Ah Jue dianying | this 19-minute dialogue-free ink animation can make me cry

In the past, it was always said that Chinese animation was still in the process of digesting and learning, from imitation to self-creation. This process is destined to be difficult to win international awards. Nor is that true. In fact, in 1988, the Chinese ink animation "Landscape and Water" won the Best Short Film Award at the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada, which is equivalent to the Oscar for animation. Its artistic uniqueness, luxurious configuration, and high artistic language have become the pinnacle of Chinese ink animation, and have finally become a generation of masterpieces.

Modern anime needs to tell stories, and the story of "Landscape and Water" can be told in a few words. In the wind and snow mountains and rivers, the old violinist came with the violin and fainted after crossing the river. The young man on the ferry took him to the hut to take good care of him, and the violinist was grateful and passed on a piece of piano art to the teenager. A few years after the spring and autumn, the old and the young were in love with the father and son, but the old violinist did not stay. The wind and rain rose again, he waved his sleeve to bid farewell, and the teenager cried and stroked the piano to send off...

In 1988, China's unique ink animation has a number of mature works, such as "Mudi", "Deer Bell", etc., and "Landscape and Water" gathers the masters and skills of the peak period, and also accumulates enough concentration to wait for the wall to break out.

The impact of the film "Beauty" is staggering. In terms of painting, Chinese painting masters Wu Shanming and Mr. Zhuo Hejun took the lead, dotting ink to break the air, line ink flowing, dyeing ink, different water meanings of rivers and even ponds, staggered and conveyed. Guqin master Gong Yi is responsible for the whole piece of guqin playing, the empty valley sound, there is no dialogue, all by the flow of water, wind, rain, snow and the sound of the piano and flute, bringing people into the vast landscape, seeing the infinite in the limited.

The story of the film is minimalist, but it is open and expansive, and it hits the soul. It does not use specific language to define the identity, context, and thoughts of the pianist and the teenager, but instead gives the emotion a deeper depth of field and a deeper connotation.

How to understand the old violinist? He is like everyone who comes from the bustling red dust, doomed to lose, destined to leave. He may be Li Guinian after the Anshi Rebellion, empty-handed, only memories like snow in his heart. He is like a Confucian who has failed to restore the Qing Dynasty, and is about to disappear into the mountains with tired dreams. He seemed to be just a frustrated old man from the capital, with no meritorious name and no Lilu, only the white-clothed breeze and a guqin were still accompanied. The organist seems to condense the souls of all the frustrated but stubborn disciples of the past and the present, embracing white and destined to leave the table.

At the fateful ferry, the violinist meets the teenager. The teenager in the story doesn't even distinguish between male and female because it doesn't matter at all. He was just a pure child full of spirits, and also without much shelter and dependence, with the cleanest heart and the most admired attachment at first. Between the pianist and the teenager, they slowly formed the most precious acquaintance of life. In order to improve the teenager's understanding of beauty and the world, the violinist takes the teenager to enjoy the mountains and rivers, ascend to the far horizon, and appreciate the mysteries of the landscape in each season. Autumn weather comes in the west, the autumn leaves of the deep valley are not falling by themselves, the wind blows snow, and the grains can be heard. As the young man understood the teacher more and more, his understanding of the world became deeper and deeper, and the sound of the fingertip piano became clearer and purer.

Everything is different in the end, and "Landscape and Water" pours out the deepest acquaintance and separation in the world. The violinist decided to leave, and gave the violin to the teenager before leaving. The teenager fell to his knees and wept, without tears of dialogue, and was a silent attachment. "I adore you so much, Master, don't leave can you", this sentence may be tacky and common as soon as it is spoken in a voice, and the farewell of no voice in the film, with the sound of the piano, stirs people to tears.

The violinist walked alone into the distance, as lonely as ever. The young man did not hold back any longer, he pulled out his feet and galloped to the peak where he could see the back of the master, and played "Landscape and Water Feelings". The teenager struggled and peacefully integrated all emotions and life into the sound of the piano- this is the world you taught me, this is the world you led me to see, and a part of you finally became me.

The piano, like the wind blowing snow, is sent all the way behind the organist, and it also reverberates in the vast sky and mountains and rivers. The sound of the wind rubbing, the sound of a thousand mountains and drizzle slowly from far and near, and the sound of pulling away from near, are all distant parting. The violinist walked slowly. He must have been pleased that at the ferry of life, he had fulfilled the unintended entrustment. In this world, eventually someone knew him, understood him, attached to him, and inherited him.

The piano teachers and teenagers that everyone understands are different because of their life experiences and emotions, they can be father and son, father and daughter, teacher and apprentice, and can be any pair of deep feelings in the world that are understood and understood, worshipped and worshipped. The galaxy is splendid, the mountains and rivers are vast, and these infinite and vast accommodations, with the unique love and gentleness of the East, stir up the sorrow of the confidant, and gently soothe the hearts of all the departed people in the world.

On the B station, there is the whole film after the restoration of "Landscape and Water". Before watching this film, if anyone said that a 19-minute ink animation without dialogue or even much color could make me cry, I would laugh. And from the tenth minute on, countless people left tear-soaked messages on the bullet screen and worshiped away - the ultimate art shows some terrible power. It is telling a story, and completely abandoning the boots and hats of the story, in the most soul-like way, directly telling and arriving at the emotion, becoming an aria without lyrics.

From expression to connotation, "Landscape and Water" is the most independent and mature crystallization of traditional humanities, and can also become the Chinese animation that has won the most international awards, completely breaking the limitations of national boundaries and aesthetics. At the Montreal International Film Festival, experts believe that it does not have any barriers to understanding and is truly "International". Such a pure-blood oriental sample cannot be copied in today's commercial system, and simple imitation has little meaning, just like the decline of Kunqu opera can only be replaced by Peking Opera, and Tang poetry is brilliant and turned into Song Ci. The metabolism of art is unstoppable, but from the perspective of the amazing artistic charm of "Landscape and Water", how to absorb, reorganize and shape traditional literature in today's animation, rather than pasting simple cultural symbols, is a future worth exploring. (Reporting by Wang Wenjue, client reporter of Dazhong Daily)