When it comes to children's favorites, cartoons are naturally inevitable. In Japan, where cartoons are sublimated into works of art, animation directors will get the same popularity and honor as film directors.
Studio Ghibli has always been committed to creating pure animation. Its works are all hand-painted and rarely use three-dimensional technology. They often express the oriental world with a strong dreamlike beauty through the perspective of young boys and girls who are not deep in the world. Needless to say, Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away", even adults who are not interested in animation have heard of the big name, and fans who admire Hayao Miyazaki will naturally list "My Neighbor Totoro" and "On the Cliff". The Goldfish Princess", "The Witch's Delivery Service", etc., and even some researchers have written a special research paper "Shaping the Image of Girls in Hayao Miyazaki's Movies", but even so, it cannot be said that Hayao Miyazaki is a person who is well versed in the world of children. A person who is regular and willing to show the pure beauty of children, "Spirited Away" is full of many metaphors and metaphors, and many things are constructed and established against the pure heart of Chihiro, and it is through such an environment to change or Sublime the world of children and make them more perfectly in line with the real world of adults. Although the overall animation style is a magnificent fantasy compiled by children, the allegorical scenes and plot structures in many places can only be understood by adults. This is the fantasy world of adults wearing the skin of children's worlds, but it does not affect the "Thousands of Thousands". Spirited Away has become a great animated film for all ages.
When it comes to Jin Min, he tore off the coat of fantasy and directly reveals the essence of "adult fantasy world" - subconsciousness and dreamland. In adult fairy tales, everything is a metaphor and symbol. The parade is the best image. Although it is unreasonable and bizarre, it makes people physically disgusted, but calm down and think about it and the world depicted by Hayao Miyazaki is essentially the same, and the logic of using a girl as the protagonist is also similar in purpose. .
Takahata Isao is also one of the founders of Studio Ghibli. In most of the animated films produced by Ghibli, he participates in the production as a director or assistant director, and there are also independent director films. Isao Takahata may not have a strong personal style like Hayao Miyazaki, so we often see Hayao Miyazaki's talent in animated films but not the simplicity of Isao Takahata. After a lapse of 14 years, the sincere work "Hui "Night Princess" also suffered a bleak at the box office. It is true that I have seen "Grave of the Fireflies" and "The Fairy Tale of the Years" when I was a child. There is no wonderful and magnificent adventure world, and there are no ups and downs in the plot twists and turns, so it is completely impossible to arouse a child's curiosity.
However, after many years, I tasted "The Fairy Tale of the Years" again, only to find that it was the most precious Children's Day gift from Isao Takahata to everyone.
Many people think that the plot is bland and unremarkable, just the confusion of an ordinary woman in her puberty period and the trivial matter of being ashamed of speaking as a child. Although the two lines are intertwined, the whole story is like a running account narrative, and there is no profound subject. It is simply a zero-point composition for the college entrance examination. Even if a minor child made the above comment to me, I deeply agree with it, let alone an adult who has gone deep into society and understands all walks of life in society. What they need is a vast and profound theater, gorgeous velvet curtains, arias murmured by all beings, and soul characters who lead the plot. These are the elements of a "full score composition".
If we do not distinguish between "children" and "adults" by age and knowledge of society, but by the presence or absence of "the heart of a child", then perhaps a zero-point composition will become a full-point composition. "Mencius · Li Lou Xia": "The adult is the one who does not lose the heart of the child." Hang Shijun, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, believed that "the child" originated from the height of the child. In the early days, "chi" and "chi" were used interchangeably. In the eyes of the early ancients, young children were no more than the height of the handle of the ruler, so they were called rulers, that is, the child. The heart of the child was the heart of the ruler. Mental healthy people are often described as childish (naive) because, like children, they tend to see the world with an innocent, uncritical eye. A pure heart is an open heart. There are no stereotypes. In the occasion of serious value judgment, we remind ourselves to always have the "heart of a child", but we abandon it in the trivial life, which leads to self-lost.
As in the play, Taeko Okajima took a leave from the Tokyo company to enjoy the long-awaited rural life in the countryside. This is a major value judgment she made. She believes that this can not only be freed from the complicated city life, but colleagues feel that the simple life Simple way of thinking is suitable for you. But this is just her rejection, her escape from the society that cannot cope with the fast pace of the city, the life in the field is a simple way of life she imagined, but it is not the life in the field that she thinks she will accept from the bottom of her heart , especially after encountering Junxiong's complicated changes in the countryside, she broke her fantasy, and was completely desperate after her grandmother proposed marriage.
This time, she chose to escape.
Fortunately, Junxiong is a person who really has the heart of a child and does not look at problems with prejudice. At the same time, he is also a person who returns to the countryside from the city to find peace on the surface, just like Taeko. But Junxiong really accepted the changes in the countryside and started his own "ecological agriculture", which made people realize that he really likes the countryside without prejudice; Di's attitude of trivial matters also told Taeko unreservedly.
Taeko finally set foot on the train back to Tokyo, and suddenly realized that although life can be avoided for a while, it must be faced; . When the 27-year-old was knocked open and closed by her 11-year-old self, she suddenly discovered that Junxiong was the candlelight in the long dark night that she had been looking for, the only "real thing" in her empty heart that she had been ignoring.
At the end of the movie, Taeko did not return to the village life, but returned to the "place of peace of mind", as the saying goes, "Where my heart is at ease is the way back home". This is an ordinary story, and it is also a very real story of ordinary people pursuing their "innocent heart".
In the end, it is also a story about a perfect composition of "heart".
(PS: The 27-year-old seiyuu of this article is Miki Imai. She has sang "Flame の た か ら も の", which is Hayao Miyazaki's first big movie "Lupin III: Cario" The theme song of "The City of Stroh", I guess many people don't know it. Fans who like Hayao Miyazaki's movies recommend everyone to watch it)
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