performed skillfully and steadily, and received sparse applause.
There are posters with him on the door of various concert halls, nightclubs and clubs. There is no fixed stage, fixed audience, fixed income, and the performance is not applauded. Only a grumpy prop bunny who likes to bite keeps him company.
In the lonely street, he looked around for the stage. It's a stark contrast to a band that goes out of its way to please the audience with exaggerated performances. His presence was always accompanied by loneliness and scattered audience attendance.
In one show he solidified the passionate Scotsman. He gave the magician a business card and invited him to a local gig.
It was a backcountry, and after several days and nights of trains and ferries finally arrived at the small island town. He went to perform at the local tavern, although people still didn't show much enthusiasm for his performance. But here he met Alice. A little girl doing odd jobs in a tavern. Alice is fascinated by his magic. Think he has magic. With curiosity and reverence, the girl helped him do the laundry. And the magician decided to give Alice a new pair of shoes in return after discovering the crack in Alice's shoes.
The folk customs of the whole town are simple and honest, and everyone lives in their own world, peacefully meditating, and gives a friendly reception to the magician. I even want the magician to stay in this lovely little town forever. Don't go to the troubled world to stay and rely on.
There is a lot of brush and ink on the landscape in the film. Neither thick nor light just describes the loneliness and calmness in the countryside under the noisy exterior of the city at that time. Two different scenarios are also compared.
The lint floated, and the girl mistakenly thought it was snowing when she returned the laundry, and helped set the fireplace in the magician's room on fire. Later, when the magician returned home, Alice found that it was not snowing, and even more believed that the magician had magic. After the magician turned the little red shoes for her and she received it by surprise, I think that at this time Alice has I want to follow the magician's idea.
The girl secretly followed the magician away from the island and had to show up when the ferry was about to check tickets. The magician rented a humble hotel in Edinburgh, and let Alice sleep in the only bed. There lived many entertainers as poor as the magician. They were all equally poor but kind and friendly. The girl meets ventriloquist puppeteers and clowns. She thought of giving them one after she made the meal. The clown's daily work is to be funny, but he is decadent and lonely in the apartment. The sad and lonely alcoholic and anesthetized with music on his face, was rescued by Alice's soup at the moment when he finally wanted to commit suicide, and tried to finish it.
The old magician's sharp agent introduced him to a small theater for profit. He went to the show every night, but only got a meager income. Every night, Alice went to the door and waited for him to finish the performance and go home together. The lovely and simple Alice is not so lovable by the audience. She thinks that everything can be changed to her by magicians. She is new to everything when she first arrives in a big city. Her eyes fell on the dazzling display windows, with gorgeous coats, beautiful skirts, and elegant high heels. She hadn't seen it before. She wanted it, and she showed it to the magician. The magician secretly calculated the cost, smoked and lingered in front of the store, and after a while, he gritted his teeth and bought it for Alice, and then eagerly took it back. Home to her. The old magician, who is in stark contrast to the girl's fashion outfit, is always in an old earth-red suit. The old magician Paspas's income is not enough to buy those expensive clothes for Alice, and he told her once , but Alice did not understand. So the magician did not explain further. He had to work more to get paid to meet Alice's needs. Alice's vanity has been satisfied, and in the process of being satisfied, Alice is also growing up a little bit, from a girl to a woman.
Paspas took good care of Alice, "huhu" for Alice when she was bitten by a rabbit, ran to her side to protect Alice when she accidentally ran into the road, and bought it on the way home Bring the sausages to Alice, wait patiently at the dinner table when Alice cooks for him and send it to others, sneak up to the auto repair shop after Alice falls asleep and keep a part-time vigil - thinking it will give her more in exchange clothing (and he didn't understand anything, was fired very quickly and lost his salary)
Alice helps him make a pot of soup at the ventriloquist puppet's request, and Paspas mistakenly thinks she was using rabbits as a material. Showed sadness and nervousness, but did not complain. Only to find that the rabbit is still wiping sweat with a napkin, but still performing a little magic for Alice at the dinner table. Alice also asks the magician for a kiss at the door when she takes him to a show. This is the deepest expression of their love.
Time flies, the days go by, the artists in the hotel change with the times, the clown leaves, the acrobatic brothers also have a new job, Alice grows up, the theater owner gives the agent the last fee, and the agent takes a cut. Paspas leaves. Old Paspas had to look for a new job to make ends meet. At this time, he thought of the company business card given to him by the acrobatic brothers, so he came to the advertising agency. Here they use their expertise to work for the company, and the boss, seeing the magician working with magic, can't help but have the idea for him to go to the department store and stand in the window to advertise. And Alice's old friend, the puppet of the ventriloquist puppet artist, was also taken to the thrift store for sale. Alice felt very lonely in the room, and when she looked around, she saw a boy reading a book across the street.
It is said that the acrobatic brothers are very cute, "quack" has been full of energy, jumping and rolling.
This kind of life always has an ending. Paspas went home and overslept after selling alcohol at the hotel, so that he lost his job. In this depressed society, the job was quickly replaced by new candidates, and at this time Paspas accidentally bumps into Alice who is dating the boy. He realized that the girl had grown up and that his time with him had to end. decided to leave. After leaving Alice the note and money, the old magician embarked on a journey to a distant place. In the end, I told Alice that "there are no magicians in the world do not exist"
and Alice was hiding in the rain at the door of the clothing store when she was dating the boy. There were naked models without clothes in the window. I think it also symbolized the relationship between Alice and the boy. Sincerity is not polluted by material, and it should also have the meaning of pure desire of the person in love. Alice has grown up to the age where she can afford to be parted, and she has someone to take care of herself instead of Paspas. Although it is two different kinds of love, the feelings are the same.
The final film soundtrack is accompanied by the main melody of the piano and the accompaniment of the orchestral texture.
The whole is divided into four parts. The music at the beginning and end is A and A' reappearance, which correspond to each other. Show Paspas from the first person state to the last person state. In the middle, B and C are respectively going to Scotland to meet Alice, and returning to Edinburgh to live with Alice. The performance of music has also changed from lightness, freedom, freshness, and emotional novelty to responsibility, the pressure of life and the intensity of feelings.
Many people have written the movie review of this animation as a deep fatherly love. This pure unrequited love is the expression of pure love. No matter what your circumstances are, it is an unreserved effort. It is also the highest state of love,
but when I quietly watched it, I just felt lonely except for love. I can't enjoy being alone, so I have a lot of respect for Paspas. He can face this head on. Or is it the intuitive consciousness of European and American people? It's just that everyone calms down when it's time to let go. "No matter how it will end, at least we once had" So, no matter how much Paspas did for Alice, or how long they were together, what they went through. Alice will eventually grow up to belong to someone else. It's not that Paspas doesn't love her enough, it's just that his performance is coming to an end. To be replaced or can be said to be a historical inevitability. If I replace it with a modern Internet brain, I think a sentence is also very suitable: "There will be angels who will love you for me" Paspas only needs to recover to before acquaintance, or alone (this time it is even worse, not even a rabbit) ) Finally, on the way, Paspas holds a photo of his unnamed daughter. His love can be considered to be realized from beginning to end. This love became a memory that embellished his lonely and long life.
So, let me
come quietly and go quietly.
Come alone, go alone.
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