I have seen the full-length version on the Internet before. I went to the cinema last night to brush "Sword Art Online", and I brushed it again and again before "The Shape of Sound" was released.
I watched a few episodes in the first season of "Sword Art Online", but I forgot where I saw it, but it doesn't seem to affect the understanding of the theatrical version; of course, for similar stories, individuals may prefer the ".hack//" series, This theatrical sequel, which tells the real world from VR to AR, is equivalent to the four-part OVA " Liminality " of ".hack//", plus the feeling of artificial intelligence singers like "Macross Plus" - and at that time The soundtrack of Kajiura Yuki fifteen years ago should be the best period of her career... At least Kajiura's current "Sword Art Online" is nothing to remember, even when her name appeared at the beginning I still I was stunned for a while, but in the end, there was no melody that made people stunned for a while; on the contrary, The Who's " My Generation " used in the opening of "Shape of Sound " deserves a high five.
I haven't finished watching the first season of "Sword Art Online" - maybe it is from that time, there is rarely the habit of refreshing and chasing, and three or two years have passed at once. I don’t understand the trend of animation in recent years. I didn’t get to know the superintendent of Yamada Naoko. I haven’t seen any of “Light Sound Girl” and “Tamako Love Story”, although they are very popular. . Looking at it this time, Yamada's performance method is still popular, except for a few, compared to other Japanese animation directors-maybe because of the blessing of the theme, because more Japanese animation works are more or less There will be less fantasy subject matter - there will be more realistic film language, not only the soundtrack, the subject, but also the editing, camera position and so on.
Although I haven't seen Yamada Naoko's work before, I have an impression of Kyoto's animation. I have seen "Blue Sky", "Daily", "Ice Fruit" and so on, and I like it, especially the action design, which is a kind of reference to the early Disney The feeling of live action video design, and some of the camera positions that were previewed through CG are also brilliant, especially "Ice Fruit", I remember there was a movie scene in it... It was said that the original "Shape of Sound" was filmed. It's a pity to think about the plot of the movie, but I didn't use the bridges I was good at.
Although I have seen many animations in Kyoto, the most famous Suzumiya series has only seen the theatrical version. This 162-minute theatrical version ("The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya"), if not counting the 70mm version of "Space Battleship Yamato Ending" If it is, it should be the longest animated film in history, and this 129-minute "Shape of Sound" is also long enough to be ranked in the top 20 longest -running movies. Since the new millennium, it has a duration of more than two hours. There are about 20 or 30 Japanese animated films in China, accounting for more than half of the rankings of Japanese animations in the past 100 years - but even if "Shape of Sound" has such a size, it still fails to successfully complete the shaping of the characters. Although I can vaguely feel the group portrait ambition of the director (or the original author)... the background story of the lack of father symbols , the interaction of single mothers , the communication dilemma implied by the existence of the black brother-in-law (racial segregation) in disorder, etc... But with the current situation For example, the 111-minute movie version that removes a large number of supporting roles and highlights the protagonist is an example. After the group portrait is removed, it is still difficult to focus on showing the suffering of a specific role, and it cannot show the existence of the protagonist as a transcendent contradictory body with abnormal people .
All of these characters seem to lack a central point to materialize around like Lily Chow's etheric music in "All About Lily Chow" - including jumping from a height to commit suicide, including cycling through fields Scenes, including some impressions of the soundtrack... Many details make one wonder if the author or director deliberately paid tribute to Shunji Iwai's film that also contains a school bullying plot - these characters do not feel some kind of gravitational pull towards the essence, all like In sleepwalking general. Greatly reduces the depth of the character.
The script of Reiko Yoshida itself has a strong sense of TVA series composition, and if you want to highlight the group image, you have to spend the length of the episode - even if one episode is 20 minutes and 12 episodes in a season, that's 4 hours. Twice the current duration.
So, in my opinion, if everything is kept simple, if the third act of the movie can be stopped at the fireworks display - two, either die, one or both, and then it stops abruptly - then Makes this movie more interesting. What kind of theme do you want to express because of the use of the drug " school bullying "? communicate? Redemption? Still want to make romance? That will definitely raise doubtful voices. It is better to end with such an ambiguous " anti-redemption ". Using such an anti-routine can reduce another 20 minutes from the overly long third act, and at the same time let the blank The ending is more shocking and topical, rather than guaranteeing a certain degree of completion by prescribing emotional destination such a clumsy and mediocre " looks beautiful " means.
My friend iriselite threw such a question in the question area of the film——
What does the dark tunnel at the end of the film mean?
According to his understanding is this:
I vaguely saw two people, one tall and the other short. It felt like the hero and heroine. Suddenly, I had an ominous premonition. In fact, they both fell and died. The latter part is just their beautiful fantasy. Because it is said that when a person is in a dying state, he will walk through a long tunnel, and his memory will flash back scene by scene. When I went out and saw the light, I officially put on my braids.
This is a rather "Atami's Investigator"-style interpretation direction. If the last scene is matched with Sadie 's mysterious song , then I really believe it. But I have to say that this kind of script awareness will indeed be a good way to avoid controversy; moreover, such a direction is more suitable for developing into a series, not a movie... Maybe an animated version of "Twin Peaks" "--for works similar to reversal design, maybe you can refer to Mizushima Nu's "Missionary" to see how to make the story more direct--even in the theater of "Sword Art Online", "maybe we The second season begins with the question of never leaving that game and it's still in it."
But with this movie version, I don't want its third act to be so long and sluggish that it's easy to speculate . It also fills the head with the BGM of Amazing Grace . It's not redemption, it's more like devotional Stockholm Syndrome. And in the end it felt like nothing was resolved. The best I hope to end in the slow motion frame of the fireworks show jumping off the building, the soundtrack is Chopin 's farewell song, just like Watanabe Shinichiro's "Baby Blue", there must be a vocal blank silence before such a soundtrack starts. Pauses - certainly not like Alfonso Cuaron, who paused for so long that it seemed like a malfunction.
Another reason to end the fireworks show by jumping off the building is to respond to the suicide by jumping into a river at the beginning of the story, which was stopped because of hearing fireworks explode . The whole film can even be further interpreted as a flashback before death, or an inner play of the moment of trying to save oneself like " Stay in Life and Death " - the butterflies and other symbols that appear from time to time in the film can be seen as a hint of Zhou Gongmeng Butterfly, and the corpse photography is also the same. Can be designed as a death cue .
Maybe the film can produce a series of static scene shots at the stage of subtitle STAFF (just like "Cowboy Bebop" ED completes the background of the main story), it can be a series of routine forensic photos of the accident scene after the protagonist's death. But we never know who or how many of the corpses under the tarpaulin will be.
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