"In less than a minute before and after, with the change of a tree as the background, we went through spring, summer, autumn, winter, clear clouds, rain and snow."
Since last year, there have been two highly anticipated cartoons, one is "Kubo and The two-stringed piano, and the other is Mamoru Hosoda's new work, Son of a Monster.
Since "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" in 2006, Mamoru Hosoda will launch a new work on average every three years. "Son of the Monster" is another work after a three-year lapse of "Son of the Wolf". In the story of "Monster's Son", the human world and the monster world coexist independently. The background of the story spanning the two worlds is somewhat similar to that of "Summer War", and one of the official posters is simply the poster of "Summer War" copy of . Compared with "Son of the Wolf", I personally prefer the story type of "Xia Zhan", which is simple and fun, yet delicate and restrained.
"Monster's Son" tells the story of a lonely boy and a lonely monster. They say they are monsters, but they are actually anthropomorphic animals. The middle school boy who ran away from home strayed into the monster world and met the same eccentric and stubborn bear man. At first, the two became masters and apprentices because of what they needed, and they learned from each other's strengths and weaknesses in practice and experience. With the passage of time, not only has the family relationship between the two become stronger, but the individual's martial arts and mentality have also been greatly improved.
It may be the reason why I haven't watched the Asian animation masterpiece for a long time. In less than two minutes at the beginning, the superb action design and the immersive background music are enough to attract people's attention, especially the picture of the pig king drawing the sword, how many times I have watched it Neither is enjoyable.
With the end of the impassioned preface, the "coming and going" of various characters are laid out one after another. The first half of the film also explained several foreshadowings while narrating, including the shadow in Jiutai's heart, Xiong Che's reckless and selfish personality, the master's advice and the hat worn by the eldest son of Zhuwangshan, and counting the Jiutai when he grew up. The 119-minute-long cartoon seems to contain a lot of things.
When they traveled around the world together, there was a little shadow of "Journey to the West", and the strengths and weaknesses shown by different masters were also quite profound. But what I like the most is the scene when Jiutai and Xiong Che practice together. In less than a minute before and after, with the change of a tree as the background, after the spring, summer, autumn, winter, clear clouds, rain and snow, it not only reflects the role The growth of the story also completes the transition in the story.
Although Japanese animation films also include Hayao Miyazaki, Makoto Shinkai and Mamoru Hosoda, they are far less than the stable output of Disney, DreamWorks and Pixar. You can see several Hollywood animation films a year, but only one in a few years. Japanese animation masterpiece. Compared with the tricky Easter egg settings in Hollywood animation movies, Japanese animation movies are known for their delicateness. Rigorous painters restore real things to paper, whether it is a tree in the background or the entire street, it is all in a close look. lifelike.
In "Son of the Monster", the painters restored Shibuya, Tokyo very realistically to the film as one of the main scenes in the human world.
Compared with the diffuse development in the first half of the film, the narrative in the second half of the film is too rushed. The heroine, the human father and "Moby Dick" appeared one after another in a short period of time, so that the last one with a wild boar Tooth's whale is a little less surprising. Compared with the happy and long growth story, although several foreshadowings have already been set, the final ending is also a little hasty.
Exquisite and delicate pictures, in-depth stories, feelings without words, and encounters in the dark, "Son of Monsters" not only reflects the unique humanistic thinking of the East, but also a rare masterpiece.
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