Wen | pudding
#在这世界的角落 #
"Someone always says I love to be in a daze." With a self-description and a few scene dialogues, the audience is quickly transported to showa japan, and it is also quick to find that the protagonist who takes us into this era is such a "simple" character (human setting): she is small, soft, sweet, or smiles lightly with her head up, or slightly bows her head in a daze, always trying to avoid attracting the attention of others, and others will always inexplicably "ignore" her.
The film tells the trajectory of the life of the heroine XiaoLing from more than ten years before World War II until the eve of the post-war reconstruction. Similar to many children in Japanese anime, the image of Kosuzu is not perfect, which is concentrated in her attitude towards life - from the beginning of the film, she sits on the boat and writes to herself, not paying any attention to what is happening around her, in a daze, lost, unable to remember the last name of her in-laws, who her relatives are...
The confused personality is the key to the establishment of the image of The Little Bell, and it also lays the groundwork for many tragic turns. At the same time, she is born with a love of painting, and her imagination is very amazing, such as the "rabbit" churning in the sea, the "werewolf uncle" who abducts children, and the colorful smoke left by the explosion of the shell... All of this adds a little fun to life, dilutes the cruelty of reality, and makes the whole film full of poetic and even magical colors.
The country launched a war, the people were involved without choice, and in the summer of Showa 19-20, this ordinary family experienced the suffering and grief brought about by the war. As the base of the Japanese Navy, Kure city was repeatedly subjected to air raids during the war. The fires sparked by the warships, the trauma of the air raids, and the whole street was covered with ashes. The important things around Xiao Ling were taken away one by one, and the parting of life and death was a matter of an instant, watching Harumi being blown up in front of her eyes, losing her right hand of painting... Even so, she did not give up hope.
The rulers' ambitions to crush the jade eventually led to a purgatory on earth like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. War is brutal, but animation makes the unbearable, flesh-and-blood reality pass like a watercolor painting. The film shows more ordinary people desperately surviving under the deteriorating war situation every day, actively facing the trivialities of life, appreciating the attitude of the people to live strongly after the war, and eating, which is great! The house hasn't burned out yet, so nice! It's great to be alive!
The first to attract Pudding was the details of the film, which began in 1935 and was a modern era in Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the end of the second year in 1945. Modern history is an important transition period connecting the period of feudal rule with modern democratic society, and many details of social life due to the rapid development of productive forces also have the characteristics of the two eras before and after, which are very unique and fleeting.
The film's detailed record of the life of the citizens of this period is so detailed that Pudding is breathtaking! Morinaga's milk candy (which can also be bought now), the ticket gate at the tram station, how to dry seaweed, mosquito coiled pigs, the cleaning and sprinkling of water at the entrance of the shop, the sand boat, the Ishigaki, the wooden building, the traditional kitchen, the sun-dried persimmon cake hanging...
To ask some people, can the production of an animation in China today recreate such a real and detailed look of China in 1935? Do people think it is necessary to restore the details so full and meticulously? What is history? Is it ism? Traces of great men? A major war? Or the details of ordinary people's lives, food, clothing, housing, joys and sorrows? Pudding didn't say he wanted this and not that, but some people have only this and not that in their hearts, even though they themselves are that.
What is anti-war? To record history, to record life, to record the lives of ordinary people, to arouse people's attachment to a better life, and to be reluctant to see a peaceful life destroyed is anti-war. Regret, pain, and reluctance are the most basic emotions that human beings should have, which is called normal. Telling you in a positive, not ironic way, that war is exciting, glorious, heroic, self-sacrificing, even painful, fun, and enjoyable, that is not called anti-war, that is called war.
No matter which side in the war, it is a victim, it will experience pain, tearing, and breaking, and telling you this is called anti-war. Tell you that others are bad people, bad people deserve to die, tell you that you are the only good person, victim, you should step on the corpse of others and drink and celebrate, that is called anti-humanity!
No one wants to start a war, so it is useless to hate the Japanese nation, although they have done a lot of terrible things in the past, which is difficult to accept, but at least the people are innocent now. Every page of the history book has taken countless lives, and I know what my holder is, but whoever is the same life as me, we are shocked because we understand their stories, and then empathize with the substitution, otherwise each life is enough for us to cry countless times.
The war destroyed many families. The reason women are very disciplined is also because they think that male guests are doing harder work. So what is the meaning of living, the pain of loss in the film, the laughter that appears to the extreme of sadness, how sad and how important a thing is, and only when you are sad can you laugh out.
In the end, I still want to return to XiaoLing in this movie, she is very clumsy and careless, and she is indispensable to the common feelings of people who are happy and sad, but she is very down-to-earth, no one will hate her, her shining point is kindness, her silence and self-reconciliation are all working hard for: don't add trouble, is this not a National Characteristic of Japan?
The reason why Zhe hates the sea is because he has lost his relatives, and when he sees the rabbit in the painting, he ignites hope, and I still feel the torture of my toes grasping the ground during the rest of the writer of Zhe to Zhou, and the conversation and temperament of the two men make it impossible for me to understand, which may be brought about by the war, or it may be a national cultural difference.
Another point to note is that the film never shows a frontal shot of a tragic explosion, either a long-range view or a house burned down after the air raid, and the bomb of the air raid seems to be a watercolor in Suzu's eyes, a post-Impressionist star, and the explosion encountered by Suzu is also freehand. This makes the whole film always maintain a kind of peace, as if separated by layers of veils, showing only the pain of each individual, the first perspective of the family, to make a living. It is also very similar to what WeiMing presents.
In the movie, the emperor's reluctance to broadcast the surrender of the bell for a moment still made Pudding a little disgusted. After all, in comparison, the civilians in China at that time endured more than just the burning of houses. Of course, I soon realized that suffering should not be compared. In Suzu's worldview, she just doesn't share the damage the war has done to her and her family, and ultimately doesn't make any sense.
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There has always been a problem with Japanese World War II movies, the Chinese people do not buy it, the old film is not watched, the new film thinks that the anti-war defeat, the filming of Hiroshima said that he forgot Nanjing, the shooting of the family letter is not true, when shooting strong people say ignore history, when shooting weak hours say victim remarks, then I want to ask those who think that World War II movies about Japan are not good How to make them.
Pudding can not guarantee that the watching does not bring national feelings, but please be objective in the comments, the "patriots" among the viewers please stop a little, at that time who will say that the country is not good, trouble to see the experience of the gendarmes in the "Iwo Jima Family Letter", who can be alone under the operation of the state apparatus.
This kind of subject matter, generally speaking, will have a certain controversy on the Chinese audience side, but I would like to say that looking at most of the reviews, it is disappointing, you can't see if they have watched the whole film with their hearts, but they are just eager to peddle a face of "undefiled", so casual, so indifferent.