People who like cats have probably fantasized about what it would be like to become a cat?
Smell the morning dew in the morning, watch the sunset in the evening...
Strolling through the green tiles and vermilion eaves, lying under the hedges in the shade of flowers...
If there was such an opportunity, would you accept it?
Today I want to talk about this movie, it is about a girl who has become a cat——
The heroine Miyo is a junior high school student.
Although she looks like a snarling and carefree girl.
But the divorce of her parents actually made her immersed in negative emotions and disgusted with the world.
Only her crush , Hinode gave her a glimmer of hope in her dark life.
He fantasizes about being his wife one day.
If you want it, try your best!
Different from the shy and passive style of general anime heroines, Miyo launched a fierce attack on her sweetheart, stalking and chasing after her!
Sometimes even bold moves are made.
This kind of behavior was naturally ridiculed and teased by the classmates, but these Miyos didn't care.
The most heart-wrenching thing is actually the rejection of Sunrise again and again.
In the end, he didn't even bother to say anything, and just ignored Miyo as air.
In this battle, Miyo was undoubtedly at a disadvantage, but an unexpected experience turned things around.
At the festival, Miyo got a mask from a businessman who was transformed into a tanuki .
Wearing a mask, Miyo turns into a cat and sneaks up to Hinode.
This trick really works, like the sunrise of small animals has no resistance to cats.
Kissing and hugging, Miyo indulged in his arms and couldn't extricate himself.
On the one hand, Miyo as a person is disliked , but as a cat, she is completely favored .
Miyo somewhat lost herself in such a divided state.
In the beginning, she just planned to take the opportunity to learn more about Sunrise and to shorten the distance between the two in reality.
But with repeated encounters and the influence of family relationships, Miyo has the plan to become a cat for the rest of her life.
Cats have a much easier life than humans...
And this is precisely the trap of the mask dealer civet cat,
Once the contract is reached, not only will Miyo no longer be able to become a human, but half of her lifespan will be taken away.
Miyo, who slowly turned into a meow, began to not understand human language, and she was about to become a real cat...
Fantasy-themed girl who turns into a cat.
The setting and plot of this film are full of the visual sense of "Cat's Repayment" and "Spirited Away".
But the difference is in the emotional processing of the film .
Speaking of this, I have to talk about the screenwriter of this film, Okada Miyori , known as the "Script Witch" .
As long as you know a little about Japanese anime, you should have heard of her name more or less.
"We still don't know the name of the flower we saw that day" (the name of the flower has not been heard), "Bow the promised flower in the morning of parting" (the oath at the evening of the flower), "The heart wants to cry out"...
This long list of splendid works resumes, apart from the super-long title, has the same characteristic,
Extremely delicate emotions and intricately tangled relationships between characters .
There is also a "sense of violence" between Okada's words .
This violence does not refer to physical movements.
It's the effect of the characters pulling their fingernails and poking their scars when they have an emotional conflict .
Such words are uttered through the characters' words, which can usually produce the power to turn the stomach upside down and fry the heart with oil .
For example, in the film, the two main scenes that prompted Miyo to give up his face and choose cat life——
Miyo, who turned into a cat, heard Hinode's talk,
Although he wanted to inherit the pottery workshop passed down by his grandfather, his family had to close the shop due to poor performance.
He also had something he really wanted to say but couldn't say.
To a certain extent, the situation of the two people is so similar, and Miyo can understand this feeling.
So he made up his mind to "spread his thoughts well" and encouraged him to cheer up.
Miyo writes a letter with her heart and prepares to hand it over to Hinode in the classroom.
But I didn't expect it to be snatched by my classmates , and read it out in front of the whole class ...
Although Miyo is not afraid of embarrassment, she just does n't want to be ridiculed by others .
But Sunrise's reaction was particularly strong.
Abuse or not? Tortured to death!
Although Miyo appears to be heartless all day, this is actually her self-protection mechanism .
Her parents divorced, and Miyo in elementary school was bullied by her classmates because of this.
But she never said anything to show weakness, instead she would act like she didn't care. In fact, she had been suffering all the time.
She always felt that she was abandoned by her mother, and the emptiness in her heart could not be filled.
And living with her father and stepmother, Miyo doesn't live in a mask all day long.
Through the detailed descriptions, we can feel Miyo's discomfort with her stepmother through the screen.
Every conversation is trying to escape or end as quickly as possible.
The smile on his face from the beginning to the end has no sincerity.
And textbook-like politeness actually reveals the vigilance of refusing people a thousand miles away.
All the issues are whitewashed and the love for Sunrise is some sort of emotional diversion.
Hinode also has feelings for Miyo, but he just doesn't know how to express it.
Even he didn't realize that Miyo already had an irreplaceable position in his heart, but that's a story later.
After the public execution...
Miyo finally couldn't take it anymore, she ran home crying, and her stepmother noticed the abnormality and stepped forward to ask,
I hope she doesn't hold back when she has something to do, but she didn't expect that Miyo, who had been saving for a long time, broke out completely .
And these two things became the straw that crushed Miyo, and made Miyo make up her mind even more disheartened.
Extreme, impulsive, typical teenage remarks, but who wasn't like this when they were young?
Gang Mom's ability to feed medicine is really consummate, and this twisted emotion really makes people sip old blood.
And the play can have such a real depiction and such a rich feeling,
This is inseparable from Okada's own life experience and trajectory.
When Okada was three years old, her parents divorced, and she was bullied by her classmates because she was an introvert at a young age.
This also resulted in her withdrawn, delicate, and fearful of the outside world, and she has been dropping out of school since the fifth grade of elementary school .
Su Hai Rentai, who dropped out of school at home in "Unknown Flower Name".
Jun Naruse who couldn't express himself in "The Heart Wants to Scream".
Her own mark is deeply engraved in each work.
She has no reservations, she is completely sincere, and she reveals her true heart to the audience layer by layer.
This method of incorporating self-experience into the creation is easier to mobilize emotions and resonate with the audience.
This is Okada's strength, but it is also her weakness.
Strong emotions can indeed make up for lack of motivation and behavioral logic.
This problem is well covered up in works that emphasize emotional entanglement, such as "Unknown Flower Name", "The Heart Wants to Scream", and "Flower Blossom Iroha".
But when it comes to "Mishome", "Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans", and "The Oath of Morning Flowers"...
When this kind of grand theme needs a strong plot logic motivation to promote,
It will expose Okada's lack of control over the overall structure.
And this is the reason why the foreshadowing of the second half of this work is not developed, the plot is too forceful, and the ending is cliché.
But to say that it is anticlimactic, it is not enough.
At least there is no problem with the production, the characters move smoothly, the scenery is pleasing to the eye, and the lens is gorgeous and beautiful.
There is Japanese-style pure love, and there is warmth and emotion.
But it happened to be so short of the last breath, which is quite regrettable.
But there are more speechless.
A movie whose main theme is to "deliver the words in the heart well" has suffered from the magical transformation of translation.
Replace "I like you" with "Thank you" throughout,
Pure love is as heavy as a mountain.
Although what I wanted to say was said, it could not be conveyed to the audience completely and accurately.
This is more than the stomach medicine that Gang Ma made.
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