A file written a few years ago ( 2016-11-03 16:54:20 )
I just glanced at the introduction, and the language column of this movie is very arrogant to write "no". As an "abnormal" Ghibli animation (it is said that there are only six members from Ghibli), it seems to be stable at the Japanese box office. I was surprised when I first learned that the producer was Toshio Suzuki, because he really doesn't seem like someone who would push films that obviously belong to a small audience. A small old man who looks sophisticated and cunning. I don't know what the years have brought him. Thanks for the years and Mr. Suzuki for his enlightenment.
It is said that Ghibli wrote to him after seeing Michael's "Father and Daughter" at first, asking him if he could authorize the short film to be shown in Japan, and if he could help them make a full-length feature. Mr Michael was very surprised. Then, this Japanese-French cooperation animated film "Minimalism French with only crabs is Ghibli style" was born.
In fact, sitting in a dark movie theater, when the sound of the waves sounded, I thought I would like this movie. The content of the story is very simple. A man floats to an uninhabited island. As a tenacious male protagonist, he builds a bamboo raft and tries to escape from the island again and again, but every time he is caught by a huge red raft. Turtles block. In order to take revenge, the angry male protagonist stomped the turtle a few times when it came ashore, and the turtle stopped moving. A fantastic fairy tale begins here. The loggerhead turtle turned into a woman. The woman pushed her shell away, and the man pushed away the bamboo raft. The two of them lived happily on this small island. They had their own children and experienced tsunami and pain. , separation, reunion, experience children grow up and adults leave the island, until the man dies, the woman turns into a turtle and returns to the sea.
The viewing process is really very enjoyable. The realistic style of painting, without too much facial expression and language, makes the audience seem to be in trouble with the male protagonist, on the island together, and confused about the direction of fate together.
I think what the director wants to talk about is maybe the general life, much like the kind of fables that I read when I was a child. The male protagonist falls into a stone cave as a metaphor for the common predicaments in life, and constantly wants to escape from the island metaphor for the pursuit of freedom. After meeting the heroine, she voluntarily discarded the bamboo raft, and the heroine discarded the tortoise shell, which is a metaphor for the bondage of marriage to both husband and wife. Then they gave birth to a son. The little boy also fell into the cave and rescued himself like the male protagonist. Self-rescue in the cave is very much like a growing ceremony, and the glass bottle that the little boy picked up is something outside the island, which is a metaphor for someone other than home. The world, and then the little boy left home, leaving behind a couple who slowly turned into an old man.
But until the end of the male protagonist lying on the beach to die quietly, the female protagonist turned into a turtle and returned to the sea, leaving the male protagonist's body lying on the beach alone, I suddenly felt terrified, maybe this is not a fantasy story, maybe it is just A man who was killed on an island tried many times to escape to no avail, so he relied on Zhuo Qun's imagination to support his life in desperation.
It's cruel, isn't it, but if you think about it, it's more like a normal life.
We live a normal life every day, and occasionally encounter some difficulties and occasionally happy things. We have some friends who can tell the truth and relatives who accompany us for a certain period of life. But sometimes the whole day is finally over, and when I go home and look at myself in the mirror, I think to myself, I have made an effort to be understood by the world today, although it has not stopped becoming unfamiliar.
Perhaps in general, no one does not die alone.
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