★ Recommended for: Art students, Miyazaki fans, singles
☆ Viewing method: Other
☆ Movie watching tips
1. Picture book writer Raymond Briggs is best known for "The Snowman", which was changed in 1982 by the anime of the same name.
2. Raymond Briggs' two comic book collections, Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes and Santa Daddy, both won the Kate Greenway Award.
3. The film was screened at the 2016 London Film Festival.
☆ Network scoring
Douban 8.7 IMDb 7.9
☆ Media reviews
The Hollywood Reporter: The film rejects the inertial thinking that the plot needs drama to develop, and tells an emotionally rich story from an ordinary perspective.
The New York Times: From the first date to the end of a lifetime, this kind of fairy tale of the adult world, the Japanese have been doing for decades, and the UK still has a lot to learn.
DOG AND WOFL: Thanks to director Roger Mainwood for restoring Raymond Briggs' work so perfectly.
☆ Fan reviews
Half a grapefruit_Douban: It's like a previous villain book that turns from beginning to end, and the ending is a little sad.
Josan Ori_Weibo: Companionship is the longest confession of affection, and the details of parents' daily lives are portrayed perfectly.
Kramer06_IMDb: When I was a kid, I loved [The Snowman] the most, and I knew it must be a good movie.
☆ Watch movie reviews
The beautiful hand-painting style and delicate and gentle way of telling constitute a warm fairy tale.
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Trivial everyday, ordinary life
The film uses a colorful lead painting style to paint an ordinary but extraordinary picture.
Although the story is told in a seemingly flowing account, it will not be boring at all.
There is no cool vision, no deliberately created emotion, and no overly pretentious bridge section.
But it is with this calm as water style that the story told is so unforgettable and deeply moving.
What is extraordinary is that the film integrates nearly 50 years of British history into the couple's life.
Serious topics such as World War II, political parties, economic depression, and turbulent world patterns have all been transformed into condiments in the life of chai rice oil and salt.
The film does not have any grand picture depiction of the war, but starts from a simple and ordinary family.
Reveal the social life of that time through trivial and trivial things.
This clever approach, that is, does not destroy the warm style of the film, but also reflects the impact of the war on ordinary families.
The film is based on the work of Raymond Briggs, the leading British picture book master.
The director uses an absolute restoration technique to present the original work to the audience.
The unique hand-painted simple painting style suddenly brings the audience into a fairytale-like world.
The warm tones of the film, the warm soundtrack, and the small humor that appear from time to time all warm people's hearts.
In the most difficult war years, the two responded to the policy of sending their five-year-old son to the countryside for foster care.
The husband reads the newspaper and listens to the radio, keeping an eye on the situation, while the wife always looks forward to her son's letter.
In this way, the couple maintained a certain optimism and worked hard.
After the brutal war, the film once again returned to a warm and romantic painting style.
This style of painting suddenly changed and did not make people feel uncomfortable.
Instead, there is a feeling like being able to finally get home on the soft bed after tossing and turning in an uncomfortable hotel bed.
While full of joy, I was relieved that the family could get through the difficulties smoothly.
Husbands and wives have different hobbies, and whenever the husband is excited to mention the important news of current affairs, he is complained about by the uninterested wife.
But when encountering difficulties, when sad and crying, as long as the two people hug each other affectionately, you know I understand, there is no need to say more.
There is no great joy and sorrow in the world of the two in the film, there is no groundless quarrel, and they all reflect their love for each other in the details of the long stream.
The biggest feature of the film is still "ordinary", so ordinary that you feel that this is your parents, your story.
Unlike the Japanese animation led by Hayao Miyazaki, it is also a warm style and a moving story, but the way it is told is completely different.
Miyazaki's works are mostly warm and romantic painting styles, coupled with imaginative forms of expression, forming a fantasy and beautiful world.
In this film, all the characters have flesh and blood, although it is a story that takes place in the UK, it feels like we all know each other.
Helplessly, even the warmest story has an ending, the wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease, even the husband no longer knows, and soon passed away.
Later, her husband also died of a heart attack, and the story of their lives ended peacefully.
The film does not deal too much with this section, and naturally finishes the story.
We are watching more and more movies, and our vision is getting higher and higher, and directors and screenwriters are also trying to make breakthroughs.
But there are few films that have no routine and just want to tell the story to the audience simply.
It's not that the audience has become too picky, and the films that flow out of the truth can always touch people's hearts.