"Wild Youth" is an animated film about youth produced by CoMix Wave Films, co-directed by Yi Xiaoxing, Takeuchi Yoshiki, and Li Haoling. The story takes place in three Chinese cities, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, and tells three very different but all small stories about youth!
This is an animated film cooperated between China and Japan, maybe just the name of CoMix Wave Films, you may not be familiar with it, but when it comes to the animated film "Your Name" they have produced, I think everyone is familiar with it! Therefore, this Sino-Japanese cooperation of domestic animation has a very good animation quality, and there are also some of the style and taste of Shinkai Makoto's animation!
Because one of the directors, Li Haoling, is a loyal audience member of "5 Centimeters per Second", it is precisely because this director has always been looking forward to Makoto Shinkai that he will reach a cooperation with Japanese companies after continuous efforts and communication, which is why this movie!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > youth may be so bland</h1>
"Wild Youth" was released in Chinese mainland and Japan on August 4, 2018, but unfortunately the publicity at that time was not too good, so I missed this very good animated film, but fortunately I still made up this masterpiece in the days that followed!
In fact, on the whole, this animated film about youth is actually very bland, and the three stories do not have any very big conflict points, more like using a tone of people who have come to narrate their youth, which is probably the same as the terrier that once exploded on the Internet: "I remembered running under the sunset that day, that was my lost youth"!
Although this sentence was used to be funny in the original work, after the funny, all that is left is the remembrance of youth that can never be returned! And "Wanton Youth" uses three stories to tell the different youths belonging to the Chinese people, which occur in different cities and regions, and also tells the different eras that belong to us, childhood, high school, and adulthood, and the moment when those small elements are brought out by the bland narrative, we understand that maybe youth is so plain!
The name of the animated movie is called "Wanton Youth", but there are only three stories, perhaps as many netizens have commented, the fourth story belongs to us, what kind of youth and story you think of after watching the movie, then that is the fourth story that belongs to this animated movie, is your plain youth!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > nostalgia and inheritance</h1>
What impressed me the most in the animated movie was the first story that most netizens thought was relatively bland, "A Bowl of Nostalgia"!
The story is actually very simple, the male protagonist is named Xiaoming, after getting used to the busy life in Beijing, he began to be a little tired of this unchanging urban life, everyone in the city is busy with their heads down, like one robot after another, on a rainy morning Xiaoming missed his hometown!
So the story kicked off, and the theme of the whole story is actually around a bowl of Hunan rice noodles, which is probably the place where many netizens criticize, and some people joke that this one is actually more like China on the tip of the tongue, but I don't have the same view as most people!
The memory of the male protagonist Xiaoming began from a bowl of three fresh rice noodles in his hometown in Hunan, and when he was a child, he basically started with a bowl of rice noodles brought by his grandmother every day, and the soup cooked by the store itself, fried toppings and homemade rice noodles, so that a bowl full of hometown flavor of three fresh rice noodles became xiaoming's childhood memories!
But one day, this rice noodle shop with one of the best special chefs in Hunan suddenly moved, so that in the days that followed, it would never be able to eat such authentic three-line rice noodles again! Then Bob entered high school, and there was also a rice noodle shop on the way to school!
Only this time the three fresh rice noodles, the soup has become general and the taste of the rice noodles is also average, but the toppings fried by the hostess herself are very good, so the three fresh rice noodles have once again become Xiaoming's daily fixed breakfast! It's just that things are changeable, because the husband of the boss lady laid off, and finally this rice noodle shop became a fishing tackle shop, but the business has declined all the way and become extremely cold!
So the picture returns to Xiaoming in Beijing, he walked into a rice noodle shop, ordered a bowl of three fresh rice noodles, in the big city small and medium-sized stores have become chain stores, all rice noodles have become machine production, soup has also added chicken essence and other condiments, and all the ingredients are produced on the assembly line, Xiaoming eats rice noodles that are more delicious because of various condiments, but can no longer find the taste of the past!
Maybe this small bowl of rice noodles is a kind of inheritance and nostalgia, but that inheritance has gradually changed its taste with the development of the times, and that nostalgia is only a feeling that exists in memory, and can only be recalled again by the rice noodles produced under the assembly line!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > some humble little object, perhaps the treasure that links our youth</h1>
In "A Bowl of Nostalgia", the whole story has been such a bowl of three fresh rice noodles, starting from the time Grandma began to serve Xiaoming a bowl of rice noodles, until Xiaoming returned to his hometown because of his grandmother's illness to eat a bowl of familiar three fresh rice noodles again!
After eating rice noodles in the chain store, Xiaoming received a call from his parents, his grandmother has come to the end of his life and time is running out, so Xiaoming rushed back to his hometown to see the last side of his grandmother, and the old man also lasted until Xiaoming's arrival, after seeing the grandson of his heart, he finally swallowed his last breath!
"Grandma can't bring you rice noodles anymore, but Grandma, I haven't even served you a bowl of flour."
In such a conversation, the elderly old man shook his grandson's hand and swallowed his last breath! Xiao Ming, who returned to his hometown again, looked at the small town that did not have much change, and came to the rice noodle shop on the way to school again, this shop returned to rice noodles again for various reasons, and the hostess family was happy and harmonious, so Xiaoming sat down and ordered a bowl of three fresh rice noodles!
Eating that familiar taste, recalling your youth again, maybe this is a kind of youth as plain as water! And there are things like this bowl of rice noodles in our lives, linking our youth and memories, and those are the treasures in our memories!
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