The animated film Jack et la mécanique du coeur was released in France in 2013.
At present, Douban has more than 20,000 viewers scoring, with a comprehensive score of 8.0, which is better than 67% of animation and 72% of drama films.
The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart / The Mechanics of the Heart.
Based on mathias Malzieu's original book of the same name.
The story reads:
In Edinburgh at the end of the 19th century, on an extremely cold winter, a distressed pregnant woman found Dr. Madeleine, known as a witch. Soon, a weak baby descends on earth, but the little one's heart is frozen, so Madeleine helps him install a mechanical heart. The child's birth mother did not say goodbye, Madeleine raised it as her own son, named Jack, Jack's heart is so fragile...
Soon after opening the movie, I was immediately attracted by the background soundtrack of the movie, coupled with the extremely beautiful painting style mixed with gothic and retro atmosphere... Irresistible...
Spoilers and multi-figure warnings...
<b>Resist spoilers can collect articles, watch the movie and then read ~</b>
Although I think that some movies, spoilers, are still worth watching.
01 The more precious the purer the more fragile
In the movie, Jack has a fragile mechanical heart that cannot withstand strong stimuli.
He must obey the three rules instructed by his adoptive mother Madeleine to protect himself:
1. Do not touch the fingers of the mechanical heart
2, be sure to control your emotions
3, do not stay away from love
Clockwork on my little heart
However, the rules, it seems, have been made to be broken.
Besides, how can a person control his emotions?
First acquaintance, background music
When they first met, Jack's poor mechanical heart was doomed to escape the fate of not escaping the thick and rolling.
Love, blind and beautiful
Life is precious, and love is more expensive.
When you meet love, oh my God, the rules of life and death have long been forgotten.
Love, this inexplicable attraction between people, irresistible impulses.
Feelings are intense, like addiction.
In real life, it seems that the more they are hindered, the more they love like crazy, and they love violently.
There is always an illusion that taboos seem to be some kind of accelerant of love, and it is also the fiercest one.
The purity and fragility of obsession
Jack travels halfway through Europe in search of Acacia, through several twists and turns.
It turned out that it was Jack who Acacia had been thinking about.
The more it is remembered, the purer it is, the more it cannot tolerate any impurities.
Traveling through time and space, the joy of reunion after many years cannot withstand the denigration of love enemies.
Like the young, hurtful love around us.
The ups and downs have been side by side, but they may not be able to escape the chai rice oil and salt.
Love is deep and deadly
Jack, with a mechanical heart, his love is fragile and deadly.
However, this was like his fate, and he handed over the key to the atrium without hesitation.
And her mother Madeleine's deep love for Jack is equally deadly.
She couldn't have children of her own, and he poured all his mother into Jack.
In the movie, when Jack returns home and the family talks about her mother's death, the various "thoughts" in her mouth are emphasizing that if her mother's love is not so deep, she will not die, she has been in prison several times, and several times she is well back.
02 This is a fairy tale for adults
In the past, there was always a fixed thinking that fairy tales were for children to see, but it turned out not to be.
The difference between a child-friendly and adult-friendly fairy tale is:
The need to show the child is innocent and beautiful, and it needs to be fabricated to a certain extent in order to make the children believe in hope, or at least to disguise it, just like the ending of Hans Christian Andersen's "Daughter of the Sea", the little mermaid clearly becomes a bubble, but finally fabricates an angel image (of course, Andersen's fairy tale feels that it is no longer suitable for children).
Adult fairy tales, more of a reality, in a beautiful way of expression, but finally still realistic.
Like Wilde's "Faithful Friend", although he has done his best to depict the colorful garden of little Hans, he is simple and kind, or hopelessly innocently dies for his "loyal friend".
Unfortunately, the princess did not end up living happily with the prince.
Even though Acacia rushed back to find Jack, even though the damn misunderstanding was finally resolved and the miracle didn't happen, Jack's heart was still a fragile thing.
Love can be destroyed or created, but not always.
That's life, and miracles are rare.
This fairytale film interprets reality in the most beautiful way.
Jack drops the key, chooses the liberation of a moment of fiery love, and finally, climbs the snowflakes and goes to heaven, it turns out that heartache can be so pure.
Stunning language of light and shadow
Poor man, it seems his lover, is late... 1 minute?
The hopeless bravado of romance is not specifically designed to make irrelevant people understand their love, but we can always feel how it floods.
The film borrows the fragility of the mechanical heart, magnifies the fragility of the human heart, or in other words, borrows light and shadow to magically visualize the fragility of the abstract.
As soon as the movie was opened, it was captured by the unrestrained romanticism that came over it - cold to freezing, coupled with mysterious Gothic elements - castles, witches, black cats...
Gray school bullying scene
The play within the play is respectful and Merrill loves the director's charm, life is like a play, and drama is like life. Just like the paper-mixed 3D European buildings rising on both sides of the road when they ride a small train, the times are staggered, and it seems to be both real and illusory.
The director's play is "Romeo and Juliet", which may be secretly telling us the tragic core of love.
In Acacia's song, "My Don Quixote" is constantly sung, jack's attachment to love is like Don Quixote,and his mother's maternal love for Jack, isn't the director's attachment to the film also?
In our lives, some people are obsessed with feelings; some people are obsessed with money; some people are obsessed with power; some people are obsessed with freedom, and when we are obsessed, we are actually Don Quixote.
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Author @ Tiantangkou Old Tea House