"In This Corner of the World" is an anime movie that needs to be calm and watched. As an animation, it was named the best film of the year by the magazine "Movie Shunbo", and it also won the "Japan Film Academy Award" and "Your Name." ” competed for the best animation award, and the public praised it highly. At the same time, it also launched a TV series based on the original novel, which was the most adapted IP in 2017. The animation style is fresh and exquisite, but the story is simple and simple. "In This Corner of the World" chose a small place and a small character, trying to restore history and reflect on war from a caring and rational perspective. The work reflects the attitude of a generation towards war by depicting the harm to innocent people caused by war and detailed description of life. The time node is set during World War II, which will inevitably lead to some controversy. However, from the perspective of an ordinary woman, the film quietly shows the survival plight of the Japanese people in the context of World War II, rather than cruelty and hatred throughout. It is rare and rare to use warm and restrained language to express ordinary people who are struggling to move forward in the war. In the face of such a heavy topic, keeping this calm is invaluable. The protagonist, Suzu, is an ordinary Hiroshima girl. Rich in imagination, the little rabbit in the pen jumps in the sea, and has the talent for drawing that can warm people's hearts. Her childhood was spent in a daze and fantasy. Because of her stupid nature, when she was kidnapped by human traffickers as a child, she thought, "Oops, I'm going back to feed the chickens in the evening." Because of the help of a little boy, Ling was able to escape. Perhaps it was a given fate, and the marriage partner of the matchmaker's words was actually the savior of the year, Zhou Zuo of Wu City. When she got married, she didn't seem to know much about the world, but the other side of her stupidity was her cuteness. Treat a lot of people with a gentle attitude. It was this simplicity that saved her and healed others. The love between Ling and Zhou Zuo in the film is touching. Obviously they only met once before they got married, and Ling didn't know anything about her future husband, but it was rare that Zhou Zuo loved Ling so much. "In this corner of the world, being able to find Ling is the most correct thing I've ever done." In the turbulent environment, they initially expressed their love for each other politely and restrainedly. Zhou Zuo, who is not very confident, even asked Ling to spend the night with his childhood sweetheart Tetsu Suwon. Ling expressed anger at Zhou Zuo's unprovoked suspicion, breaking the state of respect for each other for the first time. The two had a fight, but they were also more like husband and wife than ever. The dull and bitter days have been enriched by love. It was raining, Zhou Zuo wiped water for Ling, rubbed her face and kissed her gently. Calling home and asking Ling to send herself a document that doesn't matter, in fact, wants to treat her to a rare ice cream. Zhou Zuo sat on the ridge with Ling, who was in a bad mood, and showed her the warship on the sea in the distance, but they accidentally fell into the mud. When Zhou Zuo desperately threw Ling into the ditch to avoid the bombing, Ling Yan said insincerely that he was going back to Hiroshima, Zhou Zuo questioned, "I've been very happy this year and a half, whether I'm walking with you or chatting with you, I've always Very happy, aren't you? Is my family still so unfamiliar?" She was silent. But even so, in the next second, Zhou Zuo immediately threw her down and used his body to cover her, and she hugged Zhou Zuo silently. These two small actions pierce people's hearts. Maybe this is true love. Even if there are various discords, they are still unswerving. At the end of the war, on the bridge where they first met, are the two who are finally together, and they return home with new hope to live together. Shortly after Ling's marriage, Zhou Zuo's older sister, Jingzi, returned to her parents' home, and she was very different from the docile Xiao Ling when she was independent. Jingzi looked for work by himself, and her husband also looked for it by himself. After her husband died, she divorced her daughter, Qingmei. She can wear dresses and make up, and Suzu doesn't seem to know anything, Even after living in Wu City for a long time, I still can't remember the house number. Therefore, Jingzi's attitude towards Ling is bitter. Suzu's right hand and Kazuko's daughter, Harumi, were originally the source of solace and happiness for Suzu to live in this family. But on the day she learned that the Yamato had been sunk, as in all wars, the saddest ending is always borne by the commoners, Suzu also lost what she held dear. The dud plot is so cruel, the black and white collide and explode the holding hands, which makes people uncomfortable. The war destroyed Ling's