The reason for watching this movie Someone told me that this movie is more interesting than How to Train Your Dragon 3, and he also recommended the origin of the white snake. For this reason, I wonder why this film with Chinese elements or a Sino-US joint venture cannot be nominated for an Oscar. I don't watch modern movies very often, and I don't know much about Oscar-nominated movies in the animation genre.
If I hadn't known in advance that the movie "Snowman" was a Sino-American co-production, I might have thought it was an American movie shot in China or a Chinese story set in an American Chinatown. The film mainly tells the story of a girl who loses her father. In order to realize her father's dream of traveling all over China's famous scenic spots, she starts a frantic part-time job and gradually becomes estranged from her mother and grandmother. The heroine met a snowman on the rooftop of her house and started a story of evading the pursuit of bad guys with her cousin. After this adventure is over, the girl is more aware of the importance of her family. It can be said that this wonderful journey is a journey to help a girl come out of the grief of losing her father, but it is a bit blunt to me to wake up the girl's attention to the mother and grandma through the mutual help among the peers. In this film, the relationship between the heroine and her cousin and cousin has a corresponding estrangement as she grows older. Communication can be said to be a way of helping people solve problems and promote relationships. During the trip, I didn't find any contradiction between the cousin and the heroine, only some disagreements. I don't think the difference of ideas will break out into a big conflict, and the run-in and repair of small conflicts will not allow them to have a very deep trust and love between them. That kind of love shouldn't make the heroine realize the importance of family after returning home. So there is a scene where the snowman returns to his family as a child. I originally thought the Yeti was also a grown-up monster, a monster with a mind just inferior to that of a human. Because a normal being at the age of a child should not deliberately lead the heroine to the Leshan Giant Buddha, it is so "human" that I feel that this return journey does not require human company at all. In addition, there is a character who does not look like a child in the film - a cousin. The cousin makes the heroine understand that the cousin actually cares about her, and he becomes the catalyst for the closeness between brother and sister. The character setting of such a character is a bit abrupt. The "child" I understand should not be a child who seems innocent and lively but actually understands interpersonal relationships. Halfway through the movie, I started looking at the progress bar, looking at the progress bar to guess what was going to happen next in the story. Borrowing the knowledge learned a few days ago: the seven key words of the concatenation novel: purpose - obstacle - effort - result - accident - turning - ending. A lot of movies are like this, and there are always hope and traps on the way for the protagonist to realize his ideal.
You don't know what's going to happen with a movie like this, but you just know it's going to end happily, probably because animated movies are all about giving people hope and making people want to move on. Movies like this often show some incredible creative scenes as the protagonist makes his way to his destination, such as a car that can transform into a boat chasing a cousin who can drive. I think the plot picture of rape blossoms turning into a wave is the most imaginative. Placing the terraced rapeseed fields in real life at the same height as the blue sky brings me a trace of fear or a sense of oppression. The blooming and falling of other beautiful pink flowers are very common, but they are not so visually shocking. The blueberry fruit that expands and grows endlessly is very cute, but it does not feel refreshing.
The behavior of the characters in the movie is too little to pave the way. In order to portray the bad old man as a person without empathy, there is a very bright yellow-orange tree in the film, and the old man proposes to cut it down. Later, the plot of the old man was written again when the old man made dramatic moves when he told his cousin about capturing the snowman (a kind of trying to trick the audience into thinking that the old man was a bad guy). Immediately afterwards, the old man suddenly praised the cute mouse. Well, here should be that the mentality has already changed in the process of telling the old man's memories.
If snowmen are mystical creatures that belong to nature, then the contrast between protecting them through children and adults trying to capture them may reflect that children are the purest and closest to nature. Children and adults fight fiercely to escort beautiful creatures back to nature. The film's intention is to call on children to love nature? May I question, does this film convey a bad idea to people, such as easily helping a seemingly innocent animal and human being? Children do not have a certain ability to judge, and it is easy to think that what they see and hear is true. If in the movie, can there be some plot arrangement to let us know in advance that this animal is worthy of being helped?
In the end, it comes back to whether this film is good or not, or whether it is worthy of being nominated for an Oscar. Personally, I think this movie is a simple western cartoon with Chinese colors. In the film, they only show high-rise buildings and ordinary residential areas, blurring the location where the protagonist lives, and you can't tell that it is a certain city in China. At most, there are more Chinese fonts on the street, and there are "cramming classes" with Chinese characteristics. I feel that this film does not describe the growth and life of Chinese children from the perspective of China, but just China in the eyes of Westerners. To portray Chinese life from the perspective of the other, when he comes into contact with the situation in China that he does not understand and needs to show in the film, the director blurs this place or brings in Western life. At the beginning of the movie, it tells the part-time job of a child to help others with dogs and children in order to earn money. I really thought it was a story that happened in Chinatown in the United States. Even if the RMB banknotes I am familiar with appeared, I would not Still didn't realize it was in China. And according to the city where the child lives near the wharf and their route, it can be inferred that the city where the child lives should be in the south, and few southern families make steamed buns. And I don't know why the director said in the film that his cousin was recommended to be sent to a medical school in Beijing, or he thought that Chinese children are very good at learning, but the actual situation in China is that those who can be recommended will not be children from poor families. Or a student who gets along well with girls. Then, they came to a city like Guilin. In order to show the characteristic China in their impression, the director put on the clothes of the Republic of China for the characters in the animation. But the heroine's dress looks very western at first glance, I can't understand the outfit combination. (I know I shouldn't pick up the details...) Although I know that animation is a lot of impossibility, the pictures and plots shown in this film are China in the eyes of the West. In addition, the female protagonist actually plays the violin, adding traditional Chinese musical instruments, perhaps it will not be able to capture the visual sense of Western and Chinese. In the animation, the western violin is directly used as an emotional carrier, which saves a lot of music production costs.
I think this is just a film with a little Chinese attractions and a little Chinese elements. It can be applied to any country without these. I haven't seen any other animated movies nominated for Oscar either, so I don't know if it's better than those nominated, but I think this movie is a very simple and ordinary animated movie with no special features.
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