Live hard! asshole!

Curtis 2022-04-19 09:02:47

This is a movie that takes the tension of animation to the extreme, but I don't want to talk about dazzling colors and wild imagination.

In my opinion, the belly of a whale is a prison of the soul, an imaginary daydream of escapism: in this dream, Mi can swim to the fullest with the dream of an athlete in mind, without thinking about being eliminated by too large breasts The reality; my sister can dance to her heart's content without being forced to give up by the pressure of life... The belly of a whale is a desperate situation. People always want to do what they really want to do when they are in a desperate situation. This is the greatest tragedy of human beings.

I just want to talk about the idea of ​​making a movie that is astonishing - Xixiang said to the other three the reason why they have to escape from the belly of a whale even though there are many kinds of things in the outside world: "There are thousands of worlds outside, and there are many people living different lives. Life. There are unbelievably good and bad people, a world created by people who are completely different from each other! Success or failure, good or bad, it doesn't matter! I want to go back to that world! Because I know that even if I don't have talent, even if I'm very poor and miserable, but I want to create my own life with my own hands! Do I die here, or take a chance? Use our strength to try to surpass?!"

At the end of the film, it takes 5 minutes to draw a dazzling world of flowers, looking at this complex and beautiful world from the perspective of God. There are infinite possibilities in life, and there are infinite choices in life, regardless of whether it is good or bad, just based on preferences! At the end, "this story has never ended" director Yuasa Masaki's subtext is: Okay! I made my point! Next, go and live your life hard!

Thank you for this movie! Thank you, Masaaki Yuasa!

Live hard! asshole!







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  • Coby 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    100 points! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  • Ericka 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    Yuasa Masaki's debut animation feature is crazy and unbridled, as if he's drank a hallucinogen. sexual expression. The first half still basically follows the classical narrative context, while the second half becomes more and more stream-of-consciousness and postmodern, and the high-speed montage of climax and ending is even more dazzling. The style of painting is also crazy, influenced by Pop Art, and Yves Klein's [anthropometric] series of works are also obviously paid tribute. However, superb technology and strong stylization do not mean that they are good enough - animation works are already innately illusory, and when superimposed on extreme or even uncontrolled fantasy and incoherent reality, does it exceed a certain limit, so that people can Numb and boring? After all, a film based on photography based on realistic records, expressing fantasy, dream and stream of consciousness is more shocking, and the fusion of reality and fantasy is the most powerful, illusory quadratic and excessive audio-visual bombardment, easy backfires. (8.0/10)

Mind Game quotes

  • Nishi: This roller-coaster you're trying to stop is a genuine Angel Express. And I can see you moved to tears as you watch that mystic angel spread its wings and disappear into the sky. OK?

    Yakuza boss: The fuck?

  • Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.

    Yakuza boss: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Yan: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Yan: The Yakuzas'll come after us!

    Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!