When I was in a daze these days, I would think of Spirited Away.
When I was a kid, Hayao Miyazaki was "Porco Rosso", "Princess Mononoke" and half of "Nausicaa". I don't quite understand the goodness of Spirited Away. This time I revisited that in the short review of the ample division, "My Neighbor Totoro" has dumped 15 streets of "Spirited Away", and "Princess Mononoke" has dumped 150 streets of "Spirited Away". I understand this evaluation too! It's all about my impression before rewatching.
But after watching it twice, in addition to probably saying that I like every frame of this animation, as a whole, I also like its carefully woven and incomparable lines.
It's super random. In terms of the theme, if not every scene is carefully created by dreams, every moment is unexpected and makes people look forward to the next second of imagination. The smooth and natural expressions and movements of the characters move reality into fantasy and accurately reproduce it. This animation feels There is nothing left.
What's the story? Let's grow up the story. He strayed into the magical world and left the magical world again, saving his parents who became fat pigs and completing their growth. From a trembling little girl to a girl who bravely protects the wisdom of her companions. But in fact, if you ask further down, there is really no "story". Although there is an impeccable script, the connection is smooth, the clues and details are meticulous, the scene changes through the scene, and the person is skillfully brought to the next moment and the next narrative paragraph. . But in fact, everything is "triggering." The inner motivation and logic of the characters are not clear. Whether it is love or memory, how did Chihiro become brave and why did she become brave, even "a lot of industrial waste has been pulled out of the body." Hayao Miyazaki's usual environmental irony like "The God of the River" or Xiaobai is a filled river, has passed by without being stranded.
What does "Spirited Away" want to say? This question seems to be an unsolvable answer. In Benjamin’s words, the story should be practical. "This practicality can sometimes be a moral lesson, another is practical consultation, and the other is presented in proverbs or sayings. But in either case, the storyteller is a Someone who advises readers. "Spirited Away is too impractical. Although it teaches people to be brave, the center of the film is something very shapeless. The good and bad of adults are blurred with good and evil, and there is no inevitable logic for each of them. In fact, he became the parents of pigs without committing any heinous crimes. Grandpa Boiler unceremoniously refused Chihiro’s job request, but then helped her fold the quilt. He was lonely, pleased and swallowed and chased Chihiro’s faceless monster in rage. , Tang Po Po, who was obviously very bad, didn't get any punishment in the end. Even the line of love is very unconfident. Xiaobai said at the end that he will meet Chihiro again, but who completely believes this.
But the strange thing is that, logically speaking, things that are not named will escape from the eyes and not be seen. So many unnamed things in Spirited Away are not scattered, but because of the superb animations. Be retained to show to the audience. What a child should be like, the delicate and complicated parent-child relationship, food, "work! Work! Work!", the complex indifference that exists in both the white dragon form and the dragon form...the power of skills is so great! In addition, how to say it, this is probably especially obvious, Gong Lao is really not good at "people and people", Ghibli's good-looking boy-girl relationship is almost not from his hand, his domain is more like everything and gods The relationship between things, not the relationship between everything. Hahahaha, how does it sound like Spinoza, "Seeing Hayao Miyazaki from Spinoza", a thesis topic.
In fact, I wrote this mainly because I thought that in the future, if someone asks you what your favorite animation is, I might have to answer "Spirited Away"... I feel that I can't pretend to be B anymore.
But, like the metaphor of Orpheus who doesn't know what it means to put it at the end, "Don't look back."
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