This is the highest-rated animated short film in Douban in 2017, and it is also jokingly called "Toy Story Pendant" by netizens.
The painting style is still Pixar's most striking innocence and childishness, with high saturation and brilliant colors depicting the real childhood of a child, but also leading to imperceptible trauma in his heart.
What kind of transformation will happen to the bear child who does nothing evil? This LOU gives the best inspiration.
The story begins with a seemingly carefree kindergarten, the sun is shining, the children are playing noisily, a football ball flies from the playground and lands firmly on the tree, the rush of the class bell rings, and the little black boy and his partner can only run back to the classroom sadly.
This picture is quite interesting, the rugby ball flies to the tree in a parabolic shape, the main body is focused on the ball, the children and the playground behind it are the imaginary scenes, this is the first scene at the beginning, as if the ball is the protagonist, the author has built a special perspective for us at the beginning, suggesting that there will be something unusual happening next.
Sure enough, when the lively playground quieted down, a "little cutie" began to stir.
The little red hand took off the rugby, sorted out the school bag on the playground, slid "stinging" over the slide, skillfully climbed the eaves and walked the wall, and finally bypassed the window and quietly returned to her "home".
"LOST and FOUND" – Lost and Found, let's call it lou for now.
An unknown object that resembles Santa Claus, but has a conch girl-like blue heart, lou after everything is sorted out, the class bell rings again, just when I think about whether the foreign kindergarten class time is so short, the handsome male number two of this film grandly debuted, and came up to hug our male protagonist: rugby.
This stocky little fat boy looked quite resistant to beating, he held the ball and jumped left and right, like an excited gorilla, not only lacking teeth but also lacking morality, the little black brother who grabbed the ball was confused, he excitedly directed people to catch the ball, and the result was directly led to the garbage can and fell on all fours.
The innocent bear child appears, and the story officially unfolds.
The little fat child continued to do evil, not only grabbing the game console, but also kicking over the little girl's beautiful doll and throwing it into his school bag.
The little girl's theory is not successful, the class bell rings again, can only go back to the classroom angrily, the school bully little fat child is naturally not afraid of skipping class, he turned back, but found that his school bag was missing, at this time, there was a ringing in the grass.
Lou, who was as kind as a mother, had been watching the children play in the box, but he was stunned by the operation of this little fat child, and the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he wanted to teach him a lesson, Lou stole the little boy's school bag, and the little fat child flew to fight the thief to the death.
In a critical moment, a bunch of old toys are torn to the ground, and what is even more amazing is that they quickly reorganize and barely transform into human beings, which turned out to be lou's original form.
Scared to be afraid, just when Lou tries to slip away with the little boy's school bag, the little boy shouts out his only line in the whole play:
“HEY！”
Then he bravely chased after it, launched the "school bag battle", and touched the well-built Brother Tang in the porcelain "Spy Shadow", his mouth was evil and smiling, and the inevitable look was really a hundred million points greasy.
It escapes his pursuit, and it is difficult to fly with its wings.
The stumbling Lou couldn't run the little fat child at all, was kicked to the ground many times, but immediately regrouped strongly, each time the shape was different, such as snakes, postmen, sad frogs..? How many times it has changed, you can count it yourself.
Lou and the little fat child wrestled wits and courage, the two launched a chase game in the playground, basically without talking about martial arts with low-level tricks such as "spitting and pulling hair", but no matter what, the little fat child who was good at playing rogues finally had the upper hand, pulling Lou's hind legs on the net, Lou pulled two pillars to death, and the little fat child also insisted on not letting go.
Have you ever fought for someone else? Lou said there had been, and so did the little chubby boy.
At the crucial moment, Lou looked back and saw the "JJ" Peugeot on the little boy's panties, to be honest, I don't understand why someone would sew their name on the panties, but in any case, the unusual Lou successfully got this important information and quickly made a match in his mind.
Lou catapulted with all his strength and took off and returned to his hometown box.
The little boy holds up his school bag to show victory, but Lou also holds up the bear to show victory.
The atmosphere took a turn for the worse, and the change took place at this moment.
Looking at the bear printed with the word "JJ", the little boy was like a punctured balloon, instantly deflated, remembering the heartache of the bear that had been robbed before, and the gray memories surged into his heart, and the little boy dragged his school bag forward, wanting to get the bear back, but Lou refused.
The little boy gritted his teeth and handed out his bag in exchange, but Lou still shook his head.
The two were deadlocked, the bell rang again after class, the children in the classroom rushed out, the little boy took the lead in returning the football in front of the black brothers, and then returned the game console, he returned to the lost and found frame again, wanting the bear, but Lou gave him more toys and asked him to continue to return.
The girl who received the pink piglet gave him a big hug, and this time, it was true that "love is coming".
The little boy turned around in disbelief, the little girl shyly ran away, and Lou in the distance continued to encourage him.
The little boy felt "love" for the first time.
He took the initiative to run to Lou and open his school bag, but this time it was not for his own bear.
He returned the lost toys of others one by one, from a bear child that everyone hated to a helpful heart, the children who received the "gift" were very happy, and the little boy also received a sense of accomplishment.
The little boy has returned all the toys, and we will also usher in the end of the story.
The "Lost and Found" box is empty, the "Lou" who encouraged the little boy to transform is no longer seen, and as the prototype of the lost property, it returns itself to all the children, its body seems to disappear, but the soul seems to be reborn in another way.
The little boy finds the last doll at the bottom of the box: his bear cub. He held the bear firmly in his arms and hugged his own weak ribs tightly.
A rugby ball flew out, just like at the beginning of the story.
The difference is that rugby this time found the target and went straight to the little boy, and the little boy who turned around saw the invitation of the black partner, and he threw the ball back and participated in them.
This concludes the seven-minute short film.
The short film is highly rated internationally, and even many fans believe that the Oscar owes it a small golden man.
On the screen, Pixar maintains a high standard as always, even if the story is heavier and deeper, it also adopts a childlike painting style, only when it comes to the story of the boy and the bear, the only gray tone in the whole film is used, and it is this turn that makes the core of the story go to a new level: the bear child who likes to bully his classmates may also have a sad childhood.
It is precisely because of being robbed of toys that the little boy has become a bully that everyone hates.
Both violence and love can be transmitted, some choose the former, some choose the latter.
"Lou", composed of children abandoning toys, does not abandon themselves, but silently observes the children in the box, and when he sees them being bullied, Lou steps forward, but when it comes to educating the little boys, it uses the most gentle way.
It knows his weaknesses, it knows that only love can resolve conflicts.
Bear children are difficult to educate, but society and parents should really patiently ask: Why? This is probably the different line of thinking that this short film offers on resisting violence in schools.
One trick in psychotherapy is "hypnosis", which is different from the magic in the TV series, it is simply to let the patient explore the depths of his soul in a comfortable environment, to see what is wrong.
The keen Lou is the little boy's psychiatrist.
In addition to "Toy Story", what I can see most in Lou's body is the shadow of "Robot Story", which is like the Wall-e who advocates love and would rather sacrifice himself than keep hope, and the little boy is like the "grass of life" that has been protected by it.
At the end of the story, the rugby ball that runs through the film flies to the little boy, like a person gently tapping him on the shoulder, this invitation may not be an accident, but "lou", love u.