Due to geographical restrictions and other factors in Japan, their hand-drawn animation industry is very strong. I have to say that Jin Min is a very strong director. His works go deeper into the spiritual level of the characters. The montage effects between dreams and reality are really fascinating. In this "The House of Weima", he abandoned the skills that are most likely to win applause, such as exquisite painting skills and peculiar scenes, and only worked on the narrative to produce a psychological thriller full of suspense. Of course, this animation is not for children, but adults can read it.
Summary of the story: Wei Ma plans to transform from a singer in a second-tier idol group to a TV actor. Although this kind girl still loves singing, but because she doesn't want to cause trouble to the office, she resolutely begins to transform, but she is not an actor. So easy to face some out-of-the-ordinary performances and daring attempts. Wei Ma gradually began to have schizophrenia, and the photographers, screenwriters, and managers around him were killed one after another. Who is the real culprit? TA also stretched his claws to Wei Ma... Reality and illusion are intertwined through editing skills, bringing out many possibilities for the development of the story. Until the real murderer shows up at the end, all the previous arrangements can read the story from a new angle.
In reality, Wei Ma is desperately trying to make the transition from an idol singer to an actor, filming raped scenes, taking nude photos... She has to bear a lot of psychological pressure from the transformation; subconsciously, Wei Ma still likes to be a singer again. Go to the stage where fans applaud to continue her dream; Liu Mei, as Weima's manager, is also her fan, she used to be a girl with dreams, and Weima is a sustenance for her to realize her dream; Mr. me-mania, A perverted fanatic born in Ma's repressed mind, the self-comfort that Wei Ma can find in the pain of transformation comes from Mr. Me.
The surreal scene is that Mima sees another self-the singer who is a singer shaking in front of his eyes. This scene is made in animation and also uses a mirror. This reminds me of Darren Novsky's "Black Swan", in fact, Darren really likes Jin Min's work (and once said that he would make this cartoon into a movie), these two works have the same purpose, in the thriller, the mirror is very useful The props, in the mirror, the heroine sees another self, both real and fantasy, to achieve self, she must go crazy... Nina, who was split in the mirror, did it, and Wei Ma, who was confused in the subconscious, did it. I have to mention Darren Novsky's "Requiem for a Dream". Darren's work has a set of shots that pay tribute to Jin Min. In "The House of Weima", Jin Min used a bird's-eye view to shoot Wei. Ma buried her face in the water, feeling like she was about to suffocate, she soaked her face in the water, and then she couldn't hold back and yelled "Bastard". And Darren reproduced this scene in his own film, the same overlooking perspective, Jennifer Connelly, who was soaked in the water, also buried her face in the water...
Let's talk about David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive", which is also a very good work that can integrate reality and dream. Surrealism has always been Lynch's best, but after reading this work by Mr. Jin Min, I am Sighing that his skills are more profound, Jin Min in 1998 is only 35 years old, and his brain structure is extraordinary. Jin Min's unique editing method keeps each scene changing (it is said that this is because the length of the film has to be guaranteed, so the editing has to be accelerated, and more than 100 sub-shots have been cut, but it is precisely because of this that Jin Min's unique editing style is formed. Right), which preserves the narrative space and perfectly presents the complex and smooth subconscious stream. He was able to make such sharp works more than ten years ago. The ingenious narrative structure has made every minute of the film unmissable, and I regret that the film has been stored on the computer hard drive for so long before opening it.
Jin Min is a real master of dream-making. Although he has only a few directorial works, they are all excellent. "Millennium Actress" reviews the history of Japanese film and describes a beautiful love. "Red Pepper" is like "Inception" The source of inspiration, the devouring of reality by illusion makes us unclear what reality is, and the family love described in "The Godfather of Tokyo" is so sincere. . . Dean, director of "How to Train Your Dragon" said, "Jin Min has used hand-painted media to reveal the society and show human psychology. He points his perspective to the complex aspects of life and human beings, which is very difficult in a live-action film. Do it. Most of the time what he shows is rough, tense, and even nightmarish. But Jin Min never shy away from adult themes, or the sensitivity of live-action movies, his films always occupy The most charming middle ground between cartoons and the real world."
Finally, I found Jin Min's suicide note and read it word by word, I was very moved. Teacher Jin Min said that he was grateful for the beauty of this world. It's really a pity that he passed away at the age of 47. You must know that if he can live to Hayao Miyazaki (the works after "My Neighbor Totoro" are all born after he was 47 years old), the old man will definitely make more at his age. Excellent work. In his suicide note, he said that he gave up using anti-cancer drugs, "to spend the rest of the day in the way he chose." He was thinking about his last unfinished work, "Dream Machine", which was his first for children. childlike animation. It will be released in 2011, I think I will continue to pay attention to it.
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