As a non-dialog film, I think the biggest feature is that it increases the possibility of interpretation. Because of its particularity, almost every detail in every frame of animation is the expression of the director’s thoughts. This interpretation has more possibilities. So that a thousand readers make a thousand Hamlet. The rich pictures, the realistic style of painting, and the length of more than one hour make the movie more difficult to control than short films such as "Father and Daughter". In my eyes, "Red Turtle" may be regarded as a failure to control. ...I
mentioned "Father and Daughter" earlier, and you can know it after a little inspection. It is the director's masterpiece, telling the story of a daughter who spends her entire life watching the father's return. The profound content contained in minimalism made it the best animated short film in the 73rd Oscar. The viewing experience of just nine minutes is enough to make people feel satisfied. It is recommended not to miss it if you have time. And if you watch "The Red Sea Turtle" after watching "Father and Daughter", it will be easier to understand what some of the directors want to express, thereby reducing a lot of meaningless arguments.
In my opinion, "The Red Sea Turtle" is a work with more symbolic significance than logic. There are many plots in the movie that seem unreasonable. They are more like setting up to express a behavior or process, although I have to admit that this is where the director's control fails. Whether or not to pay attention to this point, I think it is the polarization of movie reviews.
The extensive use of long-range lenses makes the movie present an atmosphere of emptiness and loneliness. In order to reinforce this point, except for a few curious crabs, the other animals in the movie are lonely individuals, or they are grouped in a larger environment, which highlights their isolation. Although it is a realistic style of painting, except for the protagonist, almost all of the paintings are separate color blocks, the yellow beach, the blue sea, the green bamboo forest, the boundary between each other, from that strictly dense and dense The clear distinction between the bamboo forest and the beach together can be seen. The rendering of this kind of atmosphere is not so much for the service of the story, as it is the expression of a stronger director's personal style.
Then when it comes to the symbolic meaning of the movie, even if it is to abandon the rationality of the plot, it must be emphasized. There are many obvious behaviors in the movie, such as the protagonist falling into the water and squeezing out from a narrow underwater passage, such as the dream of the protagonist’s child; there are also many less obvious behaviors, but this may involve over interpretation , And ideas vary from person to person, so I won’t make spoilers. In short, if you only look at the appearance, then this is nothing but a messy movie with empty pictures, and if you look closely at the connotation, then this movie will have a lot to explore. Probably, just like what we saw in "The Fantastic Drifting of Youth Pie", it is as unthinkable as the explanation given at the end of the movie.
As a fan of Ghibli, the reason for watching this movie is naturally due to its cooperation with Studio Ghibli. However, probably, Studio Ghibli mainly paints in it, so it is not too strong. Presence. The overall painting style is due to Takada's art director, so although it looks a bit strange, not the style of Ghibli in the past, but the fine and realistic feeling has not been lost. If it is Miyazaki Hayao, then it will not. There are only one or two insects, a few crabs, and it will be full of little creatures with probes. In terms of the story, it is obvious that the director’s thoughts have taken the most part, so different from the previous way of expression can also make people feel a little novel, but after all, the script and the storyboard have been reviewed, so the kind of relationship between man and nature The depiction, the act of using some seemingly unrelated creatures as a cutscene, etc., are more or less revealing the identity of Ghibli, which makes me smile from time to time.
In short, "Red Sea Turtle" is not a movie that makes people feel satisfied. Although it has a relatively complete ending, it may make you more confused after watching it for the first time. The content you want to express is also the content left over or produced by the movie. As a new way-finding movie after Hayao Miyazaki announced his retirement (Although Mr. Hayao Miyazaki wanted to come out again after watching it, the old man who was almost 80 had really run out of time...), The meaning of "Red Sea Turtle" is not simply good-looking or not, it may be more about clarifying the direction of Ghibli's next path or providing options. From the current point of view, we cannot say that it is successful and deserted. The popularity of is probably the best explanation.
Hayao Miyazaki, Takada, Toshio Suzuki, the pillars of Ghibli are aging one after another, and Ghibli's operating model is difficult to produce new successors. I don’t know what Ghibli will be like in a few years, in another ten years, or even if it still exists. All we can do is to watch this twilight behemoth grow old and fall apart, and We will probably be like the last in "Red Sea Turtle", accompany him to grow old, wait for him to leave, and then change back to turtles and swim into the sea~
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