Thoughts on "Steam Boy"

For the first half hour or so, I felt that the tone of the film was more serious, but when I started to "capture the ball" later, I felt a little stupid. A consortium entangled with a child and an old man for a long time and couldn't win it until later in the war. The feeling is that the whole film starts to go crazy from reason. One detail: During the war, the diving unit appeared on the scene, and the first diver went ashore to climb the steps and slipped down funny. The setting of this small plot makes me feel a little surprised. Isn't this a comedy anymore? The whole movie is one hour and twenty minutes, and seeing 80 minutes, I'm not very interested in the ending anymore. A teacher said that when writing a novel (the same in movies and TV, it is the story you tell), the beginning part should set your tone and make a contract with the audience. It's not that the plot can't be ups and downs. For example, if you write a tragedy, you can use some very warm beginnings to pave the way. However, the general tone is at least the same, and it cannot be serious before it becomes absurd. It's like the warm campus love story that I started to write. Later it was discovered that the woman was a Martian princess with super powers. As a result, the Martian king and the earth went to war. Finally, the boy gained strange abilities and defeated all the bad guys and unified the universe. This at least gives me a sense of nondescript.
In addition, Scarlett, the lover of the heroine here, whether she is a European-style little lady or a noble and arrogant and a bit naughty and innocent, seems to imply that the screenwriter is a hardcore fan of Vivien Leigh. Tribute to Scarlett in the wind. It's a pity that the only element of love in this film is portrayed very pale. The little girl always raises her eyebrows and looks at the sky. The style of a little princess is from beginning to end, and her inner feelings are empty and hard to resonate.
Logically, the bloody struggle between Dad and Grandpa could not be accepted naturally by the audience. And the iron thing they are fighting over, always feels like a black iron bucket of popcorn. It's just a little rounder, a little shorter. After 70 minutes, there is basically no logic. Don't ask why foreign troops fought directly inside the UK. Don't ask why the British have only dispatched the police instead of the army. Don't think about why there are so many weapons and equipment. He and the troops entered the British mainland without knowing it, and it was still a bustling area in central London without being discovered.
Acknowledge that the theme of the film is still good, it should be that science should benefit mankind and oppose war. But the means of expression is too much, which damages the artistry of the artwork itself. It's like Chen Kaige's former sage, who was screaming at that time. Brother Kai said that you will understand in ten years. From his words, it can be inferred that his Great Sage of Love still puts rich views and ideas, but this does not affect the fact that the Great Sage of Love is a bad film.
Baidu Encyclopedia said: ""Steam Boy" is the latest masterpiece of Japanese animator Katsuhiro Otomo. The creation of this film lasted 9 years and cost up to 2.4 billion yen (equivalent to about 181 million yuan). There are as many as 180,000 pictures and 400 3D paragraphs, making it the longest-lasting and most expensive animated film in Japanese history." So I came to watch with full expectation. Some of the static shots are really beautiful. , And can feel the 3D effect. But I'm sorry, maybe you have the highest investment and the longest history, but from this film I can't feel the artist's sincerity in art.

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