The film tells the story of a little boy who became good friends with a red balloon. However, the little boy's classmates were attracted by the red balloon and became jealous of the little boy. They wanted to get the red balloon and even break it, but the red balloon did not escape the fate of being destroyed. s story.
The simple theme of the story is very profound. The red balloon is the only friend of this lonely little boy, but it seems to symbolize a kind of childlike innocence, which is suppressed and suppressed by the jealousy of the people around him. Each of us has the pure thing that we want to protect most in our hearts, but we seem to find that it has been wiped out when we walk... It is gratifying that the director did not convey this kind of pessimism, and in the end let the little boy The boy was carried into the air by balloons all over the city, and he kept flying, flying freely, and simply flying. The director may want to tell us that we can actually "fly" too.
The most attractive image in the film should be the teacher in the school, from the doubt and curiosity at the beginning of seeing the balloon to the round and round being played by the balloon. A seemingly serious figure uses the simplicity of a red balloon to bring out his inner complex and meanness. Of course, the image of the protagonist of the little boy cannot be ignored. An innocent but lonely child, when he played hide-and-seek with the balloon, his inner emptiness was even more highlighted. In fact, he was as eager to play as other children. But he is also a very fearless child. When he and other children compete for balloons, the most simple courage drives him to run around the streets with balloons. We always seem to exist in the world in the image of that teacher, suppressing the beauty in our hearts, when can we really be arrogant and be a simple child?
As a short film of more than 30 minutes, the film has almost no dialogue, but the background music has been fully used. The opening and ending songs are the main melody of the film's music, conveying a sense of floating in high pitches, which is very similar to the feeling of balloons. It's a match; in the episode where the teacher is followed by a balloon on the street, the music with a very jumpy rhythm adds a comic effect; in the process of the red balloon being broken and gradually shrinking, all the sound disappears, and there is only a simple long-shot recording This process captured the audience's attention. Of course, what cannot be ignored in the short film is the use of long shots. A lot of long shot language increases the authenticity of the film, and even looking at it will make you think: "Is this a documentary?" But the strong vitality of the red balloon strikes again. Breaking this idea, against the background of the cool tone in the first half of the film, the red of the red balloon is fully highlighted, and the suppressed presumptuousness is even more striking. In the second half, with the fierce competition for balloons, the tone of the film is getting warmer and warmer. At the end of the film, it can be clearly contrasted that the sky has changed from gray to clear and bright.
The details of the director's portrayal in the film cannot be ignored either. There is a section in the film where the little boy took a red balloon to the grocery market. The little boy stopped because of a picture of a little girl, which not only paved the way for the appearance of the little girl, but also set off the little boy's inner feelings for friendship. Desire, at the same time, the red balloon behind the little boy became curious about the mirror. The red balloon looked at himself in the mirror as alone as the boy, which deepened the relationship with the boy. When the red balloon was snatched for the first time, one of the many children who threw stones at the balloon raised a slingshot to hint at the ultimate fate of the red balloon...
There are comments that the little boy didn't take a second look at the broken red balloon after being taken away by all the balloons. It's a pity, but I don't think so. Not looking at it means that the little boy is a child, just a child. When he was carried into the air by many balloons, I thought that the broken balloon was lying on the ground, looking at the boy in the sky and said silently: "This is the last gift I can give you, do you like it? ?"
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