I was honored to be drawn by bilibili before and participated in the viewing party of "I Miss Chidiao Your Pancreas". After watching it, I have a lot of thoughts. Let’s briefly talk about my own views from two aspects. (The following content is suspected of spoilers, those who intend to avoid it, and the author has not seen the original work, just as an animation party, to talk about the viewing experience of this theatrical version)
First of all, the picture, the picture of this work is very colorful, when I first watched it in the cinema, I had a sense of surprise. I thought about it carefully. There are two main reasons. First, the character painting is very natural, especially in the action of the characters. The story will definitely increase the audience's recognition. Second, the paintings of backgrounds and objects are also very good. You can compare the pancreas with some of Xin Haicheng's works, and you will find that they are also very high-quality realism paintings, and the pancreas still has its own characteristics. Compared with Makoto Shinkai's extremely rich light and shadow rendering and saturation, as well as some deliberate painting-like processing, the overall painting of the pancreas is more peaceful and realistic, and the effect of color and light and shadow is not so strong. The advantage of this is that the audience's focus can be better focused on the characters. At the same time, the pancreas painting also has some bright spots. There are mainly two places that make people more impressive, one is the fireworks, and the other is the end of the diary. Needless to say, the handling of fireworks has a very good contrast to the poetic and romantic atmosphere, and the dreaminess created is also in place. At the end of the diary, the treatment is more daring, using a fairy tale-like treatment like crayon drawing, I can feel the intention of the producer, but it is a matter of expressing whether the effect is better. .
Then, let's talk about the plot,
I believe this part is also the place where everyone is more controversial. I think the main reason is this: the death of the heroine - that is, the way of Ying Liang's death. Why do you say that? Because of the way of Ying Liang's death, with the randomness and unpredictability of some cut movies, and the maliciousness and truth of some crime movies, although there have been some hints and foreshadowing, although it is not completely unacceptable, but when watching the movie, I feel in my heart. There's always going to be that kind of unhappiness.
why? The reason is simple - because it's not romantic enough.
And it's not only unromantic, it destroys almost all the romance created earlier in the film. This is really a failure in the handling of the plot. I thought the same thing at the beginning of the movie. With the mentality of continuing to watch it, I still watched the whole film very seriously. After watching it, the overall feeling was not as bad as I imagined, but it was still a little weird. The movie, is it bad? It doesn't seem to be. Say it's excellent? Can't seem to talk about it.
I thought about it for a long time, until I suddenly figured out a problem, and then I understood why.
That is, how should we view the pancreas film?
If you look at it purely as a love movie, the pancreas is indeed unqualified.
The overall look and feel of the pancreas is not bad, and it can even be said to be very good, but there will always be a sense of incompleteness after reading it. The reason is that the death of Ying Liang is too unromantic in the whole work. It didn't make viewers wait for the climax they wanted to see. According to the routine of traditional love chapters, it should be that the hero and heroine will have a life-and-death love before the deadline, and then the screenwriter will come back with a tearful sensation.
But the pancreas did not, it directly killed the heroine in an almost random way at an unexpected point in time. You could say it's real, but this realness, which might be fine in a crime movie, is kind of unnecessary in a romance movie because -- it's not romantic enough. This is not to say that traditional routines cannot be broken, but the relationship between the male and female protagonists should be sublimated. However, the plot of the pancreas is true, and the feelings have not yet sublimated to the highest point. It can even be said that the preparations have just been completed. The audience is excitedly waiting for the curtain of sublimation feelings to be lifted, and is ready to be emotionally tortured to tears. , as a result, the slap of the screenwriter "pia" tells you that the story is over.
? ? ? ? ? That feeling is as if someone fed you a candy, only to slap you the next second and make you vomit. feeling bad! And this uncomfortable feeling is completely different from that romantic life-and-death feeling. The producer doesn't even give you a chance to get a stomachache. Even though Haruki's diary is used to make up for the romance in the second half of the work, I feel that there is no way to make up for that emotion. The plot gives the impression that the author wants to break the routine, but the breaking is not brilliant, and it is not satisfactory.
So is the pancreas really such a failure in the handling of the plot at this point? I thought so too at first, until I mulled over the ending and asked myself a question?
What if you look at it from a different angle?
From the point of view of only one protagonist in this work? That is to say, if you don't look at this work as a love story between the hero and heroine, but as a story of one person's "life" and "death" saving another person?
The answer was different. Why do many of us feel weird when watching this show?
Because we watched this animation as a movie with male and female protagonists, but the love line as an open line was suddenly broken in the middle, the heroine left the scene directly, and the hero's rescue was turned as a hidden line instead. It became a bright line to continue.
