Coincidentally, I turned on the TV yesterday, and the homepage of the digital TV happened to be playing this film, and it was not long after it started. I didn't know what the content of the screen was, and I intuitively told me whose work it was. And the eDonkey just downloaded the day before yesterday, because LD has not seen this film, so the two of them huddled in the study, looking forward to the visual dessert brought by Master Hayao Miyazaki.
Hayao Miyazaki's style does not need to be compared or studied. At a glance at his use of color and grasp of form, you can roughly know that it is his work, and "Castle" is a very typical Hayao Miyazaki-style animation. At the beginning of the opening scene, Hisaishi let the soundtrack played by his swordsman play, and for a while, these two words, desolate and sad, popped into my mind. I always unconsciously overlap his works with "Spirited Away". Maybe the first one I came into contact with him was "Spirited Away". The so-called feeling of revisiting the old place is also trying to recall the slightest touches that Joe Hisaishi's background music brought me at that time. I like the vast grasslands and the snow-capped mountains in the distance written by Hayao Miyazaki. The grassland is always full of flowers, there is a small house, there is a chimney, there are steps to enter the entrance, or there is always a clear stream in front of the door, the sun is always generously sprinkled on the wooden furniture in the house, and the whole house is bright. The bright light illuminates all the colors very clearly, just like facing the sun, making people unable to open their eyes. This thick warmth and the coldness of the emptiness are intertwined, forming a special picture, pulling my heart and throwing it into the air, looking down at everything that happened from afar.
The seaside town in "Castle" is an atypical European town. Hayao Miyazaki seems to like to use such a blurred approach to depict a small world isolated from the world. Although it is a European style, it is still clearly revealed. Japanese painters' grasp of details and rendering of colors. I especially like the small courtyard where Sophie lived at the beginning. Later, Hall moved to this place. It has a small exquisite garden, and it is a bustling market town when you go out. The walls are light red, showing the dilapidated Peaceful, looking out from the window sill where Sophie made her hat, there is a square paved with bricks and stones. Before the war, everything seemed very warm and peaceful. People were living freely in the midst of busy traffic. From this point of view, Hall's castle is obviously a bit out of tune with the exquisite seaside town. The mechanized appearance, the power of the steam engine and the whole structure that feels like it is about to fall apart when moving, are always worrying and disturbing. At the beginning, Sophie also imagined the castle. After entering the castle, she also gave people a "surprise". The dirty and dark room, cute and strange children all laid a foreshadowing for the development of the story from one side. . But when Sophie couldn't find a place to spend the night on the mountain, she later entered the castle under the guidance of the scarecrow, and even I felt a little warmer when she sat in front of the fire. In fact, for a homeless and enchanted person, don't say anything shabby and messy, just the timely shelter of this small world and this fire is enough to make people feel at home. So much so that when Sophie later put Bacon (bacon: cured meat or bacon, not stated in the slice) in the pan and fry it on the fire, I was drooling. Why does your home seem so warm on a cold winter night? For a passer-by, even a humble hut, as long as a fire and a pile of straw, makes people grateful. Then, when Sophie was cleaning the windows of the whole castle, she walked to the balcony of the moving castle and looked at the magnificent scenery under her feet. I felt that the whole world of my heart was flying like this. No matter how dark the scene and the tragic pain Hall saw in the time and space of war, as long as he returns to the castle, back to his own fire, and more importantly, back to Sophie's love for him In the middle of the night, all the haze will be swept away, just like the dust of the castle has been driven out by Sophie, and the whole soul will appear crystal clear.
And what I want to say most is the inspiration that Hayao Miyazaki brought us through a group of lovely fire spirits. For love, home, life, whether it is war or parting, as long as there is a flame burning in the heart, life can continue, love can continue, and touching can continue. This may be a child’s view I don't understand, and maybe many adults can't see it. However, Hayao Miyazaki has always used his method, with a starting point close to a naturalist, to depict an ideal country with pure lines and clean colors that make people afraid of any contamination, thus constantly reminding human beings. And how much of the warmth of that flame have we seen, heard, and touched.
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