The sequel this time is worthy of the 13-year wait. The creativity cannot surpass the first episode, but the emotion and the presentation of reality actually win too much.
This is an animation work with a strong Pixar imprint. The temperament in it cannot be imitated by other animation production companies. Only Pixar can produce such an animation with an unrestrained and cheerful imagination and a sentimentality deeply rooted in the real world. Emotional works. Yes, I think Finding Dory is essentially a tragedy. Looking at several major animation works released recently, they are basically family fun, but have a different core: except for the funny elements, "Kung Fu Panda 3" is a Kung Fu comedy (it can even be said that from 1 to 3 has slipped from comedy to comedy). To the point of farce), "Zootopia" is a crime, political drama, and "Under the Sea 2" is a tragedy. The protagonist Dolly is constantly battling her own amnesia, trying in vain to not forget her relatives and friends. Even if there is a seemingly bright ending, the process of fighting against fate is actually a tragedy.
The rhythm of the whole film is very fast, and the jokes and burdens are thrown out one after another, which makes people overwhelmed, but I couldn't laugh for the first half of the time, because these clumsy jokes seemed to cover up the tragic atmosphere of the film itself and were unsuccessful. Gives a sense of wanting to cover up. The main characters of the film have various flaws, and none of them are "cute" flaws such as confusion and carelessness, but serious physical and psychological flaws that affect life: Dolly the Blue Tang Kingfish has severe amnesia, The clownfish Nemo's fins are big on one side and the other is small, and it is easy to lose balance. The whale shark "Fate" will hit the wall with myopia, the beluga "Pele" can't use echolocation to find the direction, and the octopus has lost a leg and has social phobia. , Among the seals, there is a fool who is always bullied by the same kind. Even Haiyan "Becky" who doesn't even have a line is ugly and loses her IQ and disconnects from time to time. Audience involvement. Watching these characters have to overcome or cover up their flaws, keep making jokes and play tricks, it's like watching a paralyzed old man with a cerebral infarction learning to walk at a ridiculous pace. Can't seem to laugh at all.
Among these characters, Dolly's image is the most vivid, her friendly attitude towards people is incredible and even morbid, and those with severe amnesia will forget what she said three seconds ago. He brought the people around him into danger, which made Marin, who was the caregiver, very depressed, and kept complaining. For these situations, Dolly is also very troubled, with boundless friendliness and constant regret, trying to remember her family, not forgetting important things, and falling into the fear of being abandoned by those around her or losing her family again, unable to extricate herself. What Dolly struggles with is a natural amnesia, as futile and tragic as her destiny. And all the funny and cute are just a bridge to balance the tragic atmosphere of the whole film, so as not to scare the children away; and the most brilliant part is that although it is funny, it does not fall to the point of vulgarity and ridicule. These flawed The characters still show a cute and even noble side.
The most terrifying and thought-provoking scene in the whole film is not that everyone is chased by a giant squid with fluorescent and fangs, but that Dolly is told by other people of her kind that her parents have passed away, and she accidentally meets Marin. , Nemo was separated and washed down into the sea a few minutes after the waste water. With the double whammy of learning that her long-lost parents had died and being forcibly separated from Marinimo, Dolly's amnesia worsened, forgetting where she was, what she was going to do, and even Marin and Nimro. Mo, there is only anxiety and self-blame of "losing something very important", wandering in vain in the dim sea water, surrounded by huge seaweeds like monsters, and occasionally passing fish are impatient. When I stopped to listen to her, the whole picture revealed an indescribable feeling of loneliness, sadness, guilt, and anxiety. If the shells Dolly found were not deliberately left by her parents, and if the shells were only occasionally brought over by the undercurrent, following the shells that randomly appeared on the bottom of the sea, Dolly would most likely have swum out of the bay to unfamiliar waters and lost herself again. , is a double loss of physical and spiritual: that is, losing parents, family and friends, unable to find a way home, and more likely unable to retrieve his own memories, becoming Dolly, whom Nemo does not recognize at all, that is, he just met Marin At the time, like a newly born newcomer (fish), start a new life. In the future, or she will meet new friends, and at some point, her previous memories may reappear, but next time she does not know if she will have the courage to start the journey home again. If you don't force the plot to a big reunion, and follow the most likely plot in reality, the film will quickly slide to a darker ending. The truth is, after this saddest episode, seeing Dolly find her parents, I was able to let go and laugh.
Dolly is tortured by amnesia exactly like people in reality. People who are tortured by cerebral infarction, mental illness, Alzheimer's disease, intracranial infection, depression and other neuropsychological diseases will also be forgetful. "Psychosexual stimulation" memory loss will rapidly aggravate, you will forget your food intake and keep eating until you vomit, you will forget your way home, squat on the side of the road and cry, you will forget the faces of your family members, and drive your children away as strangers When you go out, you will also be very dependent on the people around you. You will lose your temper for fear of being abandoned, become clingy, or keep trying to please people around you. I have also seen Dolly working hard. In order to exercise memory, some people copy small notes, and some people look like elementary school students. Like hanging cards with addresses, phone numbers and contact names around their necks, and some people keep nagging about things they don’t want to forget until everyone around them thinks he’s insane. When we look at Dolly on the screen and laugh silly, have we ever thought that this fish is actually by our side, our grandparents, grandparents, parents who are getting old, and us who will grow old in the future Own.
If those forgetful family and friends are like Dolly, I hope they too live in Dolly's sea. This ocean, which is very friendly to Dolly the forgetful fish, is actually the most fairytale-like plot in the entire show, not some octopus driving a truck. In the movie, all the sea creatures, no matter whether they are defective or not, are very friendly to Dolly and help her. Even if there are some complaints at times, they follow her crazy actions in the end, even the seemingly indifferent and selfish. The closed, socially phobic octopus Hank also played 007 for Dolly. In this sea, the biggest malice Dolly encountered was indifference and neglect, but at least no one (fish) deliberately hurt her, used her amnesia to do bad things or eat her. Needless to say, how difficult it is for people with defects to survive in reality, because of physical and psychological problems that they cannot control, they are discriminated against, ridiculed, bullied, despised, and hurt. Compared with reality, the ocean in the movie is as beautiful as a dream: Pixar slaps reality hard with the dream.
So if you want to live in that beautiful ocean, please treat every fish with amnesia well, help her, be kind to her instead of laughing and bullying her.
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