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"One Finger City" is an animated short film, a 2015 graduation work of the animation major of the Communication University of China.
The short film revolves around the themes of the environment, perseverance and faith, and through a grandmother who seems to be the only one in the city who has faith, she reveals the deep meaning of the urbanization of lost faith and the possibility of disaster at any time.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > story composition</h1>
The entire anime is 9 minutes long and can be divided into 3 parts.
▲ Part 1: Show the state of life
Towering city tall buildings, like a finger shape, look precarious; the sky is full of gray polluting gases, covering the whole city, there is a feeling of breathlessness; the grandmother who insists on sticking to the cracks of many fingertip-like cities, although she is unable to withstand the intrusion of rubble falling from the sky every day, still insists on cleaning the yard every day, planting flowers and plants, burning incense and worshiping Buddha in order to keep the house where she has lived for many years; the mobile vendor uncle on the old street is also a sticking member of the city Everyone in the film wears a hard hat when traveling to prevent construction waste and household garbage from falling at any time.
▲Part 2: The contradiction intensifies
The increasingly serious drop of construction waste and household garbage has begun to seriously affect the lives of grandmothers and uncles who stick to the old street. The house where the grandmother lived began to become a dangerous house, and she was forced to move out. When she moved away, the grandmother not only took away her belongings, but also took away the old trees in the yard, and did not forget to put on a hard hat on the Buddha statue before leaving. But as soon as the wind blew, the shed sheltered by the Buddha statue was blown over. In desperation, I had to start digging and wanted to take the Buddha statue with me. What she did not expect was that there were even larger Buddha statues under the Buddha statues.
▲Part Three: Ending
The Buddha statue is a symbol of the grandmother's faith and is forever left in the old house.
Losing the Buddha statue protected by the grandmother, one day the finger was smashed by the heavenly plate, followed by the collapse of the "One Finger City".
The grandmother, who happened to be on the edge of the cliff, escaped the disaster of collapse. The final picture of the ending, staying in the comfortable time when the grandmother is sleeping in the car with the birds.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > works analysis</h1>
1. Theme selection
In order to pursue rapid economic growth, the pace of urbanization has kept pace with it, and high-rise buildings have been erected overnight, and infrastructure has been overhauled. Urbanization is an inevitable consequence, but because of the fearlessness of the natural environment, it pollutes the environment. People see only immediate interests, lost faith, unsustainable development in the end, are digging their own graves.
In this context of over-urbanization, this work was born.
2. Plot implications
▲ Episode 1: Towering city tall buildings like fingertips
Without the support of infrastructure, blindly knowing that the continuous superposition of building floors is doomed to the tragic end of "one finger city" that cannot escape.
▲ Episode 2: The fingertips of the Buddha statue point to the sky
The Buddha statue that Grandma enshrines every day is the only symbol of faith in the whole city. The fingertips of the Buddha statue point to the sky, suggesting that there are "three feet of gods" above the head, and that people cannot lose faith, and without faith, people will be fearless when they do things, and in the end they will evolve into doing whatever they want.
▲ Episode Three: People surviving in the cracks
As the people's representatives who survive in the cracks of urbanization, the uncle and grandmother of the vendors are deeply harassed by the flying sand and stones.
Know in time that the environment here is not suitable for you, but still choose to stick to it, not for anything else, one is to live, and the other is to keep your home for the rest of your life. Yet the results were cruel, and the forces of over-urbanization never treated anyone gently. The figure of the vendor's uncle is gone, and the grandmother is forced to leave the old house.
▲ Episode 4: The Buddha statue broke its finger and the city also fell
The finger of the Buddha statue was smashed from the sky by the garbage of urbanization, the plate, and one of the fingers of the Buddha statue was smashed from the sky, and at the same time, the towering floor was also "cut off".
The Buddha statue with the broken finger implies that people have lost faith. And what are the consequences of losing faith? The fearlessness after the loss of faith invisibly brought disaster and responded to the words of digging one's own grave.
▲ Episode Five: The only grandmother with faith survives
What saved Grandma? It is faith, it is reverence for nature.
This plot warns people not to lose their faith, and once they lose faith, it will be like a flood of beasts, and one day it will devour you and me.
3. Picture style
In order to reflect the drawbacks of over-urbanization, the colors in the entire animated short film use dark tones of gray tones, which reveal that over-urbanization is an act of losing faith, which not only pollutes the environment, but also forcibly changes people's lifestyles (wearing hard hats and going out), and does not allow the elderly to fall back to the roots, until finally after excessive construction, the city dies out due to quality problems.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > animation and reality</h1>
Art comes from life and is higher than life.
Animated short films based on life can always strike at the heart.
After watching this animated short film, I was vaguely worried about the consequences of the current over-urbanization. I don't know when, the road I walked every day was always being repaired and demolished, demolished and repaired, the road was filled with smoke and dust, people could not avoid it; in the case of torrential rain, especially in recent years, no completely urbanized city could avoid the result of flooding; from time to time there was news of the serious collapse of a certain road, looking at the huge pits of the road, people with abyss fear would think: Will this be my future grave?
In reality, the road has a large pit of depression
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > analysis summary</h1>
Urbanization has become the inevitable path to development, but this is not an excuse for over-urbanization.
In order to prevent excessive urbanization, people should be afraid, fearful of nature, and should have their own faith.
Your beliefs are not necessarily Buddhas, but can be sustainable blue sky green ideas.
After having faith, only then will people not lose themselves, will they be afraid, they will not dig their own graves, and only in the result of limited urbanization can they create a tomorrow that belongs to future generations.
Ask me more, what is your belief?
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