When Doraemon knew that he was about to part with Nobita, he gave Nobita a precise overview: "He is reckless, stupid, tired of learning, cowardly, lazy, slow, unable to exercise, and courageous. Small, confused, unreliable, hates trouble, useless, has a bad memory, is a good old man, likes to show off, loves to act like a spoiled child." But in fact, the film could not express so many of Nobita's faults in the previous 40 minutes. Come out, and we know that the text of Doraemon is to use the story of Nobi Nobita, who is a combination of various disadvantages and can no longer be ordinary, to reflect Doraemon's loyalty, reliability, and inseparability as a helper. abandoned. The information behind is what we got from watching Doraemon's comics and animations before, and it is something imprinted in our childhood memories. In fact, the film borrows such a huge amount of prior knowledge from the audience to create a feeling of being lost and found.
Therefore, in just one movie time, it can't perfectly show the "bad" of Nobita, so it can't show the "good" of Doraemon. The film is doing a lot of work to describe the relationship between Nobita and Shizuka, but in the end it ends up with the recovery of Doraemon, although it uses a clever way - the relationship with Shizuka It involves Nobita's sense of happiness, and happiness is the key to Doraemon's presence or absence - but obviously this kind of plot construction is putting the cart before the horse. Because Nobita's happiness really only comes from whether he is married to Shizuka, shouldn't his happiness come from having a friend like Doraemon? If he saw the short-lived happiness in his marriage with Shizuka in the future, didn't he fall into a greater misfortune when he learned that he would lose Doraemon because of it? Why can't Doraemon catch such misfortune and stay by Nobita's side? So, the plot of the film is actually full of loopholes.
So my tears appeared in the dialogue between Shizuka and her father, or more precisely, when Shizuka's father told Shizuka that your birth was the greatest gift in my life. I watched them with blurry eyes. The whole episode of walking in the backyard pond under the stars, because I put myself in my father's shoes to understand the thoughts of this father, and by the way recalled a lot of things about myself and my father; on the other hand, for the final reappearance of Doraemon , I have a slight sense of jumping out, because I know that in fact, you did not put any effort into describing the emotional exchange between Doraemon and Nobita. How can you expect me to be particularly moved by such an ending?
In addition, for me, who has watched the Doraemon TV animation several times, I find many innovative settings in this film a bit difficult to accept.
The first is the character setting of Nobita. Compared with comics and TV animations, this person who also wears yellow clothes is simply not Nobi Nobita. The distance between his glasses and his hair has been widened, and most importantly, Nobita's Xiaodou eyes have been changed to large, watery eyes. Previously, all the whiteness around Nobita's eyes was due to glasses, and the setting of the film is that his eyes have white space and a circle of transparent glasses outside. The result of this is that Nobita, who took off his glasses, is still so bright, which is obviously contrary to the original intention of the original work - Nobita is almost useless, even in appearance, it is ordinary and even slightly ugly.
The three-dimensional Nobita makes this character lose the sense of interest in the simple outline of the comics, turning it into a humanoid plasticine. A simple characterization is that Nobita laughs like this in 3D movies, and whether it's comics or TV animations, when Nobita's mouth is expressed with lines, the small hook that often appears on the mouth is really ecstasy. It's too catchy, it's too funny, and in the movie, the sense of line has completely disappeared.
The second is a description of Nobita's family and family. I don't know why the film changed the sliding door of Nobita's room into a knob switch door, and the wooden texture on the door is clearly visible, which is very different from the simple Japanese style in comics and TV animations. I still don't know why Nobita's mother wears such a patterned dress. No matter in the comics or animation, Nobita's mother is almost always a pink dress, which is the same as the main color of Shizuka's clothes. This is by no means a coincidence, but there is some kind of hint. And the filming of the three-dimensional film really has money, and even "bought" a dazzling new dress for Nobita's mother.
The third is the description of the details of the scene. The advantage of 3D animation is that it can show very small details in the scene. For example, the pattern of the tatami in Nobita's house, the pattern on the door, the tree and its fruit in the courtyard of other families on the street, etc. On the surface, the details make the film more realistic, but in my opinion, it has lost the beauty of simplicity brought by the Doraemon manga and TV animation. What's wrong with tatami being a white rectangle? Too many details actually distract the audience's attention from the central character, and part of their energy is forced to stay on the so-called details that are not useful for the advancement of the main line and emotional advancement.
Of course, again, I still cried, because after all, this is Doraemon, and this is an amazing, timeless, and in my opinion the best manga in Japanese anime history. Its textual value still far exceeds the value of the film. The emotional investment that the movie evokes from the audience's memory awakening is still far more than the audience's emotional investment in the movie itself. Therefore, I also want to take this opportunity to talk about some understanding of the text of Doraemon itself.
First, typographically, this is a story about a helper. It has the same type as "Super Gate Dog", that is, the protagonist is weak, but has an unusually loyal and capable helper. The main contradiction of the film is how the protagonist causes trouble and how the helper helps and cleans up the mess. Therefore, from the perspective of genre films, its reference is very high.
Secondly, Doraemon's props are essentially the embodiment of human desires. It is because people have the desire to fly to the sky, so there are bamboo dragonflies; it is because people have the desire to see their future self, so there is a time machine. The setting of each prop of Doraemon corresponds to the desires of people, and many of them correspond to the needs of human nature, so it can be so eternal, so touching the hearts of generations, so that the audience yearns for it. have. This is fundamentally different from the various magical props used by the village chief of Slow Yangyang and Big Big Wolf in "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf". The latter's props are just to fight each other, and there is no human desire in them.
Third, is Nobita a worthless person after all? In my opinion, not only is he not, but he is quite a smart person (except for the various caring and sharing hearts that he has deliberately described in the comics), but his intelligence is not reflected in his academic performance. For every prop that Doraemon came up with, he can at least come up with more than three ways to play creatively. It was he who came up with the idea of using an imaging mirror for advertising. This brain should really be a CEO!
Fourth, it is actually a very unfair thing for Nobita to have Doraemon. Maybe some people will say, Nobita is so stupid, there should be a helper, in fact, relying on props to improve a person's competitiveness is very unfair. Take the time machine as an example, although Doraemon's text pays special attention to the conservative view that the future cannot be changed by a time machine, we still find that only Nobita (and his immediate descendants) have ridden the time machine. Doraemon has so many props, and some are also shared with Qiangfu, Shizuka, and Fat Tiger, but the time machine never shares them. In other words, only Nobita has the ability to see the past and the future. This is unfair to other people who live their lives with duty.
Perhaps, just like the film uses a lie prop to fulfill a desire at the end, but that may really just be a story that happened on April Fool's Day. After all, we still have to return to reality, and it may be more real to be moved by family affection than to be moved by Doraemon's return.
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