I remember when I watched "Natsume's Friend's Account: Empty Cicadas" in the cinema last year, my inner touch was not very big. When I revisit it again today, I was deeply moved by this film. I found that there are a lot of plots in the film that are worth revisiting, and there are places worth rethinking.
"Natsume Friends' Account" is a serial anime that has been around for six seasons and has a Douban rating of 9.5. "The Empty Cicada" is a theatrical version of the movie, which is about the memories and commemorations of this anime for ten years.
The characters who appear in the movie are still the characters in the anime, and when the audience watches the movie, they can review the six seasons of the anime that aired, as if reliving the memories of ten years.
The teenager Natsume Takashi who has accompanied us for ten years, as well as the cat teacher Ban, still bring us different feelings in this movie, especially this movie also brings a touch of loneliness and parting.
Will those who once existed around us and softened our years disappear? Will we still remember when they disappear, and this movie gives us the answer.
In addition to the plot and theme of the film, there are other aspects worth thinking about, and this article will analyze the uniqueness of this film from three aspects: characters, film themes and picture composition.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > characters: the warmth that each character exudes heals us in front of the screen</h1>
In this film, the author Midorikawa Yuki has a distinct portrayal of each character, and the character image is portrayed appropriately, so that they all have unique character characteristics. The gentle Natsume, even though she is weak in her own strength, still wants to take care of others. Verbally unforgiving, meow spots, but always accompanied Natsume.D. It looks scary, but if you get into closer contact, you will also find that the monster is also so gentle, sometimes even more fragile than a person.
At the beginning of the movie, Natsume Takashi is introduced: I have been able to see some strange things since I was a child, but others seem to be unable to see them, and those things should be the so-called monsters.
Natsume lost her parents at an early age and was kicked around like a leather ball by her relatives, developing a lonely and sensitive personality. Because Natsume could see the youkai, she was considered abnormal by other students.
Natsume is fragile, sensitive, and has no friends, but later becomes an infinitely gentle person, a person with courage, responsibility, and always thinking about others. Natsume was never afraid even when facing the youkai, as his friends and cat teacher were by his side.
Cat Spot is a youkai who originally only wanted a friend's account, because if he got a friend's account, he could rule the youkai in the woods. But he stayed by Natsume's side and accompanied Natsume.
Natsume also regards Cat Spot as a teacher to help her, thus calling him "Cat Teacher". Cat Ban's personality is full of knife mouth tofu heart, even if the head is verbally unforgiving, but every time at the last moment, he will always appear next to Natsume and rescue natsume.
Natsume and Cat Spot are like the people around us, the one who always says that we have everything bad, the one who often quarrels with us, the person who can help us every time in important moments, like Cat Spot, gives us infinite tenderness.
Every time we think about it, people who can smile are present in our lives, supporting and helping us. I think this is the value that the film wants to pass on to us, so that we can think of the people around us, so as to cherish them and cherish the friendship between each other.
Fleeting encounters and partings, every moment, I want to cherish - Wang Yuan
In addition to Natsume and Cat Spot, there are also Natsume Reiko, Fujiwara and Yokai. Reiko renounces her associations with humans and competes with yokai to get their names, thus creating a connection with the world.
After losing natsume's parents, Uncle Shigeru and Aunt Tatsuko are still willing to take Natsume in, taking care of Natsume as if they were their own children and giving Natsume the love of their relatives. The monsters were originally a group of lonely creatures, but when they bonded with people, they would also be infinitely gentle.
The characters portrayed in the film have rich and delicate emotions, which allow us to quickly connect with the people around us. Natsume is like the child next door, cat spots are like their own pets, and Reiko and youkai, like those introverts and non-talkative people in life, are not good at expressing even if they have all kinds of tenderness in their hearts.
A person's life is to grow and mature in the bondage and love with others. The characters in the film give us inspiration and thinking, and let us start thinking about the people and things in life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the film's unique themes: healing and tenderness, loneliness and alienation</h1>
When I went to the cinema to see the movie before, I saw that the movie posters were written as "The Healing Masterpiece of the Year", "No Longer Make You Sad", "Ten Years of Summer Eyes, Warm as Ever". As can be seen from the copywriting of the movie poster, the main theme of the movie is healing and tenderness.
Starting from the entire story structure and plot of the movie, Natsume and Cat Spot's emotional bondage, daily quarrels and mouths, and appear next to each other when they need each other.
Natsume's classmates, when Natsume was ill and hospitalized, all rushed to the hospital to visit Natsume, saying "How can I be so careless", and what was revealed in her words was the care and care for Natsume. The lonely yokai, in their repeated exchanges with Natsume, became friends who needed each other, and could tell Natsume about anything happy or troublesome.
The author, Yuki Midorikawa, depicts the trivial little things in life with great tenderness. I once read a review of Midorikawa's works: she is good at depicting some warm and trivial emotional stories in a sad background and environment, and no matter what, many small and casual details also show different brilliance under her brush.
In my opinion, the author is good at capturing the details of life and the small fragments that warm people's hearts, so that the characters and themes can be portrayed as real and warm.
Because real stories can often move readers and resonate, when the audience watches the movie, they can connect with reality and recall the touching stories around them, which is the value brought by reality.
