The style of French animation has always been unique in the world, fantasy imagination, rich cultural connotation and unique aesthetic pursuit, the combination of these elements of French animation can often be particularly eye-catching in the storyline and ideological connotation, and these are the United States as the representative of the fast food large-scale animation is lacking, of course, the ideological and aesthetic elevation means that you can not blindly please the audience, the box office dismal is almost inevitable. From "Crazy Dating Mirador" to "Beloved Van Gogh" released last year, we can get a rough idea of the unique charm of French animation through these two animations alone, but the French film I want to talk about today combines the strange imagination of "Crazy Dating Mirador" and the Impressionist oil painting style in "Beloved Van Gogh". It is the Land of Painting.
The story told in "The Land of Painting" is very imaginative, and the characters in a group of oil paintings can not only speak and think like people, but also establish a hierarchy like humans, and even run from the world of one oil painting to the world of another oil painting, which conveys the doubts and thoughts about the existence of the self and the existence of the whole world. In addition, the picture of the film is almost always composed of oil paintings, and the tone of the film always changes accordingly with the advancement of the plot, which is a good reflection of the story atmosphere.
The film begins in a cold and thick oil painting, the characters and the environment in the oil painting are almost all black and blue, and because of the difference between the whole person, the unfinished person and the line writer, the painter regards himself as a higher existence, not only does not let the unfinished people and the line writers integrate into their own circles, but even drives them out of the castle, and the unfinished people put their hopes on the painter, hoping that he can come back to paint these unfinished figures, but when this waiting will be unknown. People are inherently equal to each other, the concept of "superiority" is originally imposed by some minorities on others with the social resources they have accumulated, blindly changing themselves to become like others can not really achieve equality, the concept of eliminating hierarchy and discrimination is the correct way to achieve equality. Before the end of the film, Rameau and Lola and their party bring the paint back to the world of oil painting, and the differences between all people are eliminated, and the hierarchical society immediately falls apart, but such idealism cannot achieve equality in reality, and it is easy to eliminate the differences between people.
The structural layers of the film are clear, breaking through the world that the audience presets for the characters in the play again and again, from the initial oil painting world, to the painter's room in the real world, to the back and forth of several oil painting worlds, and the picture frame that appears after Lola says goodbye to the painter at the end of the film. The oil painting characters in the film have experienced one breakthrough after another to themselves and the world in which they live, and we have gradually shifted from focusing on the film to ourselves in this breakthrough, and at the end, Lola says to the real painter" "I want to know who painted you", which is both about the painter in the movie and about us sitting in front of the screen watching the movie.
Doubts and explorations of one's own existence and the existence of the world should never cease.