The film "Father and Daughter" is an 8-minute animated short film directed by Dutch director Michael Dudewitt. I never thought that I could gain so much insight in an animated short film without a single line. Every time I watch it, I will burst into tears, and every time I watch it, I will gain a different insight. The following is my simple understanding of this film. understand. The music in the film is like a link, connecting some scattered and jumping shots, crossing the boundaries of time and space.
The music in "Father and Daughter" plays this role very well. As the music that runs through the whole film, it connects the heroine's childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age. The ups and downs of the music also make the audience better Understand the time and space changes in the film and the progression of emotions. I divided the music into four sections. The first section is the melodious and melodious tone and brisk rhythm of the accordion at the beginning of the film. We saw the father and his daughter riding a bicycle slowly, a warm picture of a father taking his daughter on a trip The second paragraph is about the music that the daughter still can't understand after the father left, the slow and sad rhythm and the ambient sound of wind and rain reflect the daughter's deep yearning for her father; The third paragraph is that the daughter understands the meaning of her father's departure. At this time, the music has the depth of the trumpet and the lightness of the piano. In addition to sadness and thoughts, the daughter also has a hopeful state of mind for the future. In this process, we see her making friends, I got married and had children, but I still often came to the lake where my father left to look, thinking of my father all the time; the fourth paragraph is the process of my daughter's old age and her reunion with her father after death. The music of this process was originally the accordion. Later, when he reunited with his father, the piano was brisk. After a long wait, the father and daughter finally embraced each other again. The daughter's longing and loneliness during the waiting process was expressed through the long accordion, and the joy of reuniting with her father was expressed through the light rhythm of the piano. Let the audience and their daughter feel the joy together. Good movie music is music that cannot be heard. Of course, it's not that I can't hear it, but that the music reflects the artistic conception and charm of the film itself very well, and has become a part of the film. In the changes in the music in this film, we have seen the growth of our daughter and the time. The passage of time, the change of seasons, there are no subtitles or next to tell us what year and month it is now, and there are no lines to tell my daughter's thoughts, but as an audience, I can realize the passage of time and feel the state of mind of the protagonist. It is the role of good film music, which sets the emotional tone and enhances the artistic charm of the film.
An ordinary object in a movie shot, after careful arrangement by the director, changes from its own use value or economic value to an artistic image with a unique role in the movie. The lake in the film, under the ingenious design of the director, is endowed with the meaning of symbolizing life. While the daughter is waiting, the lake is getting more and more dry, just like the remaining value of her daughter's life. When the lake is dry, the daughter will grow old and die. , and at the end of her life, she saw her father who was thinking day and night, which further shows that her daughter has never stopped missing her father in the long river of time. At the same time, the lake also has the meaning of the bridge of helplessness. The father rowed the boat farther and farther from the shore, which is similar to Mr. Yang Jiang's description of the scene when Qian Zhongshu reaches the end of his life in "The Three of Us". How to portray a safe life with a father's protection? The director used bicycles one big and one small. When the father was there, the girl could ride a small bicycle that fits her height smoothly. The slopes encountered were not so steep, because everything went smoothly with her father. When the father left, The daughter had to ride a bicycle higher than herself, and the slope began to become steeper. Several times, the daughter almost couldn't get up. After the father left, the surrounding scenery became desolate. The director vividly portrayed the two objects in the film to the audience. The two objects surpassed their own value and played a poetic artistic role in the film, making the film concise but profound in meaning. What moved me the most in the film was the scene where the father and daughter said goodbye by the lake. The film is an animation, and neither the daughter nor the father's facial features were depicted in detail, but in this scene I saw the father's reluctance. The helplessness of having to leave, the innocence of my daughter, and I still don't understand what the father's departure means. After watching this scene repeatedly, I found that it was because in the way of characterization, the director used actions to help the characters to be completed, and the father The action with his daughter made the parting emotions of this scene strong. The father hugged his daughter hard twice. When he was about to get on the boat, he suddenly rushed ashore and held his daughter for a circle. This action of the father obviously did not fit his character. Visually, when he appeared on the stage in the early stage, he gave everyone a calm feeling. Obviously, his sudden rush to the shore was compared with the previous one, and it also told the audience that this parting was different from the usual long-distance trip, and the daughter thought it was Playing with his father and opening his arms, this is a very subtle but very character-like action. These actions create a great and secure father and a naive and romantic daughter who does not understand death, and create an adult when death comes. With the status of children, the theme of the film is further clarified.
