Michael Dudok de Wit’s animation works are mostly silent films. They do not particularly render character conflicts and emotions. They use other elements in the screen to highlight the inner world of the characters, such as the passers-by that the heroine of "Father and Daughter" met in her life, in "The Red Turtle" The male protagonist is on a desert island. The single main line seems to be plain, but it can always strike people's hearts.
With the simplicity and gloom of a retreat from "Father and Daughter", "Red Sea Turtle" has a familiar surreal, and the familiar style of Japanese animation studio Ghibli rushes toward you. The animation studio Ghibli, co-founded by Hayao Miyazaki and Takahata, has taken almost all of Hayao Miyazaki's works. The "Red Turtle" co-produced with Michael this time retains the exquisite and smooth animation effects, but also unexpectedly none Dilute Michael's own style.
"Red Sea Turtle" tells the story of a red sea turtle transformed into a woman and returned to the sea with the male protagonist after his life. Although I really want to kill the man named "The Love of the Tortoise", this sentence really succinctly explains the main plot of "The Red Sea Turtle". Don’t ask me why the turtles didn’t become a man, because I’m not the director #笑#.
The film lightly reproduces the life of an ordinary person, growing up, life frustrated (shipwreck), falling in love, getting married, having children, children leaving home, and wife passing away. This is a longing for life, ideals, and hope to escape the island of safety The life of ordinary people who finally stayed behind.
The director does not intend to criticize the ordinary, nor does he mean to eulogize ambition, but neutrally portrays the life of our most ordinary people: there are storms, unwillingness, hard work, hurt people who care about themselves, and staying behind for the safety of the other half. The scope, the parting and evening loneliness facing the next generation who want to escape.
We all think that everyone’s paths are different, but most of them are in the same way. All ambitions will be flat, and all storms will be discussed in the future.
Every one of us has ambition and pursuit; but without ambition, it doesn't mean that we can live without seriousness. Love, you can see it as a fetter to ambition, or as a fulcrum of plainness. There is no right or wrong choice, it's just a matter of timing.
But even in the small safety island that was taken for granted, the romantic life of the unknown still happens from time to time, and at this time, although you are no longer only worried about your own safety, there are others. At the end of the day, you will find that, in fact, just living well is enough.
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