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Although Japanese animation is almost the world of commercial animation dominated by production companies, there are still a group of people who focus on the expression and interest of animation itself. As Japanese independent animators who are still active in the front line, Makoto Shinkai’s reputation is naturally well known. Beyond this, Yoshiura Yasuhiro is undoubtedly the one who has received the most attention. Unlike Shinkai Makoto, who follows the innocent and aesthetic line and concentrates on telling love stories, Yoshiura Yasuhiro pays more attention to the discussion of human nature and social ethics.
Yoshiura Yasuhiro, born in 1980, is a generation who grew up watching "Evangelion". Perhaps due to the influence of "EVA", his works have never been separated from the scope of science fiction subjects. Humans and machines, humans and survival are eternal themes. Afterwards, he was considered a dream come true, and participated in the production of "Evangelion New Theatrical Edition: Broken".
Yoshiura Yasuhiro had already entered the animation industry when he was in college. At that time, his works were published at home and abroad, but the starting point of his creative path is the Virgo "Rong巻を追って" published in the 5th grade of elementary school earlier. The outstanding ability of telling stories is also inseparable from the experience of being a script in the acting department since childhood.
In 2000, Yoshiura Yasunhiro established his own studio "Liuhua" and has since focused on independent production. If Liuhua's first work "Demana Says Girls" was still slightly rough and obscure, by the time of the second "Language of Water" it was both refined and interesting. When Yoshiura Yasuhiro’s first commercial animation "The Cocoon of the Blue", the light of hope hidden behind the cruel near-future theme still exists in his later works, "Time of Eve" and "Aru Muni", Also includes "Inverted Patma". One of the reasons why Yoshiura Yasunhiro makes people look forward to every time is probably because he wants to see how he can give mankind another chance when he is devastated.
Strictly speaking, "The Upside Down Patema" released in 2013 is Yoshiura Yasuhiro's first feature-length animation (the theater version of "Eve's Time" is somewhat of the meaning of the previous web animation series), It is also one of his few works that have nothing to do with robots.
Many Japanese theatrical animations are trapped in a vicious circle of exquisite plots and muddy plots. "Inverted Patma" is an exception, at least one interesting story out of a hundred. In Aiga, the country where the boy Eiji lives, humans in the past have arbitrarily challenged nature, causing these "guilty people" to fall into the sky with their homeland. The sky is therefore regarded as an unknown place, and one must never look up to the sky. Patma, a girl from the underground world, is the "upside-down man" arrested by the Aiga government with all its strength because of the opposite of the gravity of the earthly world. When Patma and Eiji met by chance, the secrets of the two worlds on the ground and underground with opposite gravitational forces were also revealed.
One is that Apple will hit Newton's Eiji's world, and the other is Newton's Patma's world where Newton will hit Apple. The opposite of the two parallel worlds is not only gravity.
In the "surface" country of Aiga, the laws are strict and orderly, and the constant surveillance seems to be "big brother is watching you". The ideology is input to individuals through educational institutions, and the individual will to pursue freedom will be viewed Some people were killed as a result of heretics... All of these make "Upside Down Patma" seem to be a dystopian story at first glance. Japanese science fiction works have always had a feeling for dystopia, which is also a common theme in commercial animation, which can be described as a popular element at the moment. If you regard "Patma Reversed" as a dystopian story, then there are a lot of shortcomings, such as stereotypes and symbolization, and the inevitable thinking of details. In the final analysis, it is because Japan has not experienced the real high-pressure environment of the three-dimensional dimension. It is about the dystopia that stays in the imagination, and always accidentally becomes the love story of the protagonists in the difficult situation. But if you regard it as Yoshiura Yasunhiro's thinking on how to balance the power of technology, the setting is still very delicate.
So in contrast, the description of Patma's "underground world" is more like Yoshiura Yasunhiro. After the development of human science and technology to a certain height, the earth will be destroyed if carelessly, and the upside-down people living in the "underground" are the bearers of this tragedy. But are they just suffering tragedy? The material manifestation of human civilization is in ruins at this time, but the spiritual part of human civilization, those things that can be called truth, goodness and beauty are the continuation of human life, such as the efforts of Patma and Eiji's fathers, such as turning people upside down. Responsibilities to Aihe People-In short, mankind will eventually end in reconciliation.
Although it is based on the plot, the pictures of this animation cannot be ignored and are very beautiful. It is not at all the gloomy and decadent style of painting after the destruction of the earth in the inherent impression. It has the desolate beauty of post-modern industrial ruins, as well as fresh and bright natural light and shadow. The scene pattern under the perspective of gravity will have a different look and feel. The art supervisor is Yuji Kaneko, who is often seen in the works of TRIGGER, and has collaborated with Yoshiura Yasuhiro many times.
As a released animation, "Upside-down Patma" still has some obvious differences from Yoshiura Yasuhiro's previous works. Yoshiura Yasunhiro only acted as supervision, original work, and scripting. He did not personally do CG, editing, photography, sound, etc. like previous works. After all, it is facing a more general audience, and the length of the short film and the theater version of the animation is not an order of magnitude at all. It can be seen that there are concessions and shortcomings. Yoshiura Yasuhiro is an animator who is easy to raise expectations. For ordinary audiences, this is a good story with interesting stories, novel settings, and beautiful pictures, but it still makes fans a little bit disappointed. Excellent short anime people will probably have some problems with the rhythm control when doing a long story in the first time. Especially compared with Yoshiura Yasuhiro’s previous works, the sense of surprise brought by "Inverted Patma" is much smaller in this respect. .
In addition to the released version, the film also has the prologue "The Day of the Reversed Patma Beginning" which was screened in the previous network as a trailer. It is a small short film with a total of 4 episodes and each episode of only 6 minutes. The content Intercepted from the first half of the theater version, the editing is very neat and interesting, and it brings a different experience from the feature film.
All in all, if you include this animation as a pastime for the weekend patch, you will not waste your 100 minutes at all. If this is included in the watch list together with Yoshiura Yasuhiro, there will be more surprises!
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