It is full of philosophical thoughts but it ends. It is thoughtful and tolerant to talk with people, and it is so kind that there is no distance.
Most people think of Hayao Miyazaki as a synonym for Ghibli like the old rotten woods, but in fact, it is the supervisors such as Takahata, Mochizuki Soshitomo, and Kondo Yoshifumi who hold the military medal on the warm card. Apart from "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Kiki's Delivery Service" and other family-friendly animations, Hayao Miyazaki obviously prefers wild fantasy animations. In "Spirited Away" and "Howl's Moving Castle", it's blunt or hidden. They all come with harder settings, such as the mobile castle that is full of mechanical feeling, and the bicycles spit out from the mouths of the fish monsters who ran to Chihiro to take a bath, rubbish waste, and the earth The irony of the environment is obvious. The fairy tale color has also faded a lot. As for the "Nausicaa of Nausicaa in Nausicaa" adapted from Hayao Miyazaki's original manga that put Ghibli on track, the mechanical setting of the world view and the gray background painting suppressed the sense of justice. Compared with other works in the later period, it is less interesting, and it is a not-so-good work in Rotten Wood's heart.
Ghibli is accustomed to releasing new works from its studio every summer. The "Poppy Poppies" that Modu saw in Shanghai Studio 6 in June was actually released in Japan as early as last year, but for us it is The cluster is new. When you see Ghibli’s iconic blue Totoro logo projected on the big screen of Magic City, I believe this is the moment to realize the dream of every child who has watched Ghibli animation since childhood. At this moment, what we are looking at is not the small box-sized image presented by the compressed disc, but the thick film loaded in the silver box.
Miyazaki Goro's selection of materials this time is excellent. Rather than saying that he has been chasing in his father's footsteps, this "Poppy" is more like a work that combines the styles of many old Ghibli predecessors such as Hayao Miyazaki and Takahata: Ghibli has always implemented Ghibli’s “the most upright, the most common-looking, the most confusingly unrecognizable protagonist”; a pair of young boys and girls with a stable personality; taking family friendship and budding love as examples The natural wind of the main melody.
It is also a small and fresh work. Compared with "Ariette the Borrowing Villain" which was adapted from European fairy tales last year, "Poppy" is an adaptation of the comics of the same name in the country, setting the background of the era in the postwar period of Japan in the 60s Society, tells the story of the suspected brothers and sisters Toshi and Kokai living in Yokohama who are under the wheel of the times while saving the reluctant cultural and faith home-Latin House, while pursuing their life experience. Although in the process of watching the movie, everyone appeared from time to time that the plot of the "suspected brother and sister" Korean drama was too old-fashioned, but the main point of the whole film is the customs of post-war Japanese society: the advocating freedom and hobbies in the unfinished building Homestay boy student; living in the old family in the energetic boarding student; various people on the leafy ramp; delicate and exquisite, pots and pans, attic tables and chairs are implemented to the background painting with infinite details close to the texture of life, All make people infinitely fascinated by the Showa era. And the young boys and girls who have secret emotions in all this are embellishments like desserts.
If the representative color of "Golden Fish on the Cliff" is Shen Hou, the red and big blue representing the sky and the sky, the representative color of "Arietti" is verdant green, and the representative color of "Poppy" is the same The heroine's sea blue of the same name, this refreshing sea blue filled the posters and the whole film: blue is not only the blue of the sea, but also the heroine Matsuzaki Kai who is hoping for his father's return with a signal flag every day. She also wears a blue uniform and a blue head. Enthusiastic young students in blue hats. "Poppy" is also a signal flag played by Miyazaki Goro himself, showing the Ghibli of the next era.
Like Miyazaki Goro, who struggled with his old father for 300 days in real life, the young students who aspire to "the community's Latin building will not fall, the dream will never die" in the film are also so cute. Among this group of abandoned house children, there are little philosophers who have stayed in grades for several years and blush when they see a girl, and there is also a chemical weird who is suspected of demolishing the house after doing experiments, and even after observing sunspots for 10 years, they only come to the conclusion that "the universe has never changed. Nothing found" the scientific man with a shocking conclusion. Their cuteness and ridiculousness made the chairman who had decided to demolish the building to take his life back and smile boldly, once again confirming the youth truth that "all growth is a single consumption, and all indirect experiences are invalid for us." Compared with Jun and Xiaohai, who was struggling to catch up on the ramp of fate, the only student represented by the black man with glasses belly, Shiro Minuma, was born in his bones. This is the charm of the Showa era of 赈やか.
Coincidentally, this year's other Japanese participating film "Eternal Sunset 64 on Third Crest" also puts the background of the times in the Japanese society where the Tokyo Olympics is about to open. Both films are undoubtedly a nostalgia for the 60s when the people's customs and wisdom are gradually enlightened, the human touch is boiling, and the young people are full of vigor and vitality in the 1960s. (Coincidentally, the recent domestic chronological drama "Feng He Ri Li" remembers stories from the same period of mine. The fate of the hero and heroine is set in the same way as "Poppy". Compared with the bitterness of the former, the latter The author uses the cartoon's tolerant worldview to straighten out all the ups and downs.) "Poppy" is not only Miyazaki Goro's memorial to the time of his father's life, but also a love letter dedicated to Ghibli's internal historical development.
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The scene where Minasang applauded after the word "finished" was typed in the movie yesterday, let me and TOKA Zhuzisang was very touched, although during the viewing process, we complained about red scarves and green scarves, uncle male students, please rely on internal relations, because hairy boys never send girls to the door of the house. It can be said to be very strange! But at the moment the movie ended, we were quite religious.
When TOKA-san arrived at the scene, he said that you know that there are lances and short cannons underneath the first floor of the cinema. You can't even see the floor, and everyone is sitting on the ground. I want to die, isn't it? Watching a movie is like begging melon seeds. Although the organization of the words of conscience is a bit messy this time, and the red carpet announcements of the opening ceremony are full of loopholes until that time, this is really only once a year!
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