Three years ago, "Your Name" filled the last short board of Japanese animation director Makoto Shinkai with a fantasy and moving love -the story , and Makoto Shinkai finally reached the stage of success with this work and officially entered Japanese animation. The ranks of movie masters.
The global box office of "Your Name" even surpassed Hayao Miyazaki 's "Spirited Away" , so that the latter only regained the top spot with this year's rescreening.
The new heights of "Your Name" give us reason to look forward to Xin Haicheng's new work "The Child of the Weather" , which has just been released. After watching the movie, I think we also have a reason to say-Xin Haicheng was "returned to its original form." Yet?
Xin Haicheng is still that Xin Haicheng, with a highly realistic high-definition painting style, bright and vibrant colors, and any screenshot can be used as a wallpaper. Xin Haicheng's works have never disappointed visually .
I believe that many fans will once again look for the stills of "Weathering Son" on the streets of Tokyo, looking for the real scenes that appear in the animation. This is also one of the special pleasures that Makoto Shinkai’s animation gives us.
But Xin Haicheng is still "that" Xin Haicheng- he has returned to the art master Xin Haicheng who can't tell stories before "Your Name" .
You can find that the story of "Children of the Weather" is quite old-fashioned, almost copying the three-act structure of "Your Name" in form.
The two knew each other from meeting, from crisis to parting, from rescue to rebirth, almost exactly the same twenty or thirty minutes before the title appeared and the first song sounded, almost the same life and death struggle to save, almost the same hysterical Japanese drama run.
Even if the aesthetic fatigue of the fixed mode is excluded, the story of "Children of the Weather" lacks the support of dramatic contradictions and the laying of the characters' motivations as a whole.
Although the encounter between Fan Gao and Yangcai had twists and turns, there was not much ink, instead, they used a larger space to describe their "seeking rain" business. Although Yang Nai's "Sunny Girl" character and style of acting like Zhuge Liang are also very interesting, they are not enough to fully support the torso content of the film.
The turning point of the story, especially the process of revealing the price of "Haru Woman", was only passed through the silent whispers of Natsumi and Haruna and the short confession before Haruna's parting, and then quickly entered the next scene.
This kind of narrative technique makes the structure of the whole film like a dumbbell, with the two ends weighing lightly in the middle, and it is very difficult to lift. The result is that the degree of touching is very limited.
Compared with the narrative level of missteps, many netizens criticized the three views of the protagonist of the movie as "As long as you can fall in love, no matter how the flood is overwhelming." "What you refuse is the love of a god" in "Big Fish and Begonia" hurts, right?
But think about it, the two protagonists are fifteen or six years old, isn't it when they were in second form? What's more, after having chosen "sacrifice", Fangao and Yangcai realized that they could not accept the pain of separation, and finally reunited after the hardships. When faced with the choice again, be selfish and reckless. Is that understandable?
Besides, the protagonist in "Your Name" saved the whole village for love. In "The Weather Child", the protagonist has lost the entire city for love. It is also considered "come out and fuck, sooner or later," it will be the second and the dog. Sometimes blood is only between the lines.
It is worth mentioning that after "Your Name", the soundtrack produced by RADWIMPS again is as good as ever, adding a lot of color to "Children of the Weather", especially the song "愛にできることはまだあるかい" , I love it too much. Up! There is a more extreme view that Xin Haicheng's film that does not tell a story is like a super long and beautiful mv.
There are also several interesting "small eggs" in the film. For example , the two protagonists of "Your Name" Tachibana Taki and Miyamizu Mitsuba have friendly appearances .
Among them, Tachibana Taki and his grandmother became customers of Yangna and Fangao's "Pray for Rain Business", and Miyomizu Mitsuba sold the "love ring" that Fangao gave to Yangna. However, from the perspective of this separate appearance, it seems reasonable to guess that the timeline of the story of the film is still before the finale of "Your Name".
On the whole, "Children of the Weather" is still a pleasing work. Friends who may be familiar with Japanese literature and art in the story will find it too old-fashioned, but it is also smooth and natural. By the way, there are a few lovely "slots" that are unpleasant:
Makoto Shinkai seems to have a special liking for the "three years" time. In "Your Name", the time difference between Tachibana and Miyamizu Mitsuba's exchange of bodies is three years, and the reunion of the two protagonists in "Weather Children" also requires After three years, even the interval between the release of the two films is three years, and three years later, has Xin Haicheng watched "Infernal Affairs"?
It is said that the Japanese police are really shameless in "Weather Children". A 16-year-old boy easily escaped from the police station. There is still plenty of time to stage a long "Japanese drama run" scene under the public. , The last vote of the police was pointed at by a young man who had already fired a gun and did not dare to move. He could only say that the fate of being "assisted" was too solid!
Finally, not to mention the absurdity of the statement that "Japan was a sea 200 years ago" in the film. In reality, if Tokyo rains for three consecutive years, I don’t know what it will be like. The Japanese are obsessed with "Japan’s sinking." Is there any trace of fear in this kind of small and fresh works?
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