"I have only one motive for making this film - I am over 55 years old, I was 55 when I first started making this film. I'm only now really starting to understand my own life. The so-called life, whether it is for elementary school students or these uncles, is very painful. This is normal. For those of you your age, this is just the beginning of a long marathon. And I was the one who finished the lap. As someone who's about to start the second lap, I want to tell you guys who are running: it's painful...and I'm actually in pain. But it's actually not a bad feeling - you get a nice view when you get to the finish line. This is how I feel after turning 55. 』
This profound animated film "The Sky Crawlers" is actually not an entertainment film in the traditional sense, and may even be regarded as an obscure and boring existence in the eyes of some people, but the purpose of Oshii's production of this film is It is not just to entertain the public, but to map the real world with the standards of literary and artistic films and convey spiritual messages.
Therefore, if there is no life experience over the age of 25, I am afraid it is difficult to understand the deep meaning of the film.
The war show staged in the peaceful world, the children who never grow up, the boundless fate, the firm and fragile emotions, the infinite reincarnation... These elements construct not only the images created by the Oshii Shoukan That fictional world is a true portrayal of the living conditions of people in our world today.
This is also the most essential difference between Japanese animation and Hollywood animation - the latter advocates "metaphysicalization" centered on exaggerated body movements, while the former emphasizes "metaphysicalization" that contains spiritual essence in quasi-still pictures . Although Hollywood animation can generate hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office, it is completely unable to match Japanese animation in terms of psychological description, emotional rendering, and expression of abstract concepts.
From a technical point of view, "The Sky Crawlers" takes the 2D animation's depiction of the details of the characters' expressions to the extreme. Many seemingly static and subtle movements have created expressions that are comparable to live-action movies—or even better.
Despite the box office failure and the empty-handed return of the competition section of the film festival, "The Sky Crawlers" is still a good film, an animated film that can give people a huge heart shock.
It seems that Mamoru Oshii has his own perseverance. Just like the line at the end of the film:
"Even on the same road, you can end up in different places. Just because it's the same road, there are different views - isn't that enough? ——Or, just because of this, is it not enough? 』
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