For any animated story that has shaped a new world, the simplest criterion is whether it can arouse your desire to go to that world, and whether it makes you feel like "if I were in that world" and "if I were the protagonist of the film" Lenovo. In this sense, the film is clearly thin.
It's a world where life and death rest on lip service. When Chun turned into a begonia flower to hold up the world, we were moved by her devotion. Who knew that she would be resurrected in another place in the next second. When the spirit woman said to herself, "For your resurrection, if you want to thank the person who exchanged your lifespan," we were just about to feel sorry for Qiu's disappearance, but who knew that he would be in the middle of the sea in the next second Appeared. Anyone can die, dead can be resurrected, and the price is not unforgettable.
This is a world without memories. Although the film has been using narration to show an atmosphere of memories, Chun, who is more than 100 years old, did not appear. Is she and Kun doing well? Is she living happily as a new spiritual woman? Since there are none of these realities, this Such memories are meaningless. On the contrary, the film does not tell about some past events that should be recalled. For example, the beautiful love between Chun's grandfather and grandmother, the origins of the spirit mother and the rat mother, even the past events of Chun and Qiu when they were young, anything that can increase our recognition and expectation of this world, and any increase we have for the protagonist and friends. , family relationship understanding, cognitive memory are missing. In a world without memories, any seemingly fantastic setting has only symbolic meaning, but cannot be truly moving. Because all human emotions are accumulated in memory.
It's a world that lacks true rites of passage. There is no lack of solemnity and magic of rituals in the film. For example, Chun's coming-of-age ceremony at the beginning of the film is a major scene where the key is being shaped, and the process of Chun's going to the spiritual woman and the process of exchanging lives are also mysterious. ceremony. But did Tsubaki really become an adult through the ceremony? If the immortal world takes seven days to the human world and sees how the world under the influence of immortals works, it is regarded as a coming-of-age ceremony. At best, this kind of adulthood is a graduation ceremony of immortality. A real adult should be mentally mature, know how to love others, and know how to take responsibility. The film lacks a heavyweight statement about real adults.
This is a world overflowing with imagination but pale in human nature. Every frame of the film is beautiful, or more precisely, every scene in every frame is beautiful, and some scenes even give you the illusion that the footage isn’t big enough, that it’s not enough, and that you want to see more. But the excavation of human nature in the depths of the picture seems a little pale. Some stay on the mysterious taste, such as the spirit woman, who regards the mysterious and mysterious as the character; some stay on the small and fresh superficiality, such as the protagonist trio, if Qiu can make hatred because of love, there will be more contradictions and contradictions. The solution will be more moving; some remain on simple dogma, such as Chun's mother, the immortals in the ethnic group, etc., thousands of people have one side.
Kun is so big, I don't know how many thousands of miles away. It is a pity that this fish named Kun finally only grew into the size of a small whale, and did not become a big fish thousands of miles away. It missed the perfect contrast with the protagonist's small body to form a bigger and more shocking contrast. opportunity. The most important thing is that Kun, who has not really become a "big fish", will not experience more vicissitudes of life, and will not accumulate enough emotions, so that it will not be able to realize the qualitative change from fish to man. From the very beginning, I opposed Tsubaki's raising of Kun, and raised my lover as a pet. How can this setting increase the love connection between Tsubaki and Kun? It can only increase a kind of disordered emotion.
If I were in that world, I would look forward to Tsubaki, who came to the world for the first time to perform a coming-of-age ceremony. In addition to falling in love with the boy on the fishing boat at first sight, he also completed a rescue to the swaying boat in a storm, so that the boy later on was It is more logical for the sleepy Chun to rescue. I even expected Tsubaki to miss the seven-day limit and be forced to stay in the world to start a real forbidden love with the boy.
If I were in that world, I would look forward to the opposition between Chun and Qiu, because Spring and Autumn are two opposite seasons and cannot be integrated, but they are unified. This kind of opposition and unity is by no means as simple as "I treat you as a big brother".
If I were in that world, I would expect the impetus for the final solution of the collapse of the immortal world to come from the immortals breaking through the so-called taboos with the human world, breaking through the barriers to human beings, including prejudice, the shackles of love, and so on. It was the arrival of Kun that brought down the immortal world, but at the same time, it was the joint efforts of Kun and Chun that made the world more beautiful and harmonious. After all, everyone is a "big fish".
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