The narrative of "Want to Cry I Put on a Cat Mask" continues the consistent style of Okada Mori, with delicate and complex emotional presentation, coupled with a heart-wrenching plot design. However, due to the lack of novelty of the plot and the homogeneity of creation, the response of the film is not ideal. Below I will analyze the specific reasons from the perspective of the film's narrative drama.
In terms of genre, the film is a very classic romance film with fantasy elements in Japanese animation films. I think most people will think of Makoto Shinkai. His film is the most successful of its kind in recent years. The success of this type of work depends on two factors: whether the emotion is sincere, and whether the worldview is successfully shaped. The problem with "Cat Mask" is the latter. The film rating shows us a relatively grand "Cat City", which is very helpful for the construction of the world view, but "Cat Mask" puts it in the last 30 minutes of the film. , This is like what it would have been like if the entire group of "Spirited Away" entered Monster City in the last 30 minutes. The lack of information and the incomplete shaping of the world view are the main drawbacks of the film.
The remarkable place, the theme of the film, is that there is a distance between people, and the heroine resolves the distance from the hero by turning into a cat, but she also loses herself because of this.
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