Hello everyone, I'm Alaska with glasses and a microphone.
The New Year's Day stalls at the beginning of the new year seem to be surrounded by love and warmth.
"Send You a Little Red Flower", "Warm Hug"...
Let's not talk about how the movie was shot, at least you can tell from the name that it's all about moving.
After all, 2020 has been too bitter, and the new year needs such warmth.
There are a lot of new films, but what made the film finally enter the theater is an old film that has been released for 12 years...
Ponyo on the cliff
The film, first released in 2008, may be more familiar to audiences by another name: "Ponyo on the Cliff"
In the mysterious sea, all kinds of marine creatures randomly grow into their favorite appearances.
The ocean magician is constantly mixing the potions in his hands to purify the marine environment.
A small goldfish with a human face quietly stuck its head out, and while the magician was not paying attention, he took the jellyfish bus and rushed to the sea.
On the cliff by the shore, there lives a family, the mother's name is Lisa, and the little boy's name is Sousuke.
Sousuke's father was a captain who often went to sea.
And Sousuke's favorite thing is to go to the beach and play with his toy boat.
The little goldfish is drifting on a jellyfish, but accidentally encounters a marine garbage cleaning ship...
The rubbish thrown by humans in the sea keeps rolling and rolling into ugly waves.
Although the little goldfish dodged the cleaning net, it collided with a glass bottle that was tightly seamed, and was strangled by the head of the fish...
Fortunately, one person and one fish met.
Sousuke was curious and picked up the stranded goldfish glass bottle.
He helped the little goldfish break open the glass bottle, and the little goldfish also licked his hand that was scratched by the glass.
From then on, Sosuke and the little goldfish became good friends, he filled the goldfish in a small green bucket and gave her a name:
Ponyo.
Sousuke takes Ponyo to kindergarten, feeds her ham, and introduces her to children and elderly people in nursing homes.
And Ponyo unexpectedly learned to speak...
The mouth is just a sentence:
"Ponyo, I like it, Sousuke!"
Yes, Ponyo likes Sousuke, like this little boy who takes her everywhere to see the world.
Sousuke also likes Ponyo, even though he is only 5 years old now and doesn't understand or even hear the word "love".
The grandmother at the nursing home told Sousuke that the landing of a human-faced goldfish would cause a tsunami.
Sousuke didn't care, and ran away with Ponyo...
The tsunami, for a five-year-old child, seems too far away.
But the old man was right, the tsunami would really come.
The magician found that Ponyo was lost, and activated the power of the sea to take Ponyo away.
But if you think the magician is some kind of villain, you are wrong.
He is also just a father who misses his daughter.
Ponyo is the daughter of the magician and the sea god. The magician hates the human world and chooses to live in the sea. He does not want Ponyo to return to the sea.
Because he was once a human being and saw through the evil in the human world.
Sousuke's father also worked at sea, and he was often unable to go home to accompany his wife and son because of his work.
But when the ship passes by the house, the searchlight will be turned on, and between light and dark, the most sincere words will be typed with the family in Morse code.
"I love you, I love you very, very much."
"Sorry."
Sousuke will also respond to Dad with a searchlight, wishing him a good voyage.
The warmth and love of the family has always been implicit and real.
Sousuke and Ponyo are still young, but they know how to feel the love around them.
Their feelings are also the purest.
In order to meet Sousuke, Ponyo grew human hands and feet and gave up the magic of the ocean without hesitation.
Sousuke was with Ponyo, and he didn't care if she was half human and half fish.
Miyazaki said he wanted to make a movie that a 5-year-old could understand.
It has no profound meaning, no bizarre world, but only the purest essence of love.
Sousuke's father and son are often unable to get together, but the father's love for the family has not diminished because of the distance.
Although her mother, Lisa, called her husband a "stupid," she was the first to greet him with open arms when he returned after the tsunami.
She is the one who worries the most about the "idiot".
Although Ponyo's magician father didn't like Ponyo's entry into the human world, when Ponyo met Sousuke, he was worried, but still respected Ponyo's choice.
And between Sousuke and Ponyo, they even told us that to meet someone we like, we must run.
If nothing else, in this movie, you may also see one of the most powerful hugs of the new year.
Hayao Miyazaki is right, this may indeed be a child's story, but the people who are moved by him are adults who have "grown up" for a long time.
Perhaps it is precisely because of the existence of such films that we are constantly reminded of the way the world was when we first opened our eyes to recognize it.
In the movie, it seems that the troubles in life can be forgotten for a moment.
Everyone is like the Ponyo who just poked his head out of the sea, finding the innocence and courage that he may have lost long ago.
Who doesn't want to be a 5 year old?
It's impossible to go back in time, but movies seem to help you dream.
This may be Miyazaki's gift to every adult.
Compared to "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro", "Ponyo on the Cliff" may not be Miyazaki's most famous film, but it is definitely the most attentive one.
More than 170,000 manuscripts were drawn stroke by stroke by Miyazaki, who was nearly 70 years old at the time.
If you insist on creating every day, a picture of just a few seconds may take a week to complete.
But in fact, at that time, CG technology was quite mature, and the peak work "Avatar" was also created at almost the same time.
At this moment, choosing to hand-paint the whole chapter is Miyazaki's most sincere love letter to animation.
At the end of the credits, everyone involved in the animation staff has a handwritten name.
And, in front of the name, Hayao Miyazaki drew a one-to-one corresponding small pattern based on his knowledge of the staff and combined with the characteristics of each person.
This is the kind of romance that industrial-age movies can't learn.
And Hayao Miyazaki seems to be using this movie to speak his most unspeakable words.
The prototype of the movie comes from Hayao Miyazaki's own son, Goro Miyazaki. Sousuke in the film is actually what Goro looked like when he was 5 years old.
Due to his focus on creation, Hayao Miyazaki was often unable to fulfill his father's responsibilities. Since Wu Lang was very young, the relationship between father and son gradually became estranged.
Hayao Miyazaki himself is the captain's father who couldn't go home to fulfill his promise in the animation...
In the movie, the phrase "I'm sorry" played by a searchlight is what Miyazaki wants to say to his children the most outside the movie.
Similarly, Hayao Miyazaki is also the magician rooted in the sea.
The magician is a human, but he opposes Ponyo's return to the ground. Just like Wu Lang decided to become an animation director, but his father, who is also an animation director, stood up against it.
In front of others, he is the animation master of Haina, but in front of his son, he has become a cliff that prevents the child from moving forward.
This is not the way love is supposed to be.
The magician finally put Ponyo back on the ground. Although there may have been all kinds of worries and reluctance, the moment he let go, there were only blessings.
Hayao Miyazaki used the roles of the captain's father and the magician to complete his reconciliation of his life and his family.
It seems like a simple story, but behind it is an old man's deep thinking about family and love, which he spent his whole life in exchange for.
Hayao Miyazaki hopes that this film can bring people back to that pure five-year-old time.
he made it.
The moment you sit in the cinema, this world created with animation will surround you.
The sea that embraces all things, vivid and lovely images, and sincere words are enough to impress everyone who watches it with their hearts.
Poseidon tells Sousuke that when he returns to the ground, he can turn Ponyo into a human by kissing Bubbles.
When the water came out, Ponyo couldn't wait to jump up and kiss Sousuke.
The film comes to an abrupt end at this moment, leaving us with the first beautiful picture of 2021.
In the new year, someone will jump up and kiss you, and I hope you can feel the tenderness and warmth of this world more and more.
Oh yes, remember to click like, warm or something, I also want to feel it~
Bye bye!
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Editor: Arlo
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