Some thoughts after watching it six times

Carli 2022-03-23 09:03:03

"This is my favorite animated feature film."

I am afraid I will have this idea in five or ten years, as long as I am in a foreign country, as long as I am alone in the city, as long as I am still chasing my dreams or being "suppressed" by reality... I will definitely do this. miss.


[20190621 I read it five times to complete the final homework of the animation planning class]

1. Although "Broken Hand" desperately pursues the original owner, just as black boys cannot chase dreams and girls, even if it finally finds its owner, it is difficult to fill the reality that is blocked by the white and dazzling bandages. I really like the stream-of-consciousness collage of various clips at the end of the whole film. I thought that black boys would be so disappointed in this world that they jumped off the building and committed suicide, but in the end, lying on the rooftop and listening to the wind and smiling, made me seem to see a soul borrowing the wind. and videotape, to record the warmest embrace that oneself cast to the world, this is a kind of personal warmth after hardship;

2. Enlarging a single part of the human body and expressing it as a character, and constantly in the "visual" two-dimensional, with the help of montage and scene application to emphasize the tiny "touch" (such as playing the piano, playing the cello, sawing wood and other plots, Both use close-up or close-up to show the "hand");

3. Metaphors and delicate expressions of small objects: radio equipment (corresponding to girls wearing headphones / constant retrospect of the past), astronauts and pianists (dreams and construction site towers) / flies (couldn’t catch in childhood, long big catch)

【20201220 Xi’an Lumière French Film Festival】——I had goosebumps watching it at home before, but this time I simply cried from beginning to end in the theater

1. Self-rebuilding after five losses: family, love, social, body, dreams

2. "Igloo in the Wind": This was a metaphor casually mentioned by Gabiel, but it became a spiritual shelter built by this lonely listener in the involuntary social whirlpool. "I" longed to stand. Going high, eager to realize his dream of being an astronaut and a pianist, he hid all his secret thoughts in the bricks and bricks of the igloo. Smashing an igloo is self-destruction, and burying an igloo in the snow is an overlap of arctic ideals and icy realities.

3. Very existentialist style ("existence precedes essence"): Even the "losers" in the general perception of society should cheer for every leap of their own accord. Life is the continuous shattering and rebuilding of the existing cognition and stable status quo. To live by one's own will is success.

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Extended Reading
  • Alisa 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    The imaginative French animation, the director and screenwriter have previously filmed [Schizophrenia], and the other screenwriter is the author of [Amelie]. The broken-hand viewpoint like a thriller action movie, the cross-editing of the host's childhood and recent past events not only activates a new body perception among the viewers, but more importantly, it does not stop after encountering the past and the present, and is bold An astonishing leap was made to extend life into a short-lived future that borders on chaotic free will. The film's soundtrack is one of the best of the year, overlapping seamlessly with the footage. Pigeons, mice, igloos, tapes, blood-red jibs, umbrellas spinning and rising. (8.5/10)

  • Uriel 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    When we were young, we wanted to be pianists and astronauts, and our parents and we all felt that our future had broad choices and infinite possibilities. We grew up full of expectations and enthusiasm, and then found that our choices became narrower and more limited, and the possibilities became more and more limited. After being pressed to the ground by life and rubbing against the ground, we can only become couriers and takeaway brothers. The hand we have lost is hope, passion and dream, even if it comes back to us one day after all the hardships, only to find that we have lost the ability to have it. Nothing lasts forever except loneliness.

I Lost My Body quotes

  • Naoufel: That it must be peaceful to be cut off from the world like that. To see nothing... hear nothing...

  • Naoufel: Do you believe in fate? No, seriously.

    Gabrielle: That everything is written in advance? That we follow a trajectory?

    Naoufel: Yeah

    Gabrielle: And that we can't change anything?

    Naoufel: We think that we can, but we can't. It's an illusion. Unless we do... Something completely unpredictable and irrational. It's the only way to conjure the spell for good.