It tells the story of the failed cartoonist Xi who failed to protect his first love from being killed by the underworld and returned to the world, but saved his lover but strayed into the belly of a whale, and escaped with the efforts of his partners to live hard.
It is strangely reminiscent of "Big Buddha Plus". The same uses the fairy and Buddha elements to create the audience's detached objective perspective, and the same cynical ridicule of life. The difference is that "Big Buddha" is a cynical movie, and this cartoon is very inspiring.
The way of telling stories in "Mind Game" is very interesting, interspersed with real faces in the animation, and there are many crazy fantasy elements. It gives people a sense of connection with real life, and presents an absurd and crazy temperament. It seems that the whole world is a game of the creator, one flower and one tree, insects, ants and all beasts are equal, and there is not much difference between people.
At the beginning of the story, the male and female protagonists liked each other as their childhood sweethearts, but they only dared to express their love in the email. After adulthood, the male protagonist still dare not confess, only dare to fantasize. The hostess and sister sacrifice their lives for the bastard father. They are all people who do not have the courage to make a choice.
If that's the case, let's live it again, even the underworld in the show wants to go back in time. The director's expression is based on this. In order to take out the whale's belly, several people ran against the current, knocked down by the memories of the past, and then supported each other before continuing to run. This scene is too burning. This is not enough. At the end of the story, one sentence is constantly given: The story is not over yet. Indeed, the story is not over before life is over.
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