In the music "As long as there are people you want to see, you are not alone", there is a high praise comment: there is touch, there is loss, there is warmth, there is sadness, but it is all a gentle heartbeat.
Natsume once said: I want to be a gentle person, because I have been treated like a gentle person, and I deeply understand the feeling of being treated gently.
Gentleness is the biggest theme of this movie, because Natsume has been treated gently by others, so she will also want to be that kind of person in her heart. Once people have ideas in their hearts, they will want to work hard in some aspect. Eventually become the person you expect. Natsume has also become a gentle person in our hearts, bringing us warmth and touch.
In my opinion, in addition to tenderness and healing, this film has another layer of theme loneliness and alienation. The sense of loneliness and alienation contained in healing and tenderness. The reason why tenderness and healing can touch people's hearts is because of the lack of heart.
People and people, people and demons, in fact, are lonely, and it is precisely because of this loneliness that they need to be bound to the real world, such as family affection, friendship and love.
Natsume's grandmother was alienated by her peers because she could see yokai; Natsume was not understood because she could see yokai when she was a child; yokai always refused to leave because of a little bondage in the world.
They are all lonely, so they want to draw tenderness from others even more, and when they are treated gently, they want to be gentle with others.
Just like the name of the movie, "The Empty Cicada of The Marriage", "The Fate" represents encounter and acquaintance, and these two are a kind of fate. At the official voice actor meeting of the theatrical version of Natsume's Friends, Tanuma's voice actor explained the title, "Empty Cicada" is the empty shell that the cicada has come off. He added: Human beings are as illusory and short-lived as empty cicadas.
Before the cicada's metamorphosis, it accumulates strength in its own chrysalis, and when the cicada breaks out of the chrysalis, it leaves an empty shell. The empty shell represents both the previous existence and the separation of the present, and there is a sense of temporary separation that cannot be grasped.
The story of the mother and son of Rong Lizhi and Starling Xiong is the best explanation for the "empty cicada", even if they have been with each other for eight years, they still have to separate in the end. Starling continues to walk his own path with the happiness and memories of the past, and these beautiful memories are all another kind of loneliness and tenderness for Rong Lizhi and Starling.
In the life of a person, in just a few decades, the people who appeared in these times and the things that happened will remain in our memories. As the light keeps moving forward, will we forget the people and things we have cherished before, as if they really didn't exist?
We don't know about this question, because people's memories are limited and become more and more blurred over time. So we should start from this time, cherish the people around us, cherish their good time with us, and do our best to bring them happiness and touch.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > picture: the ubiquitous compositional aesthetic, the color and light are just right</h1>
I believe that friends who have seen this movie, the biggest feeling of the picture is fresh and beautiful, clean and refreshing. Each frame of the picture can be taken down as wallpaper.
The main color of this film is green, emerald green fields, clear rivers, evergreen distant mountains, dense forests, green plants in houses, etc., all of which are shown in green, giving people a fresh look of nature.
The author, Yuki Midorikawa, said: "The light will hit the lush bushes, and in the shade of the green trees live mischievous elves." Light will come out of the clouds and spread over streams and pebbles. The light should mark the path that every bicycle rides, and the light should guard the village where the cooking smoke is everywhere. There should be trees, large green trees, offerings by the trees, large and small famous and nameless gods all be respected equally. There must be a pure sky flowing like seawater, there must be a full-bodied yokai laughing and cursing, and there must be another parallel space to hold the original pulsations of life."
Judging from the author's remarks, the theatrical version of "Natsume's Friend's Account" completely follows his compositional aesthetics and settings. On the screen of each scene, there is a bright light, the light from the sky to the forest, to the humans and monsters, so that each character has a faint light, soft and not dazzling.
The light hit every green tree in the deep forest, and on the leaves of every tree, some of the leaves reflected the light of the sun and shone brightly.
These scenes can't help but give people infinite reverie, what kind of people live in the forest, or what kind of monsters.
Green represents new life and life, hope and peace. Green is neither a cool nor a warm color, but a neutral color, which is a mixture of yellow and blue colors, and assumes the main hue throughout the film.
The existence of distant mountains, woods, leaves, meadows, these scenes, makes the film have a comfortable and natural and unobtrusive look, just like being in nature, the audience can feel the breeze blowing through the woods, blowing through the meadow, paddling from the river, dancing next to the characters.
Natsume and Cat Spot are always white, and white represents simplicity, simplicity and ease. White is not as oppressive as black, and in the small fresh style of The Day, the characters often wear a white school uniform, giving people a kind and sunny male image.
Natsume's pale orange hair, which also matches his gentle personality, gives people a faint warmth at a glance.
The author and director want to present us with a fresh and gentle healing wind through color, matching the character of the character, and also want to call on people to love nature, protect nature, and express the concept of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature through green.
Conclusion: The reason why "Natsume Friends Account: The Empty Cicada" is loved, in addition to the characters and pictures in the play, more importantly, the theme of this film, gentleness and healing, as well as the loneliness and alienation hidden under this theme, make people realize the importance of cherishing.
Cherish the people around you who love you, cherish the people around you who protect yourself, and gradually grow up with the feelings and happiness they bring to yourself.
Author: Nan Gardenia, I hope to meet friends with literature and make progress together.