PONYO may be my favorite work by Mr. Gong since Spirited Away. Gorgeous and fresh 2D graphics, simple and romantic little adventure stories. Familiar character settings, the feeling of the plot is very similar to the old palace style in the period of "My Neighbor Totoro" and "The Witch's Delivery Service". It is worth mentioning
about the animation of Dad , PONYO is the first time that Hayao Miyazaki emphasizes the image of his father.
There are two dads: PONYO's Frankenstein dad and Sosuke's sailor dad.
PONYO's strange father seems to be a cynical Frankenstein who lives far away from the world. He appeared as a big villain from the beginning, playing with strange liquids all day long. After PONYO escaped, he chased after him all the way with garbage and monsters. No one would think that this is PONYO's biological father, but it turns out that this strange uncle is actually a good father who is evil on the outside, but loves his daughter deeply in his heart. He is just loving his child in the way he thinks is right. That's it.
Sousuke's father is a sailor, and he spends less time with his family when he goes to sea all the year round. Sometimes the wife is extremely depressed because she is not allowed to enter the house. Causes the absence of the father during the child's growth stage. But this father still loves his family deeply.
Looking back on Miyazaki's works in the past, his father is mostly a positive image of Nausicaa's father who is disabled and Zhijian teaches his daughter to run the country. Pazu's adventurer father is the back dragon that his son follows. The father among cats——The father in the model good man listens attentively and simply takes the image of Lao Gong as the prototype. He is a good father who can no longer be positive, a reasonable, dignified and rational father.
So this time, these two father images are definitely breakthroughs in Miyazaki's works. The father is no longer a perfect and tall image. He may also be crouched in the sewage ditch, constantly being hit on the head by the garbage, and his face may be wretched, but he still pursues him to protect his beloved. child.
Before the release of the film, there was news that the old palace said that Sosuke was based on his 5-year-old son, Goro Miyazaki. The news is amusing. As everyone knows, Miyazaki Goro has always been quite dissent about Miyazaki as a father. When he was doing Earthsea Legend, there were often criticisms of his father's crazy work and not fulfilling his father's duties in the director's blog. So much so that the plot of Allen's father-killing at the beginning of the cartoon is also regarded as Miyazaki Goro's disguised revenge for Hayao Miyazaki.
Perhaps the portrayal of the father's image this time is Lao Gong's response to Wu Lang's dissatisfaction over the years. Maybe that's a little bit of apology. Can this work be regarded as a cartoon made by Hayao Miyazaki as a father specially for his son?
"Nausicaa" and "Kushana" who have become mothers
, Risa is another old palace style who dares to act women. It felt as if Nausicaa had become a mother. Her conversation with PONYO's mom reminds us of Nausicaa's conversation with Kushana. And their farewells can't help but make people think of Lily
's story about PONYO, there are still many question marks, why does PONYO's father stay away from the crowd and live in the bottom of the sea with a bad guy, why did he develop those strange potions, PONYO's old man Who is mom? Why did she and her father become a couple and how did they reproduce XE? What is the relationship between the little fish causing the tsunami and PONYO becoming human? There's a lot to be said for the settings.
Fortunately, it is full of entertainment. This is not a very deep story in itself. It’s good for everyone to watch it happily.
The story is simple but the production is not sloppy. There are 170,000 original handmade paintings, and CG is abandoned. For the action design of the characters, every detail is full of creativity and novelty. This is like a plate of fried vegetables, the simpler it is, the more powerful it is. Of course, there are many rippling places in this film that I like
Loli Shota, and SKY CRAWLERS of Mamoru Oshii, who was released at the same time, watched the spoilers and clips on the official website. The production, pictures and editing of CG special effects are so much to say, the plot setting has been empty and nothingness as always for more than 16 years, and Oshii Mamoru seems to have no breakthroughs that make people eye-catching. Relatively speaking, I'm still on PONYO's side.
The ending song is so cute~~
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