" If I choose one that can be called "art treasure" in the animation, then I will only choose "Insect Master".
The narration, the lines, the soundtrack, the colors... each episode is different, yet integrated. Quiet, ethereal, deep, long; or joy, or sadness, but joy is light, even sadness is light.
Insect Master, I can't feel the existence of an animation, but more like -
a collection of narrative prose and poetry, the philosophical lines are spoken through narration or the characters' mouths, like a flowing mountain spring or stream;
A long scroll of ink painting, spring, summer, autumn and winter, the warmth and warmth of human feelings, presented in the ever-changing colors of the landscape, green swamps, white snow, pink cherry blossoms, seven-color rainbows, golden butterflies...;
a set of fresh and A sentimental folk music suite, each story has its own piece; each piece seems to be tailor-made for that particular story, so that you don't feel the soundtrack at that time, but mistakenly think that the story itself is whispering Play, or sing; the music flowed out lightly, and continued lightly until it did not enter the subtitles at the end of the film.
Even if Bugsman isn't my favorite animation, it's not necessarily the best story-telling, or the most beautifully drawn, or the most amazing soundtrack, but it's all together It is like a piece of jasper, a wonderful flower, or, in other words, like those magical and supernatural "worms" in other worlds in the story. Insect Master is by no means the kind that makes people watch it in one breath, but like a small glass of wine every day, a little is enough, and there is still more to it, and looking forward to the next day.
The philosophical concept of the insect master, or the view of nature, does have a taste of Hayao Miyazaki: the so-called "peaceful coexistence of humans and insects". It is especially obvious in some episodes: for example, in the eleventh episode "Sleeping Mountain", the mountain god was killed and replaced by someone, and it ended in a helpless and sad ending, and the mountain returned to the owner it should belong to; episode eighteen "" "The Clothes to Hold the Mountain", people need to coexist with the insects in their home soil to survive in a healthy way; Chapter 24 "Bon Wild Walk", people destroy nature recklessly, for the purpose of self-protection, but in fact bring In the twenty-sixth chapter "The Voice of Treading Grass", mountains have life, and the richness of products comes from the protection of mountains. When all these are abandoned, it is people themselves who are finally abandoned. Among them, in the twentieth chapter "The Sea of Pens", he said it bluntly in a quiet and quiet mouth: "I don't want to hear the story of killing insects anymore."
Insect Master's poetic narration and lines are abundantly reflected in almost every episode. What impressed me the most was probably the sixth chapter "Morning Flowers and Evening Dew", the fifteenth chapter "Xiaochun", and the absolutely classic and irreplaceable chapter 12 "The Fish of the Fish". Especially the opening narration, read out in that old voice, is even more sad and sentimental.
The color of the insect master is difficult to describe in words. I think people who have seen it will have a hard time forgetting the greenness on the girl's end in "The Swamp of Traveling", or they may also sigh with emotion at the green hills painted on the clothes in "The Clothes of Holding Mountains", and they are surprised at the whiteness in "Xiaochun" A colorful and dazzling spring horn in the white snow, or obsessed with the purple, red, golden and unpredictable mountain fog in "The Sound of Treading Grass".
What makes me more interesting is that no matter what kind of philosophical thinking or world view the insect master wants to convey, many parts of the work feel that there are shadows of modern medical/biological issues, but the author uses a kind of The strange "worm" worldview is explained one by one. For example, the fifteenth chapter "Xiaochun" is actually explaining the phenomenon of animal hibernation; the sixteenth chapter "Dawn of the Snake" is full of symptoms of Alzheimer's; Chapter 22 "Dragon Palace in the Sea", that kind of peculiar "worm" can restore human cells to an embryonic state, thereby realizing human "rebirth" (Hey! Isn't this what the so-called cloning technology most wants to do? Able to restore all differentiated cells to totipotent embryonic stem cells...)
Therefore, Insect Master is really not an animation, it is just a strange, flowing life form based on animation...
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