Regarding the theme of the film, what I understand is fatherhood, growth, and death. Every family has a different way of getting along. Some of them get along with their fathers very seriously. They are like friends, and the love they feel is different. But the same thing is that as long as our father is there, we are still children, and as long as our father is uphill The road is no longer steep, and the wind is always gentle. In the film, the girl stopped by the lake and looked at it nine times in total. These nine times were throughout her life and also reflected her growth. I divided her into four stages. The first stage is that girls come first. The second time she came to the lake with her father was when she faced death for the first time but didn't understand it; the second stage was her journey from childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. At this time, she already understood that her father's departure was death; The third stage is that the daughter is no longer alone, she will come to the lake with friends, husband, and children, and she has already understood that the father will not come back, but she will stop and look every time; the fourth stage is the daughter She was also old, and it was her turn to face death, and to meet her father again after her death. These four stages describe the process in which the daughter never understands death, understands death, and then faces death by herself. It also depicts the daughter's thoughts about him after the father leaves. During this process, the daughter will wait by the lake regardless of the wind and rain. Even if she knows that her father will not come back, she will still wait by the lake regularly. After she has friends, lovers, and children of her own, she will still come to the lake. Her father is like a big tree to shelter her from the wind and rain, and she is also like a big tree. The same is in the bottom of my heart.
I want to start another paragraph about death because I have been living in fear of death almost every day for the past two years. A long time ago I saw a sentence on the Internet: What China lacks most now are two kinds of education: sex education and death education. Looking back on my upbringing, my parents avoided and escaped when faced with these two types of education. I grew up with my grandmother. The first time I faced death was when I was six or seven years old when I went with my grandmother to the village funeral banquet. , I was curious about what he looked like, so I squatted down to see clearly, and then I was carried out of the room by my grandmother. I asked my grandmother what happened to that person, and my grandmother said that he fell asleep. Later, when I grew up and started to go to school, I learned about life, old age, sickness and death, and I also knew that my old grandmother would die. At that time, I understood death to be always asleep. I thought that if my grandmother was always asleep, I would never be able to talk to her again. , I was very sad that I could no longer eat the food she made. I prayed to the Bodhisattva every day not to let my grandmother die. At that time, I was eleven years old. I clearly remember that I really woke up every morning and before going to bed at night. I knelt on the bed and looked out the window and looked at the sky hoping that the Buddha would hear my prayers. The year before last, my grandmother passed away. I was nineteen years old. I still didn’t understand what death was. I only knew that I would never see my grandmother again. I only knew that from that day on, I started to have frequent nightmares. I dreamed that my parents died and my sister died. For the first half year, I couldn't hear the words "grandmother" and "grandmother". No matter where I heard it or saw it, I would burst into tears. Later, I couldn't hear the word "death". I didn't dare to read it during the epidemic. News, for fear of seeing an increase in the number of deaths, for fear of seeing someone leave forever like my grandmother. In the past six months, I have begun to understand why I am afraid and escape. Except for the death of my grandmother, I will never see her again. It is because I understand that death is now closer to my parents. When I faced death alone, I was afraid of my loved ones leaving, afraid of myself leaving, afraid that I could not remember their faces after too long, and afraid that I would be forgotten. When I saw the daughter in the film standing by the lake and looking out, I wondered what she was thinking about. Every time I go home, I stare at my grandmother’s reclining chair in a daze. From the first time I looked at it, I started to cry, to silently weeping and replaying the picture of getting along with my grandma in my mind; to slowly accepting my grandmother’s departure but she It is still alive in my heart; now I have let go, I don't have to indulge in the grief of leaving, and the days of living with my grandmother are happy, and I must start to cherish the time I spend with my parents and friends. And after I wrote these words, I seem to understand what the girls in the film are thinking, child I didn’t understand death when I was young, I understood death when I was young, I accepted my father’s death when I was a teenager, and lived with the memories of my father. I understood death when I was an adult, and I faced death when I was old. Now I have begun to try to understand death slowly. , I will learn to accept like the daughter in the film, accept the death of my parents, my own death. Death is part of growing up, everyone will leave, and new people will come, and the love left between us will remain the same.
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