Although it is only eight and a half minutes, I can't remember every picture in my heart, but the feeling and the warmth and sadness flowing all the time in the picture will never be forgotten, remember the warm yellow, freehand and very rich The contagious picture, I remember the soothing and sad soundtrack, I remember the nostalgia for my father when he left, and my daughter's lifelong longing and longing for my father, I still remember the solitary birds that appear in the picture from time to time, and the clouds slowly drifting across the sky. . I still remember how it touched us in the dark, and the long applause that broke out in the audience when the young daughter and the returning father hugged each other at the end. That's it - an animated short called "Father and Daughter," which won the Best Animated Short Film at the 73rd Academy Awards.
The film begins with an unexplained parting.
In the beginning, it was a set of erratic clouds. Under the clouds, the father and daughter rode their bikes to the seaside in the dusky evening. Simple to the extreme, the picture is calmly stated, just like the calm flow of time. The trees on the embankment were high and high, and seabirds circled on their tops. Father stopped and leaned his cart against a tree. The little girl also jumped out of her car and leaned the car against the tree like her father did. Father raised his head and looked at the sea leading to the horizon. The daughter was still very young, and all she looked up and saw was her father. The father walked down the embankment to the seaside, still reluctant to part with his daughter, turned around and ran up to lift his daughter up, hugging him affectionately as usual. But the intention to leave has been decided, and the daughter just stood on the shore watching her father's boat row farther and farther. The daughter also seemed to know that the facts could not be changed, and slowly left on a small bicycle. From then on began a lifelong watch.
The daughter came to the beach again and looked into the distance, but apart from the endless sea, only the bicycle parked under the tree when the father left was still there.
The leaves grow rapidly with the wind. The daughter has also become a slim little girl. Against the strong wind, she came to the beach and looked in the direction of her father's departure. The only trace left was the bicycle under the tree.
It was raining, and the daughter was wearing a blue dress (this is the only bright color in the whole film), and came to the beach. At this time, the father's bicycle disappeared, leaving only the empty sea facing her.
The film seems to have completed a paragraph in this group of shots, because the daughter all went back in the direction where she came. Maybe the director wants to tell us that life is moving forward, and there are many things that we can't change, so let's try to accept it.
What follows is a happy and ordinary life that everyone will experience.
The girl and her friends passed by on a bicycle, maybe on the way from school, maybe they went on an outing. When the friends rode forward happily, the girl stopped by the tree and looked at the distance quietly, but in the distance, except for There is still nothing in the distance. The partner in front found the girl who was left behind and waved to her to urge her to hurry forward. The girl withdrew her gaze and rode forward, and the wheels turned around a tree shadow like a zebra crossing.
Girl sits on her boyfriend's back seat. Hooked his feet against her boyfriend's back. When passing by the seaside, the girl didn't turn her head to look at the sea in the distance, and let her boyfriend take her forward. The
girl (it should be said that she was a woman) already had a pair of children and came to the beach with her husband to play. When the husband led the two children down to the beach, the girl stood on the embankment, where her father and her parted, and looked into the distance.
It's winter. The girl is middle-aged. The girl picked up her bicycle and came to the beach alone, her eyes were white, and she could see as far as the eye could see. I don't know if there is water under the snow or not? Maybe snow is the boundary between the two substances. When it is warmer, it becomes water, and when it is colder, it becomes ice.
The girl looks old. When a little girl hurried past her, the girl could not stabilize the handlebars. This is the girl's first time to go down to the shore. I don't know when the former ocean has become endless weeds.
The girl could no longer ride the car, and pushed the car to the beach. Although he was reeling, the wheels kept moving forward. When they got to the shore, when they parked the car and turned to go down, the car fell without wind. The girl turned around to help it, but it fell again due to lack of strength. Then she supported the car with all her strength, and just turned around and left, the car fell again. . The girl turned her head and looked at it, but continued to walk, as if leaving all her worries behind.
Going down to the former waterside, without hesitation, I walked straight into the ocean that is now made up of weeds. Just like her father back then, she just walked forward... I don't know how far she had gone, and the girl came to a small open space. In the center was a boat that was half-buried in the dirt - her father's boat. The girl looked at it blankly, touched the side of the boat, and remembered what her father looked like when she left. The girl went to the belly of the boat and lay down gently, just like when she was snuggled in her father's arms when she was a child. The warm sunlight was shining on her like her father's eyes. "Sleep," she heard her father say. In a trance, the girl seemed to feel the breath of her father, yes, that was her father! She saw her father returning from afar, and the girl ran in the direction of her father. As she ran, the youth that had flowed from the girl came back, her hunched back straightened up, her staggering steps became light and fast, her head full of white hair. The hair has turned into thousands of blue silk again, and the girl has become a slim cardamom girl again, standing in front of her father. Father was still as stalwart as when he left. They looked at each other and looked at each other. They were both familiar and unfamiliar. When what they were thinking about really appeared in front of them, people were often timid. The girl continued to run forward, and when she was only one step away from her father, the accumulated emotions finally burst out - the father and daughter hugged tightly, and the film came to a climax and stopped abruptly.
The emotion of the film has always been repressed, and the water is long and flowing. Until the last gushing out, no one can resist it. No matter how beautiful and beautiful it is, it is no match for Homecoming, but the emotion of this loved one is in the fleeting years. Spread like water.
The faint wind blows the faint cloud, and the faint cloud changes its appearance. Time slips away inadvertently, and life goes on silently in time, although there are many times when we are so indifferent. Willing. Our lives and even our lives are constantly searching like a girl. Everyone has something they are looking for. Some people are so persistent, and some people are so silent.
The film is always accompanied by a reincarnation-like allegory, full of an artistic conception of oriental philosophy, which may be the result of the author's interest not only in oriental painting and calligraphy. It's like the rotation of the wheel that always appears is a metaphor for the growth of life and the change of the seasons. All the characters appear with the wheel, and there is a very interesting detail - that is, the girl who met her on the road when she was young The old man, and when she is getting older and even getting older, the passers-by who meet her are getting younger and younger, like two rivers flowing in opposite directions, they always meet in the opposite direction. As if no one can escape the turning of the wheel of time, day after day, season after season, year after year, it is the galloping arrow of time that never looks back. The girl is getting old on the bicycle, but the coast is still the coast, the big tree is still the row of big trees, the distance is still the distance, and the yearning is still the yearning.
Another important character that appears in the film is water, calm and pure water. Water is symbolized on many levels. It is sensual, calm, and like a mirror, it can illuminate people's hearts. Water is perceptual and rational, just like a mirror, which actually reflects the viewer's heart. In the film, there are often lonely birds, intertwined trees, and a single cloud in the sky. All these symbolic symbols appear repeatedly, adding to the bleakness, all of which show the girl's emotional loneliness and helplessness.
When finally, the little girl who had become an old woman found her father's boat and hunched down like a kitten, I could feel her peace and reassurance in front of the screen. That was her spiritual home. found it. Immediately, the heat in my heart gushed up. At the end, the surreal ending made her run back to the past and run to her father, which was a moving mess. As mentioned earlier, no one can resist the emotions that spew out after such repression. Just like a snow mountain that has accumulated for thousands of years collapsed in an instant, the feeling is like a thousand miles away, like a broken bamboo.
May children all over the world cherish every day their parents are by their side. . . . . . .
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