When watching this short film drawn entirely with pencils, the yellow tone like an old picture album adds a little more to the warm soundtrack warm. Looking at the old man wearing a diving suit and persistently diving to the lower floor, the moment he touched his beloved pipe, the floodgate of memory suddenly opened, and the doors were opened one by one. down, dig deep.
The ocean has always been a mysterious and rich image in my heart. It can carry memories, emotions, eternity, and accumulated past. Of course, there is also about life, the origin and return of life, all here, in this deep blue world of tens of thousands of feet, boundless darkness, and incomparably bright. For this animated short film, many people interpret it in the sense of environmental protection from the beginning, but here I want to look at it from another perspective, an emotional perspective. The ocean seems to be a symbol, and such a house that accumulates memories like building blocks is also a fantasy, and it exists in the feeling.
Just noticed that the order in which the old man digs must be from old age to young age? As he kept diving deeper, I suddenly remembered The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It's really amazing, some really good movies will inadvertently come to the level of consciousness in the life experience of deja vu, and the mind will shake, which is embarrassing. And just as there is no need to embrace it with more accolades, a film like this already earns its highest prize when it comes to touching so many people in their private, nuanced moments.
It is also the reverse of time. Benjamin is getting younger and younger, from old to young, and this Japanese old man, under the director's powerful and creative ideas, traveled through the time and space of memory in the deep sea and slowly returned to his youth. , and the time of her childhood sweetheart who has been with her all her life, she has passed through the perseverance at the hospital bedside in old age, staying with each other, passing through the joy of family with children in groups, and passing through the warmth of a small family when she was young, until the two people The best time of all - the acquaintance under the tree, the acquaintance and love, the joy at the moment of mutual agreement for life, and the bottom layer of happiness in the hut where memories are stationed with her little by little. The joy and satisfaction at the beginning of life can make the lonely mood rich and grateful in old age!
In fact, this is a very simple truth. Everyone hopes that time can be mastered, and when the best times become memories, who would want to say: "Let's turn back time!" How many times have passed, I have seen how special the people I have met, what I have encountered will not come back, how lovely there is in everyone, even an ordinary person like the old man in the short film, his whole life It also looks so warm and moving under the reversal of time, that is because we know that all this has passed away and will not come back, buried deep in the bottom of the sea.
With the dream of going back in time in my heart, such a technique in the magic of light and shadow is particularly touching. It is such a universal and most extravagant dream. Only when it is displayed in this way on the screen, everyone can grasp that not. Possible images, chewing alone, sad and joyful alone. The ultimate charm and power of light and shadow lies here. Often people expect too complex, forget the most moving things are simple wishes. I can see Latika appearing at the train station as scheduled, smiling brightly at Gemma above on the platform. That moment is probably the moment Gemma and the audience are most willing to freeze as eternity. At that moment, the two hearts secretly meet Xu, they were sure of each other, so at the end they used a short rewind, through all the chaos and cruelty, to the moment beyond reality - Latika in yellow smiled brightly at Gemma .
As expected.
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