right hand, the right hand she used to cut vegetables and cook, the right hand she used to sew clothes for her beloved, and the right hand she used to create every painting since childhood. The war took Harumi's life and deprived countless people of what they loved. This movie tells all this in a very plain tone, but it does not give people a heart-pounding blow. After losing her right hand, Ling felt that she was a burden and blamed herself for failing to protect her niece's young life, causing her to risk her life to put out the flames and drive away the birds in the distance regardless of the bombing. Ling's innocence in the first half is in sharp contrast with the ill-fated second half, and unknowingly ties the audience's heart to Ling's situation. Make every effort to take care of this home and do all your duties well. It's not just Suzu, the female characters in the whole work are so tolerant and powerful. They always support the family silently behind their backs and donate without complaint. The film depicts Suzu's mental activities and behaviors very delicately. She has the perseverance of Japanese women of that era, and there are moments of hysteria, so that she is no longer a silhouette that is the same in an era, but a flesh-and-blood "person". When everyone was forced to laugh, only Ling thought silently, what is there to say? This is the real thought of an ordinary person. In 1945, Japan was defeated. The Emperor Broadcasting announced the surrender, the elder sister put away the radio silently, went to the corner where no one was there and cried bitterly. At this moment, Ling also completely broke out the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time. "Our past has just vanished. Everything I always thought was reasonable, and the reason I had been patient with it, flew away. Are we going to give in to violence?" Suzu's unwillingness was not so much because the Japanese army lost. Rather, it is an outbreak of war itself. For an ordinary person like Ling, there is really nothing to gain from the war. On the contrary, her brothers and sisters, nieces, and parents died because of the war; because of the war, she almost lost her only place to live; because of the war , she had to be separated from her partner; because of the war, she was frightened every day, worried about firewood, rice, oil and salt, and tried her best to survive. In the end, all this was just a surrender from the emperor, asking the people to persevere and use it to paralyze His own beliefs and pillars collapsed at this moment. Ling's hoarse voice is precisely because of the need to vent, to vent the grief and anger of being deceived by the so-called country and sacrificed in vain for the so-called just war. She felt that what her relatives had paid in all of this, in that instant, lost its meaning and was unacceptable. Ling's crying monologue is precisely the starkest satire of war in the entire film. Even if there is no food, they will look for wild vegetables to feed their hunger; even if they lose their shelter, they will survive in the bomb shelter; even if they lose their relatives, friends and loved ones, they will recover. But now that you want to surrender, what is the cost of the past? What is a dead relative? What is the reason for desperately enduring and desperately protecting? What is all this for? Why should we innocent people have to bear these sufferings? And what did all this get in return? Likewise, why does my sister cry for her daughter at this moment? Because she felt that her daughter died in vain. If the war could end so easily, why not surrender sooner? Then the daughter will not die. This is also the most real part of the film. The cognition and behavior of all characters are in line with their identities and status, and they are not detached from their era background. We should not constrain what people said at the time with modern perspectives. At first, Jingzi often laughed at Ling. After losing her daughter, the guilty Ling didn't dare to smile in front of her, but Jingzi comforted her and said, "The person I love died a long time ago, the watch shop was demolished, and the child was nowhere to be seen. Even so, I was myself. The path you choose. Seeing you obediently marrying into this unknown home and doing things in an obedient manner, I thought it was a meaningless life, but Ling's home can be here, anywhere, don't look ahead, go by yourself It's good to decide. People will always have a place in the world." Watching the movie cried three times. Tears over loss, accusation, strength. Anti-war, want peace, this is the wish of the whole world, no one wants to destroy the world. This family living in Wu City is a microcosm of the war period, a representative of a family suffering from war. The bits and pieces of this family let us see the devastation of the war on every ordinary family. The innocent and kind heroine Ling, the husband Zhou Zuo who always protects Ling, the