For Chinese people, the word "Christmas" is not full of the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new like in the West, but more like an excuse to go shopping or collect gifts. However, it is also the East. Christmas, which has been introduced since the Meiji Restoration era, is much more valued in Japan, and the festive atmosphere is far higher than that of China. Dongying's animation master Toshiba uses "Christmas" to tell a warm new story.
When it comes to Jin Min, his untimely talent and untimely death are both embarrassing. Although there are not many works, there are few directors who can achieve the classics like him, and the themes and types of each film are absolutely the same. Love, suspense, thriller, science fiction, all kinds of elements can be played by him with applause. If "reality" and "fantasy" are the two key words of Jin Min animation, then in "Tokyo Godfather", these two words are well combined, not only the observation of reality, but also full of beauty Romance, at least the softest of his works.
However, even with a happy ending, Jin Min did not let the joy come so directly, but made the film full of bitterness and loneliness for most of the time, just like the ice and snow on Christmas Eve. Under the glowing neon lights and the towering Tokyo Tower, there are three homeless people and a large number of low-level people struggling. The red Tokyo Tower appears suddenly in the background countless times as a symbol, but for the characters in the dark foreground, it seems to be another world out of place, and how to survive is what they are most concerned about.
So, in this case, the dramatic conflict comes. The three homeless people found an abandoned baby in the process of scavenging waste. Whether to keep or send them away not only became a heart disease that made them repeatedly tangled and hesitated, but also made them go through a miracle of encountering various coincidences and gradually finding psychological salvation. night.
Lao Jin met a loan shark who had separated his wife and family, and then met his daughter in the hospital, whom he hadn't seen for a long time; A Hua had no choice but to seek help from his mother, Sang, who used to be a gay singer; The father who was stabbed before leaving... The past of the three people was slowly uncovered on the way to find the parents of the abandoned baby. On the one hand, the sad and bitter experience is the source of their use of alcohol to drown their sorrows and self-defeating, but on another level, once some external force forces the parties to face up to this memory again, it may also become a powerful force for them to change their minds and start over. . In this film, this external force is the abandoned baby "Qingzi" they found.
This incomparably beautiful, lovely, and pure "Qingzi" in their eyes gave them the motivation to help her find her parents, and as a result sparked their inner longing for a better life. "Qingzi" was like a catalyst, causing the three to break down Depressed hearts rekindled. The end of the film is very exciting. The previously slow rhythm suddenly accelerated, and the plot reached a climax in the rhythm of critical but frequent jokes. The three wanderers completed their self-redemption and also redeemed others. From the passive beginning of the movie Negative to this moment of initiative, indicating that their mentality has finally turned from haze to sunshine.
"Tokyo Godfather" can be seen as another interpretation of Jin Min's birth of Jesus. In this fairy tale story, although there is no mercy from God, it is full of true feelings from the world. It's Christmas time again, I wish everyone in the world peace and joy!
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