The short film is only 6 and a half minutes long, but the rhythm is very lively. Although it only tells a story about encounters and fate, it seems that all kinds of passing by are all paving the way for the gorgeous encounter at the end.
Timeline paper is used to tell the story this time
, and this clue can be said to run through the whole film. There are two different ways of interpreting Paperman. You can think that Paperman refers to the male protagonist, a person who works with paper, and is married because of paper; you can also think that Paperman refers to the one printed with The lip-printed paper, the paper that has become spiritual, a kind of anthropomorphic setting. Xiaoxia thinks it will be more literary if understood in the second way.
At 00:00, the protagonist stared blankly ahead and waited for the train at the station. The amount of information given to us was already very large. The hard-working clerks who took the tram had a repetitive and boring life, and their spare time life was boring. The emphasis was on being single! And everything is condensed in this dull and empty eyes.
At 00:22, the paper clue appeared for the first time, and the heroine was also brought out. The female protagonist chased a piece of paper that was floating in front of the male protagonist. The two met like this, and the story officially began. At this moment, the male protagonist's eyes lit up. It seems that the appearance of the heroine is the light in his life.
00:35, notice that the male protagonist has a small movement at this time, which is the clenched fist of his right hand. From this small body language, the nervousness of the male protagonist at this time can be vividly expressed. It can be said that this is a classic love at first sight story. Then, the paper came out to grab the spotlight and was blown on the face of the heroine. A token of love, a piece of paper with a lip print appeared and ran through the short film.
At 00:43, when the female protagonist found her lips printed on the paper and laughed, the male protagonist's reaction was also intriguing. The male protagonist's first reaction was to observe himself to see if he made a fool of himself, which made the female protagonist laugh. This is a direct manifestation of inferiority complex, or a habit of thinking, because I am often teased or disliked by my colleagues, so when an accident happens, I always feel that I have not done a good job. And when he realized why, the male protagonist finally showed a simple and honest smile.
At 01:30, the female protagonist just left at the station, and then when the male protagonist was thinking about it, she appeared in the room opposite the male protagonist's office building for an interview. This is called unforgettable, and there must be an echo. The shot here is very reminiscent of "Single Men and Women 2", where Gu Tianle played tricks in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows. And the male protagonist is relatively boring, and his tricks for flirting with girls are just paper airplanes.
Later, the male protagonist kept trying to use the paper airplane to attract the female protagonist's attention, but every encounter with the paper airplane was just like the various obstacles encountered by the boy when he pursued the girl. With the music, it seems that fate is also deliberately making fun of the male protagonist.
At 02:45, the male protagonist took the last token of love and made a desperate bet as the last bargaining chip, but was cruelly teased again. At this time, the boss handed over a stack of forms. On the one hand, it shows that the male protagonist has always been overwhelmed by this endless work task. A pointless attempt to test one's persistence. Here, the little man thought that the male protagonist would come to the window with a form to scatter flowers from the goddess to get the female protagonist's attention. As a result...
04:00, the printing paper was refined under the persistence of the male protagonist, and the male and female protagonists were matched. Meet at the last station.
The characters in the film have a strong Disney style, especially the heroine. The characters have no dialogue, and the color tone is also black and white, completely to highlight the bright red lip print color. Compared with the painting style, Xiaoxia prefers the right soundtrack. Without the lines, only the music can fill in the content that the picture cannot fully express. The music represents the kind of emotion that the producer wants to bring you into. The piece is well done.
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