A long time ago, I was very concerned about the cost of the film. Although a big production may not produce a good work, I still very much reject the kind of film that can be seen to be cheap at a glance - the picture is the carrier of the film, and the picture is bad. Just like the poems written on the toilet walls, I have no right to appreciate them.
So when I watched this movie for the first time, a voice always echoed in my mind-"It's so expensive! It's so expensive!" It is so expensive to use the money-burning technology of stop-motion animation to make such exquisite and beautiful pictures. ! So that in my eyes, Emily turned into a butterfly in the end, isn't that dollar flying away?
When I finally had the opportunity to appreciate the film in terms of content and form, regardless of the production cost, I finally realized what it was.
What can a 76-minute film tell? So when I saw the ridiculously disproportionate and ridiculous symbolic images of Victor and Victoria's parents, I laughed clearly - there's no time to write too many words on them, a face, and the right and wrong are clear at a glance, What a great way. Does such a dark and evil image make sense? Is it really okay to create such an image to stimulate the viewer's eyes? In my opinion, ugliness itself is a part of aesthetics. There is no beauty without ugliness. How can we think Emily is beautiful and cute without a villain who looks like an alarm clock candlestick.
I always feel that the tone of this movie is too dark, giving people a feeling of depression all the time, especially the little melancholy that sometimes appears in Victor's fish bubble eyes against the thick dark circles under his eyes, which makes me feel him intuitively. Anxiety and confusion inside. It wasn't until we followed him underground and saw the hustle and bustle of the ghost bar that I started to think about what made the otherwise bright world so dark.
Regarding the protagonist's story, I don't want to discuss whether Victor loves Emily, because I'm not even sure if Emily loves Victor. In my opinion, it's more of a redemption story than a love story.
Did Emily pester this Victor because of love in the first place? Obviously impossible, so why is she pestering Victor? It's not because of that vow - "I will never be a free soul until true love comes." She is waiting for a symbolic opportunity to give herself a reason to let go of the past. It is irrational to pin personal happiness on some illusory subjective factor—for example, love, as they bourgeois say.
Although the past is unbearable to look back on, it is still unwilling to let it go. Not everyone can take the sad past as a fall, get up and pat the buttocks and move forward as always. "I'm the victim." Emily never let go of this, she kept putting herself in the quagmire of pain for others to see. Why didn't she drop the label? If she gave up, she would be like every cute bone in the underworld - she was dead, and she didn't care what she was doing before her death.
There are so many little devils in the underworld, and it is impossible for all of them to die without regrets. Why is Emily the only one who deserves pity from everyone? There must be a group of tragic characters in society, because when people have sympathy, they have silently put themselves on a high place to look down on the victims, which will undoubtedly bring great spiritual joy. Sympathy is the sweetest poison for the weak.
I rarely sympathize with others, not because I have a cold temperament, but because I feel that I am not qualified to sympathize with others.
Just like Hemingway, his experience was absolutely tragic even in the war years, so do you sympathize with him? I guess very few people would say that - at least I haven't come across it yet. What do people say? I admire Hemingway, I respect Hemingway, Hemingway is my idol, Hemingway is my spiritual pillar. I suddenly thought of a popular saying - put away your cheap sympathy!
After all, it is still too weak, Emily is weak, so she longs for redemption instead of seeking self-help; Victor is weak, so he is manipulated as a doll by his parents from the beginning. Victor is not a prince, he is too slender and neurotic, but Emily is a princess, she is innocent, beautiful and pure and kind, I prefer Victoria, her name means victory in Latin, she is a good Girl, ordinary can't be ordinary, she is stronger than us and braver but only a little bit, we will make the same decision as her.
The ending couldn't have been better. The cowardly Victor had no confidence in himself for Victoria, so he made the greatest decision he could - he was going to save Emily. I was very worried when the plot was here, worried that he really died like this, leaving a huge misunderstanding and regret, leaving Victoria alone in the corner to grieve. Fortunately, Emily had an epiphany. She saw Victoria's sad eyes and saw the untimely determination on Victor's face. Perhaps she hadn't made up her mind at that time, until the person who killed her appeared, and she foresaw that the same tragedy would happen to Victoria. Astonishing courage poured into her body, she could pull out a heartbreaker and stab into her body with a smile, she had already died once, what else could she be afraid of!
So she smiled and let go of Victor, and threw the withered bridal bouquet to Victoria, hoping they would be happy, not out of great sacrifice, but because the freedom of her soul no longer needed to be granted.
I love you, but you were never mine. And then Emily turned into dollars, oh no, turned into butterflies and flew to heaven. She redeemed herself and the couple. The beauty of that moment shocked me, she was free, and her happiness was no longer interfered by others.
Movies are a world made up of artistic images. This world seems grotesque and absurd, but it contains rationality. It seems irrational, but it is reasonable. It seems too vulgar, but it is vivid. No matter what the director really wants to express, you have experience, that's enough.
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