It can be said that the follow-up stories have nothing to do with the heroine Ying Liang. Even if she appears a lot in the chapters of memory, she still can't change it. In fact, she has cut off contact with reality.
But, from a causal point of view, is this also true?
I thought of a sentence from "Norwegian Wood": Death is not the opposite of life, but eternal as a part of life.
If the second half of the theatrical version really said anything, I think this sentence is really no longer suitable to describe it.
So when we look at it from a different angle, not as a pure love animation, but as a story about an autistic boy being "redeemed", it seems that everything becomes more logical.
The first half of the animation is about the redemption of the male protagonist by Ying Liang's life, and the second half is about the redemption of the male protagonist by the death of Ying Liang. Then Ying Liang's abrupt death has become more understandable, because the focus of the animation is not this part, it is an interception in terms of time and severity. At the same time, this sense of reality of death that should not be found in romantic films is more acceptable. In the same way, love has not been sublimated enough, and it has not reached the end of life and death, and the end of tears has become understandable. Because the real focus of the story is not on love itself, but on this life and death, the impact of this emotion on the dead and on the living.
The real protagonist of the story is indeed only Haruki, and the entire work is expressed and recorded from his perspective. And Haruki was indeed changed a lot by Ying Liang, both during her life and after her death. Death is not the opposite of life, but eternal as a part of life. When Ying Liang was alive, her warmth and sunshine melted Haruki's self-isolation; after Ying Liang's death, her figure and soul will also exist in Haruki's heart, and her "death" will serve as Haruki" part of eternity. So how Ying Liang's life ended is no longer worthy of controversy, because from that moment on, no matter how Ying Liang died, her "life" would be destined to continue on Haruki.
When I figured this out, my evaluation of the film changed drastically. In my eyes, it's beyond the confines of traditional romance. In other words, the relationship between Yingliang and Haruki was very ambiguous. You can call it love, because they are in the most ambiguous stage of their relationship; you can also call it not love, because they have never established a relationship. , Friendship is above, lovers are not full.
Can we really call them a couple? I don't think so. Certainty and uncertainty are two different things. Can we describe them simply as unfulfilled lovers? I don't think so, because the relationship between them has actually transcended this point, and the bond between them even surpasses that of many ordinary couples, which is related to the secrets they share. So what is their relationship?
Very simple, I want to eat the relationship of your pancreas.
In fact, at the beginning of the film, I was noncommittal about the heroine's sudden intrusion into the male lead's world. Because this beautiful girl took the initiative to come to you, of course it is a happy thing. But in the same way, Yingliang's behavior is also very selfish, because she knows that she will die in the near future, so when she dies, all the grief and follow-up need to be borne by the living person, and the one who needs to bear the burden These people are Haruki who was chosen by her.
Because Haruki is the one who can take her illness lightly, and because Haruki is the relative stranger to her, she can reveal her truth to him so naturally.
From the point of view of the starting point, it is true, but from the point of view of the result? It seems that Haruki has received far more things than Sakura Liang. Because even though Ying Liang's starting point was selfish, in the process, everything she paid was selfless. It was all this selfishness and selflessness that made Haruki's change in the future. So I like a sentence in the film: all the results are caused by our own choices, but that is also our own choices. Because Haruki, who chose to accept all of this, also made his own choice, and in the end bears the consequences of his choice.
It reminds me of a sentence written by Cao Wenxuan in "The Straw House": "Things other than life and death are not big events."
Last year, "The Oath of Morning Flowers and Evening" showed us life and death and family affection from a very strange angle.
This year, there is "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" to express life, death and feelings from another angle.
As a romance film, "I Want to Eat Your Pancreas" is flawed, but I don't intend to regard the pancreas as a purely emotional film, and the theme it expresses goes beyond the romance itself. The "death" that has passed away and the "life" that continues, from this point of view, the expectations that the pancreas brings to me are beyond.
The pancreas is not romantic, but rather sad and heavy. Like I said, it's not love that gets sublimated in the end, it's—
Death is not the opposite of life, but eternal as a part of life.
As mentioned at the beginning of the movie, legend has it that when one eats another's organs, the other's soul is immortalized in his body.
Although Haruki didn't eat Ying Liang's pancreas in the end, Ying Liang's soul had long since existed as a part of his life unknowingly.
The above are just the shallow remarks made by the author, as a non-professional animation party, on the overall performance of the film. They only represent my personal opinions and hope to be helpful to everyone's viewing of the film.
Finally, I wish you all a happy viewing!
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