The first category is children in a big environment. Generally speaking, I don’t like to attribute this kind of story to the category of children’s movies, because it is somewhat heavy, even though the movie may be very funny, the image of the child is very unique, but the background of war and national disaster It's kind of sad and sad for the child's premature maturity. The most impressive of this kind of film is naturally "Little Soldier Zhang Ga".
The second type is American, like "Home Alone", which uses children’s thinking to navigate the world of adults. Objectively, it is very funny and fun, and subjectively contrasts the absurdity of the adult world. This should indeed be a children’s movie. But it feels somewhat farce, I just watch the process.
The third is the childhood memories of some directors, like a prose, seeing the world of adults through the eyes of children. At the same time, in the process, children become adults. Of course, this process of change is somewhat bitter, "Dog Face" "The Years" belongs to this type.
The fourth kind of children's film is more maverick. It swept the world film scene three or five years ago, and that is the Iranian children's film led by Abbas. This kind of film is a bit too realistic. A child often has to solve some practical problems. In fact, it doesn’t have to do with age when you think about it. However, because the details are extremely real, the practice of being a child is fully demonstrated. For example, "Little Shoes" and so on.
Going back and talking about "The Years of Dog Face", someone translated the title into "The Years of Dog". Obviously, this is a story about dogs.
There are two dogs in the film, one is Lycra who was sent to space and starved to death. Ingmar believes that the dog was sent to space without the dog's consent, and that enough dog food has not been given, this is just for the advancement of mankind. This approach is extremely absurd.
Unfortunately, Ingmar's fate is exactly that, but he didn't realize it at the beginning.
My mother is sick, and my father picks bananas at the equator (the director is very bluffing). But as a ignorant child, he made his mother unable to recover from the illness at ease. There was no other way but to send him elsewhere.
This is obviously compulsive, especially when he was sent away, he lost his maternal love, so the scene of maternal love on the beach became his eternal memory.
The second dog in the film is Sika raised by Ingmar. When his mother was seriously ill, Ingmar and Sika completed the act of killing mothers together. Of course, this is a bit cruel, in fact, it can be explained by being ignorant. But the inseparable Sika was obviously the incarnation of Ingmar until he came to a new town.
This small town is an adult's world, and Ingmar's life has changed since then.
For a child, two catalysts are most needed in the process of growth, one is the explanation of love, and the other is the enlightenment of sex.
In this small town full of fairy tales, the deepest contact with Ingmar is of course the sexual enlightenment. Imagine that the patient is lying on the hospital bed looking at the woman's underwear, the process of the woman with the most beautiful breasts in the town becoming a model, and the girl player whose gender is temporarily misplaced.
Speaking of that girl, a large part of the film tells about the hazy feeling between her and Ingmar, but in my opinion, she is more like a ruler, watching her development and growth, Ingmar will realize I am also growing. As for sexual enlightenment, that model is enough.
Regarding love, Ingmar didn't realize it directly in this small town.
Although everyone in the town seems to be living in a fairy tale, the uncle is a crappy goalkeeper, but he is the maker of the summer house, the weird old man who plays with the spaceship, the sick old man who listens to women’s underwear ads, and that all day long. Crazy old man repairing a house. Everyone is very simple, everyone is very kind, but all these people can't give Ingmar love.
Although Ingmar lives in this fairy tale-like world, although he is very happy, all this is short-lived, he still has to find his love.
Mother, once again returned to Ingmar's sight.
But the mother's love is still only in Ingmar's memory, because his mother can no longer give him his mother's love, and even those small town experiences he is very excited about, his mother is not willing to listen.
Reality suddenly broke through the fairy tale.
The mother's death is not cruel, but the reality is too difficult for Ingmar to accept, although he knows this is the truth.
It's not just the death of the mother, but things about reality come one after another.
Back in the small town, the sick old man died, and the old lady also chose a new home.
Especially the uncle asked Ingmar to live with the old lady. Love was completely lost at this moment. Fortunately, the old lady's wise counsel made Ingmar calm down temporarily.
But growing up is not only love, but also sexual enlightenment. As a girl, Ingmar's ruler first realized sex, so in the contact with Ingmar, sex was further exaggerated.
But Ingmar's awareness of sex still exists only in curiosity. This step seems a bit sudden, and there may be tension and shyness that make Ingmar at a loss.
At this time, the girl cruelly told Ingmar that Sika was dead.
The Summer Hut was originally intended as a kennel, but it became a place where Ingmar bid farewell to his childhood.
Lycra is dead, Sika is dead, Ingmar's childhood is also dead, this is a sad ending. But also at this moment, Ingmar completed his nirvana in the kennel. He thought of his mother.
This is no longer maternal love, but love for mother. As a child, I enjoy maternal love, but people who grow up will show love to their mother. Ingmar blamed himself for the first time.
The world is not as cold as expected. Even a crazy old man can walk out of the cold water and sit in front of the hot boiler in the glass factory.
Blame the old man's space shuttle started again, and the girl took off the men's clothing. This time the failure was no longer a loft in the sky, but fell into a muddy pit, but growth has arrived, which is beyond doubt.
Ingmar's sexual enlightenment is not famous for the artist's statue.
Everything was restored to the original calm, everything seemed so natural, and still in harmony.
It's just that when Ingmar hugged the girl, we knew that the dog years were gone forever!
2006-9-13
Han Xi in Tongzhou
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