"The Wind Rises" and "The Story of Kaguya Princess" depict a boy who longs for the sky and a girl who is obsessed with the earth. Just like the fate of Ghibli itself, people are worried and sad. The boy has never been able to fly by himself, but the girl is far away To love the land, these two old masters, one looks up to the sky all his life, the other embraces the earth with great concentration.
The sky is so big and unfamiliar, and the ground is underfoot, but it makes people feel at ease.
Takahata Hsun has always been a serious storyteller. The ins and outs, the cause and the effect, and the fate of the characters are all conscientiously told. Even if "Bamboo Tale" is well known in Japan, there is no ambiguity in the overallity of the story. The plot is basically reproduced completely. Think of it this way, the folk myths that I knew when I was a child, whether my mother narrated it or read a picture book, I have a vague memory in my mind, Takahata Isao retains all its soul and gives it a body, and reproduces the myth with delicate brushstrokes. . At the beginning of the film, I saw the old bamboo chopping man cut the bright bamboo joints. When the little princess with the head of the dumplings sat in it, she felt tender and wrapped, and every stroke was the warmth to the world.
The Moon Princess descended to the earth and grew up rapidly in the fields in the mountains, ramming wild boars, chasing pheasants, and running barefoot. After he grew up, he was forced to leave his hometown to live a noble life, and he was unhappy all day long, and finally returned to the moon. In the last shot, she, who had forgotten everything in the world, suddenly burst into tears, was startled, and looked back, the water-blue planet was getting farther and farther away.
Hayao Miyazaki deeply loves the sky, and constantly makes new aircraft to make the protagonist fly, but Isao Takahata is obsessed with reality, in this world that is sometimes not very beautiful and full of trivial troubles. The anti-human Hayao Miyazaki is happy to see the world destroyed, thus creating a world of gods and monsters. And Takahata Isao's escape method seems to be - returning to the homeland. The persistent rural complex is more or less reflected in each of his works, and it is most obvious in his three early works "Girl in the Alps", "A Fairy Tale of Time", and "The Battle of Peace and Establishment".
The female protagonist's film "The Call of the Years (Reminiscence Bits and Bits)" adopts a two-line narrative. The female protagonist Taeko, who is about to turn 30, temporarily escapes from the depressing urban life and returns to the countryside for a vacation, while recalling the bits and pieces when she was 10 years old. . Finally, finding the true meaning of love and life in the countryside seems to imply that a woman wants to make herself better at a turning point in her life, she needs to return to her hometown physically and return to her original state of mind.
The subsequent "Heisei Tanuki War" is also based on traditional Japanese folklore. Tanuki is an animal that is good at illusion and will change into various forms. Humanity's housing development program forces the forest to gradually shrink, and the raccoon's home is in jeopardy, sparking an ironic battle to defend it. The most amazing part of the film is that the raccoons turned into demons and ghosts to conduct a grand "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" in order to frighten humans. The Dream Parade of Red Chili Peppers), originally humans, ghosts, and animals lived on the earth as equals. Humans gradually changed from reverence for gods and raccoons to gradually indifference and even hostility. Threats to existence, he moved forward nonchalantly, heading for a beautiful and civilized new town, full of yearning for a new life before his eyes, where could he hear the cry of the earth beneath his feet. The raccoon couldn't fight against humans, and was finally forced to use illusions to infiltrate the crowd, enter the city to seek life, and compromise with humans. The last time the raccoons used illusions collectively, the purpose was to return to their original forest home. In that illusion, not only raccoons, but also humans saw their past selves and recalled their childhood and relatives in the countryside. Whether it is a raccoon or a human being, they all grow up on the soil, and they are moved by the same thing.
Takahata Xun can never be said to have completely avoided the world. From "My Neighbor Yamada-kun", we can see that he is full of love for the world. Life is bleak and lonely, trivial and boring, and vice versa. Wandering between being born and entering the world, obsessed with the world but often disappointed in the world, under such a complex mood of contradictions, different good works will appear.
Kaguya is the princess who jumped out of the bamboo, just like the bamboo, when she was born, she broke out of the ground, and after all, she was still a bare pole. At this moment, the touching ballad is sung, and I feel the flowers splattered with tears:
Turn and turn, turn the waterwheel ,
call the sun , call the
birds, insects, beasts, call the
plants, flowers,
spring, summer, autumn and winter,
turn, turn, turn back ,
call back the distant past Years
call back the wanderer to return to the heart
, after a few times of sadness and heartbreak, the
pine wind is like calling back home.
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