"The Box Monster" has a familiar perception, and in the stop-motion animation, you can see a metaphorical mockery of social criticism. It is similar to the Chinese "Afanti's Story", but it is just now. Not only have we stopped, stop-motion animations like ink-and-wash animations have long since disappeared in China, but this most primitive film animation technique is still blooming with our own unique charm.
Today, when 3D animation technology is becoming more and more mature, it takes a lot of time and energy to produce stop-motion animations of scenes and characters. At first glance, it may seem so laborious and thankless, but just like the Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki insists on hand-painted animation and gives him a link. The characters are extremely vivid and demanding, and Lycra Animation Studio is also the adherent of the 100-year stop-motion animation dream maker. When a scene of truly well-made character background vivid and elegant stop-motion animation is dedicated to the screen, the unique and realistic look really depends on Computer 3D animation production is incomparable. The slightly dark but delicate texture imaging of the Victorian period is like a declining but elegant wise man. In contrast, today, Disney, Pixar and other big names are compared to who can be cute Even more cute to welcome the audience, "Box Monster" still sticks to the stop-motion animation, telling an enlightening and humorous fable to the audience.
In the movie, the timid, kind and docile box monsters are portrayed as evil man-eaters by ambitious politicians. When rumors cover up the truth, they are even arranged into a stage play. The fear of the unknown makes people full of box monsters. Disgust and hatred, although the rumors are limited to the wise, the public is often unable to stand alone in the face of their strong relationships, and those in power only care about their so-called "noble" white hats and decent cheese life, and their right and wrong about the truth of the incident. Quzhi is even more insignificant. When you watch it as an American movie, you will find that the large number of box monsters are like black slaves who were once oppressed. He can not only awaken the sense of resistance of the box monsters at the moment of crisis, but also melt the ice of people's misunderstanding of the box monsters. The metaphors well-known in this animation not only make children happy, but also mock the ignorance of racial discrimination. The prejudice against social class awakens people's creed of freedom and fairness.
If the meaning of the movie itself is the highlight of the film, then the success and failure of Xiao He are also in Xiao He. As a child's animation, the film obviously fails to fully consider the child's ability to accept, the love is rendered in a hurry, and the affection between father and son The rush of the movie makes the film emotionally comprehensive but difficult to move. It focuses too much on the manifestation of various metaphors, but it fails to create enough to capture the children’s eyeballs. The limit of stop-motion animation also makes it difficult to have that in 3D animation. Stunning visual view, but all of this is just the slight flaw of the film as a masterpiece, and it is not enough to conceal the true nature of the precious jade.
The fixed frame is beautiful, and the fable is respected. When the final egg is drawn, the hardships of the stop-motion animation can not help but awe, and those full of positive energy fables make "Box Monster" more than just a general work of appearance.
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