Sure enough, "Spiritual Journey" is still worthy of Pixar's production. It must be a boutique line. It has contributed to us the most healing movie in 2020, especially when the epidemic is raging around the world. Everyone is concerned about the issue of living. More time to think and explain.
"Inside Out" is similar to the previous "Inside Out".
Both works are expressing how to know and be yourself. "Inside Out" knows from the inside, and "Spiritual Journey" examines the soul from the outside.
Compared with "Inside Out", "Inside Out" has a broader and broader theme, not only from the perspective of growing up in understanding the world, but also the need to fully rediscover oneself and the world, oneself and others, oneself and oneself The relationship between.
What "Spiritual Journey" wants to express is an abstract artistic conception with profound and philosophical thinking. Often such a vague concept is difficult to combine with a type of commercial film in a film and television work.
But "Spiritual Journey" relies on a very interesting story, so that the seemingly imaginary soul theme can shine on the real story.
The story of the film is very simple. It tells about a music teacher named Joey. He believes that he was born for music. With the hope that he will one day realize his great musical ambition, he finally got a dream of playing in a bar. opportunity, just when he was about to make a big splash, he... died.
However, it is not completely dead. In our words, it is a little bit restless, and the soul is unwilling to be saved, so I went to the "land of reincarnation" before ascending to heaven, and somehow became a mentor there.
"Inside Out" and "Inside Out" are very similar in the setting of human character formation, which can be explained as innate genetic decisions. In the "place of reincarnation", Joey experienced an imaginative experience. On an adventurous journey, he tried every means to bring his soul back to the body, so that his musical dream could come true.
At the same time, Joey also met 22, a soul who has been unwilling to reincarnate for a long time and could not be reincarnated.
In the "land of reincarnation", seven "Dragon Balls" must be collected before going to Earth to become a human being, and the last one is about the spark of inspiration, which is considered to be a so-called skill or talent.
And 22 has no interest in anything, which also makes it a strange existence here.
In this way, Joey accidentally became 22's mentor, and the two started a wonderful and magical experience.
The whole film is full of Picasso's cubism's imaginative style, the perfect blend of art and music, and the details of the imagination make people feast for the eyes and ears in sight and hearing.
What is even more surprising about the film is that it does not cling to the definition of dreams and success, but instead explores the meaning of life behind these goals.
Do people live for their dreams, for their goals in life, to win more applause from others, or to touch their own soul more, have an out-of-body dialogue with themselves, to experience the meaning of their existence in the world, or No point, just to live more real.
Of course, such universal values have always been the quintessence of Pixar animation, but this time, the adventure unfolded in "Spiritual Journey" is more pure. Bring out the theme in the scene.
Speaking of a more personal point of view, when I watched "The Spiritual Journey", it reminded me of Italian-American director Frank Capra. Maybe everyone is not very familiar with him. He is one of the very famous directors in the golden age of Hollywood. , won three Oscars for Best Director. His representative works include "One Night Happening", "Floating Life Like a Dream", "Rich and Noble Clouds", "How Beautiful Life" and so on.
Why do you think of him? Because most of Frank Capra's works are very similar to "The Spiritual Journey". Frank Capra's works play an important role as a weather vane on the universal values of later American film and television works.
In most of his works, he can gain insight into the characteristics of human nature and the state of the world through a funny and kind, inspirational but not preachy story, thereby showing humane care and gratitude.
Finally, I want to talk more deeply about 22, a soul who can't find the purpose of life. Compared with the protagonist Joey, I actually like 22 more. He is the one who really leads the audience to know those beautiful moments in life that are eternal.
22 actually means that, perhaps most of us, have no clear goals in life, no big dreams and revenge, no too much desire for success, and just want to live comfortably every day or even live by it.
But the rhythm of today's rapid development of the times makes people like 22 become anxious and overwhelmed, so they feel guilty as losers and ants, and the film finally defines the meaning of sparks, which is also equivalent to telling everyone the value of life. , perhaps not related to dreams, success, talent, etc., thus sublimating the meaning of the film to cherish the true meaning of life.
Of course, is the reality really that beautiful? Obviously not so. "Spiritual Journey" strives to achieve a symbol of a fairy tale fable in all aspects, and even the direction of the ending is fairy tale-like. For me of "regret aesthetics", the ending of the film is obviously too happy ending.
If Joey still had to die at the end of the film, after all, he really had an accident, instead of Jerry, who played God in the film, opening the back door to let him be reborn, maybe the film could handle it more tingling in reality, and it would also make the film more painful. The audience can better understand that cherish the time living in the moment, and there is only one life in human life.
But if the film is not a cartoon, but a live-action film, then my evaluation of "Spiritual Journey" is definitely not so high, because after all, the film's focus on the beauty of the details of life, while ignoring the real problems of life itself In fact, it is difficult for the audience to appreciate the film after watching the movie.
It's like listening to Pu Shu's "Ordinary Road" a few years ago. When you listen to it, you are very moved and comprehended, but when you think about it, people who have crossed mountains, rivers and seas, and people who have crossed the seas of people, and we really Ordinary people may not have reached such a refined realm. For example, if I appreciate and understand the video of the quiet time of life every day, I will not be able to pay the rent. This is a very real problem.
Well, it's a bit too much to talk about, the animation is still not annoying when it makes sense.
In a word, if you want me to recommend watching only one cartoon in 2020, it must be "Spiritual Journey". Of course, "Ghost Slayer Infinite Train" doesn't need my recommendation, right?
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