For an older child who is going to Disneyland tomorrow, watching Disney animations today is like a year-long injection. This big company, which is famous all over the world by a mouse, even in such a difficult 2020 when the epidemic is raging, has not forgotten to prove that he has both a mature film industry process and a steady stream of inspiration.
As a movie fan, I have already formed a conditioned reflex for Pixar's production: ah, it must be an animated film with high production standards and neat narrative routines, but it will definitely make me cry and laugh. Let me see how you guys want to trick me!
As a result, every time, every time, I still cry, laugh and clap my hands and exclaim: Disney, as expected of you. With money, technology and vision, you who own Pixar can fight for another two hundred years!
Monkey King opened the prelude to the rise of Guoman with its excellent production. After that, the production of Guoman became more and more exquisite. But you'll never consider Disney in terms of pictures, just as you'll never care whether the top student in your grade is doing well or not. The color matching, composition, image design and dynamic micro-expression simulation produced by Disney are undoubtedly world-leading. So what we care about is what kind of story you can tell.
If you have read introductory books on screenwriting such as Rescue the Cat, you know that the globalized Hollywood film industry has a complete narrative routine and a comprehensive set of characters. If you pull a commercial film, it opens in a few minutes, the first act, the second act, the structure of the beginning and the end is similar. Even conflict types and plots have become very routine after a hundred years of development in the film industry.
Therefore, many fans who have read the film can easily predict the plot direction. More and more critical audiences are looking forward to something new to impress themselves in the vast routine.
The great thing about Disney is that he is a master of the film industry, and there is no assembly line factory that is more familiar with routines than him. But he can use routines against routines, and he can tell a new story with all the bridges you've seen. It seems that the top chefs don't care if there are delicacies from the mountains and seas, and the home-cooked dishes still make the guests' eyes shine.
How to recombine elements and bridges in a fixed structure is one of Disney's great storytelling skills, and the second is the story that Disney tells. I have summed it up a bit. In this film, there is no object, no friendship, no feminism, no flag, no born to be sb, no saving the world, no forever. One of the main characters doesn't even have a gender! Maybe it's because of the epidemic that people gave up the fantasy of heroes appearing, and soul's focus has also become the ordinary life of ordinary people.
There are also the setting and music dream of the afterlife. Coco is asking about the return of life after the disappearance of life. Soul discusses the origin of life before the birth. Coco's happy ending is a family carnival that has both family support and music dreams. Soul's happy ending The ending is when a young man who lives alone pushes open the door and walks into a new day that is the same as yesterday.
In the strange journey where two souls meet, experience together, and inspire each other, the discussions I see are:
When I found out that I was going to die, can I accept the fact that I died,
Whether the birth of a life is a choice of free will,
Whether only successful people can be mentors to inspire others,
Can a person who achieves nothing but also want to live very much?
I haven't found the way I want to go Is it possible to go too,
I want to take a scalpel, but life forced me to take a razor, can I also be a good hairdresser, can I live happily?
Knowing thousands of truths and watching thousands of lives is better than experiencing it for one day.
Get what you want, but also lose and accept the new day after day.
Oh! Why can others discuss so many topics silently in the routine, and I can only nod my head like a garlic, and I can never write such a story? Why do I cry and laugh knowing that Disney is going to do another trick, but I still fall into the trap in the end? Why can others tell a story that is so heart-warming and heart-warming?
The most impressive and difficult scene is Joey telling 22 that I will go with you, as far as I can go. Then the two flew to the earth hand in hand. 22's expression changed from panic to anticipation and joy. The two of them released their hands naturally, and Joey calmly returned to the stairs to wait for death. Here, both of them have found their respective places of return, which is a happy ending.
But how can I, a layman, accept a happy ending in my own tomorrow? I was so looking forward to the two of them holding hands and looking at each other with tears in their eyes and saying some sad parting words, and I was ready to be sensationalized by Disney. But without this scene, two mutually inspired souls parted so contentedly, as if you were passing a stranger on the road. It seems that it doesn't matter whether we can still recognize each other or remember each other in the end. What matters is that we take the inspiration from the other party to ourselves, feel and experience every moment.
What soul talks about is completely a person's mental journey, and has nothing to do with others or any relationship. But his discussion of how to deal with disappointment and how to view your life is relevant to everyone. Don't define it as an educational film that is only suitable for teachers and parents, watch it, and inspire yourself.
Ps The soundtrack should be the best, and can get the charm of jazz. Also, can the Chinese name and copywriting be more attractive?
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