self-improving and capable sister Jingzi, the simple villagers who support each other, the grateful Ling who has been reduced to a brothel... They have experienced countless pains, but they can always smile again. In life, don't forget to be kind to others while keeping your own place, and never give up on loving and being loved. In such a beautiful corner of the world, with such a beautiful group of people, so many tragic things have happened. What is the culprit? Of course it's war. A lot of helpless humor in the movie highlights the evil of war. for To fill the stomach, the bell soaked the rice and steamed it. The family happily ate Nan Gong's meal in the dilapidated house, thanking God and ancestors. After Japan was defeated, Xiaoling was queuing up to distribute supplies. Jingzi asked her what line she was lining up, and she replied, "Who knows, anyway, everything is lacking." In the end, what they received was the leftovers of the US military, and there were even tiles in it. But they still taste delicious. After the lonely little girl left her dead mother with a broken arm, her mother clenched the empty sleeves of the bell tightly. The kind-hearted Ling and Zhou Zuo decided to adopt the disgraced child. After bringing her home, everyone scratched their ears and cheeks because of the fleas on the child. Jingzi blamed her mouth, but quietly smoothed the wrinkles of Harumi's clothes with her hands. In the non-fiction novel "Youth H", it says: You see that your family is ruined because of the war, but the country still asks everyone to continue to sacrifice; you find that the supply of firewood, rice, oil and salt is getting tighter every day, but newspapers and radio stations are still good news; do you still need What to prove that you live under a myth called the state? Doesn't this show that it's a lie? Japan's militarism launched an unjust war, which was brutal and cruel to the outside world, and adopted a policy of ignorance at home. The people went to the battlefield with ignorance, and the nature of the war was covered up. War is just a tool used by rulers to divert domestic conflicts. In war, civilians have no choice but cannot choose a position. Those in power decide to launch a war. Men must join the army and women are forced to work in the rear to provide resources. Why start a war? Why go to war? The civilians could not decide or resist, they could only follow. In the war, what is wrong with the civilians, the Chinese civilians are not wrong, and the Japanese civilians are not wrong. Win or lose in a war, there are always people who get hurt in the end, and those people are usually ordinary people who have done nothing wrong. For Japan, it is like the people of Hiroshima who died in the nuclear bomb; for China, it is like those compatriots who died under the Japanese bayonet. Japan first resorted to violent plunder and aggression against other countries, only to incur the necessity of succumbing to violence. Air defense alarms were raised every once in a while in the place where he lived, and supplies and food were extremely scarce. He was suspected of being a spy by the gendarmerie when he painted casually on the field, and witnessed the displacement of people around him. Imagine that people living in such an environment would not desire peace from their hearts? No disgust and fear of war? The film does not state its anti-war stance, but it complains about the pain and suffering brought about by war all the time. The main line of the whole film is: no matter what happens, life always has to go on. Just like after the defeat, the mother-in-law took out the rice she had collected and asked the hostess to cook a good meal, but don't use it all at once, because there is still tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Does it hurt? But the days will go on. Like Suzu's left-handed painting, the country has been warped by war. But no matter how twisted it is, it must be reborn. You will encounter everything in life, happiness and suffering, but you still have to live after you experience it. Only by living can we wait until the end of the war, and only by living can we have the chance to be happy. Cherish a peaceful life and cherish the people around you who love you. There are also many well-handled places in the film, such as the missiles blowing up into watercolors in the sky, and the refugees looking at their razed homes without shedding a single tear. Ling's seiyuu Noh Nian Rena once played the role of Amano Aki in the morning drama "Ama". Her strong voice complimented Suzu's image. The theme song of the movie was composed by master Hisaishi Joo, the tone is soothing, and the female voice is soft and cheerful. No matter how hard and turbulent life is, you still have a good day with a smile. I hope that each of us can understand the sorrow of ordinary women in this war era, and hope that there will be no such sorrow in this world.
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