I fell asleep with a headache halfway through. . . Exquisite pictures can't make me stick to it all at once.
I tried to figure out why, but I couldn't, I just felt that the only few paragraphs in the film might have extraordinary meaning. Therefore, it is intuitive that the girl is the bird that was released, but she forgot her identity and guarded the hollow egg (thinking it was a very important thing). The existence of the warrior is to help the girl return to her place. It is also possible that everything is just a dream of the bird in the egg, as in the opening picture, the bird is in the egg and its eyes are rolling.
But after reading it carefully from beginning to end, I found that this is a literary, artistic, religious and philosophical film covered in animation. Various images remind me of my cousin's "Mother", such as reincarnation, women, men, desire, etc. .
Since I really couldn't understand it, it stimulated my desire to explore, so I read it again, and I understood the past one by one, but I didn't expect that I was addicted to it. Although there is no language, but through the pictures, the author has actually told all the stories to be told.
1. Red skies, checkerboard floors and bizarre mechanics
2. The setting of eyes, believers, machinery, steam,
3. The basic setting of the little girl
Wake up to the sound of a steam engine in an ark-like place, with (only) an egg on the bed, protect the egg in her belly (like a pregnant mother, showing her desire to protect the egg), put on the sheets, and get out of the arch Jump (==) happily enter the world (with a smile)
3. Is the girl looking for water? (Water is a very important image, water appears all the time in this section, and the background is accompanied by the sound of running water)
Crossed the grassland, entered the forest, ran and jumped in the forest, and found a water source. Using a round bottle to turn a full pot of water, seeing the wonderful time scene through the water, showing a happy expression, drinking half the pot in one breath, revealing? Not satisfied? expression?
4. Unexplained imagery appears
Feather, aquatic plants, changing reflections, girl submerged in water, holding eggs in water, aquatic plants (so this should just be the girl's imagination).
Suddenly a sharp voice came from a distance, and a gust of wind blew the girl's hair, and the girl (still on the shore) suddenly woke up in surprise.
It can be understood that the girl saw those images and wanted to sink into the water to be with the water plants (suicide?) But what reminded her?
5. City windows at a glance, wandering and lost girls?
6. Girls' Interaction with the World and Warriors
7. The Girl and the Warrior
Meet again after chance encounter (The soldier is looking for the girl)
Approaching cautiously, the first conversation about eggs and the most concerned question (who are you?) when meeting a stranger for the first time
who are you? What's in the egg?
The warrior made his point from the very beginning: Precious things should be well protected and cut open to know what's inside.
The girl cherished this unknown and guesswork, but the warrior seemed to know something and thought it would be better to cut it open.
The girl asks the soldier who you are. The warrior does not answer, and the warrior is unknown.
The soldier follows the girl, the girl walks and he goes, the girl stops and he stops. The girl said not to follow me, but the soldier still went his own way in silence. The girl looked back as she walked, and found that the soldier was not following, so she went back and took two steps, found that the soldier was coming, and quickly fled away (how is it so cute) The girl always glanced at the soldier from the corner of her eyes as she walked , Soldiers always have a cold face and walk behind with guns. (Is it the story of protecting the loli who just entered the WTO? Is this a story about a companion/couple/intimate relationship, walking alone in the world is too lonely, so I still have to find a partner to go with) Silently happy girl, silent Soldiers who follow. A small interaction in the rain (come under my cloak, no hum, little arrogant and sense of distance), the first close encounter between a little loli and a warrior who was frightened by the person chasing the shadow fish (obvious symbolism). Distance intimacy (relationship upgrade)
This part is beautiful
8. Churches, fish shadows and people
While sheltering from the rain, they came to the church, and the girl saw the light through the stained glass and felt as if she was bathed in divine light. Opening her eyes, the light receded, and the girl climbed the steps to take a closer look at the stained glass (the child's curiosity, the floor of the checkerboard appeared) and what the warrior said through the glass. But what she didn't see was the shadow of the fish and the people chasing outside the window. (Religious beliefs protect innocence and give people peace?)
In order to capture the shadow of a fish in nothingness, people have caused damage to real things (street lights, windows) (sarcasm, anti-war, destroying the real world for nothingness, barrage comments are in place)
9. Return
Leaving the world (city), the warrior turned back (a ritual?), then turned back decisively and walked in front of the girl for the first time (a determination, a disdain?) across the steppe, back to the ark? , The girl said to the soldier please don't hurt my egg, the expression of the soldier is serious? Confused? unknown? , in short silence
10. The Ark (more details and info), Philosophy, Religion
There is water, countless bone remains, the tree of life and eggs and birds and dreams (opening), and countless glass bottles are collected, and half of the water shows the pattern of the bones behind (the girl has been collecting), as if the ark was once at the bottom of the sea, or It is the skeleton of a big fish.
Girls and the Warrior's classic three questions, who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going. Soldiers tell stories from the Bible, God cleanses the world, Noah's Ark, and the Pathfinder Bird, and expresses his own bewildering and incomprehensible thoughts about religious philosophy (author apparitions). The bird was released by Noah to report peace. In the original work, the bird brought back the olive leaf, which symbolizes peace and the process, but in this story, the bird did not come back. People have been waiting for its return, but they have not waited, and they are already desperate. He gave up waiting, and even forgot his former hometown, his lessons, his hopes and expectations, thinking that it was Nanke's dream. (God is dead theory?)
But the girl said the bird is still there (hope is still there), I found the fossil, this egg is the hope for the future Oh, the warrior said, I knew it was like this (so that's why the warrior followed the girl. He also guessed that the egg might be It will become a bird and become hope). The girl said you wait, hoping to be born soon, but the soldiers kept rebutting and disbelieving.
The rain got heavier and heavier, drowning the stone figures on the land, the girl fell asleep, the soldiers guarded, the picture was frozen for a long time, and the flame finally went out (the girl said this before, Noah's Ark is warm even without heavy rain), The warrior eventually smashed the egg, but it was empty.
The water flooded the world, and the world became the world seen from the water.
11. The end, reincarnation
The ending coincides with the beginning, like the beginning of a cycle. (It can be understood that the opening is another world line)
The girl woke up to find that the egg was broken and empty (the dream was broken), went to find a warrior, fell into the water, grew into an adult, spit out her last breath and turned into countless eggs (new hope, but no roots).
We found that there was a tree of life above the castle where the girl lived, grabbing an egg desperately for nutrients. When the girl fell into the water and gave birth to countless eggs, the next screen showed many trees of life and eggs with birds. It can be understood that the eggs bred by the girl correspond to the eggs of hope one by one, and there is still infinite hope. of.
The soldier stood by the sea, watching the steam engine take off. This time, among the countless believers, there were girls with eggs in their arms (equivalent to other people in prayer clothes).
In the end, we find that the world has been submerged in water, and only a small piece of land is left. It is not land, but the bottom of an overturned ark. The nails have turned into stone pillars. The forest is the mark of the mottled years. It is possible People's fear and worship of fish may be the memory of the past struggle. In this case, human beings are infinitely longing for the birth of birds, which can bring the sound of return and peace.
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