Speaking of "Ulysses", the author Joyce once described it in eight words -
"Nagging, all-encompassing."
This milestone in literary history has been talked about and read less.
The first reason for the reader's daunting is naturally its well-known stream-of-consciousness technique.
However, as Joyce himself said, there is nothing difficult or obscure about the book except nagging.
It's like a stream-of-consciousness hot pot, boiling everything you want without choice.
As long as you are willing to read for a while, you will always inadvertently find one or two places that make you particularly moved.
Every sentence of this strange book seems to be disorderly, but it is almost all about the living conditions of people, and it is the real life experience of individuals.
Perhaps because of this, it has always been young and inspired generations of creators.
Nearly a hundred years later, the water-drifting stones thrown by Joyce once again struck a pleasing splash.
This time, there's no reason to be intimidated anymore —
"Spring is short, the girl is moving forward!" 》
Yes, this is an island animation.
Douban is currently 8.9.
Like Ulysses, the film doesn't tell a story at all.
Joyce's novel is about a middle-aged man and a young man who see, smell, think, and think in twenty-four hours.
The cartoon is divided into four chapters about a young girl's magical encounter one night.
If you want to describe these encounters, the most appropriate one is Joyce's eight words -
They're all the product of the creator's whimsy—
There is no necessity, and there is little strict logical relationship between each other.
Although the girl wears the aura of the protagonist, it seems that most of the time, she stands outside the whole world.
She appears as an outsider and breaks into the world of others by accident.
Subsequently, and purely out of luck, she occupied the center of some of the whirlpools of events.
All these events, one more than one whimsical, but also more boring than the other.
Let's take the first chapter alone.
The first chapter tells the story of a young girl searching for a "pseudo-electric brandy".
Pseudo-electric brandy is a mysterious liquor.
Saying that she was looking, she did not take the initiative to do anything herself, but she happened to drink this wine in the end.
At first, the girl goes to the wedding of a girl named Naoko.
At this time, she had only one goal, which was to drink alcohol and enter the seductive adult world.
However, because the whole table was drinking, she had to put away her desires.
After the feast, the girl ran straight into a bar.
Here, she meets Naoko's father, Mr. Todo.
When Pingshui met, Mr. Dongtang used the topic of wine as a guide and talked to the young girl.
He first made a popular science to the girl, telling her what a pseudo-electric brand was, which aroused the girl's curiosity.
Then he cried about how bad his relationship with his daughter was and didn't go to her wedding.
Then he encourages the girl to seek the happiness that belongs to her own heart.
Finally, he attacked the girl's chest.
The girl unleashed a "friend punch" that knocked Mr. Dongtang to the ground.
The movie then flashes back to when her mother was a child and taught her teenage friend to punch.
She told the maiden that in this world, there are more fools and villains, and fewer saints and gentlemen.
The so-called friend fist, that is, holding the thumb with four fingers, has a sense of pity when it is played like a cat.
After being punched, the person who was beaten could not bear to take revenge even if he hated it in every way.
In this way, the vicious circle of countering violence with violence can be broken.
The other two guests in the bar, Jun Higuchi and Miss Habuki, appeared behind the girl.
They also briefed the girls on some of Mr. Dongtang's situation.
He joined an organization called the "Boudoir Investigation Group" and went around collecting pictures of the Spring Palace.
Lately, he has been unable to do business and is living a hard life with a bunch of debts.
The creditor, named Li Bai, took an extremely gorgeous exclusive three-story tram every time he appeared.
Li Bai there, it is said that there are a lot of pseudo-electric white orchids.
After the introduction, Higuchi Jun and Miss Hakukan decided to take the girl to the street to drink.
The first place they mixed in was a place called the "Sophistry Department."
This is actually a send-off party for a man who decides to study abroad because of his unsuccessful pursuit of Naoko.
Everyone at this cocktail party was debating with each other.
Thesis, there is -
"Effort is important or talent is important."
"I'm not a trustworthy person."
"Should I marry someone I love or someone I don't love?"
The man who wants to save Naoko is chattering about trying to prove that he should marry someone he doesn't love.
Because marrying someone you love will make a person lose his rationality.
And if you marry someone you don't love, you can make rational choices.
This cocktail party culminates in an ugly "sophistry dance" danced by people, and the girls join the dancing ranks.
Then, she and Higuchi Jun and Miss Hakusan rushed to the next cocktail party.
It was a gathering of the elderly.
The owner of the reception is the father of Naoko's husband.
All the elderly people attending the meeting looked like they were twilight and exchanged their understanding of the shortness of life.
"Life is like a white colt crossing a gap."
"What is life?"
"Life is human life."
"Then, you will die at the end of your life."
"Wrong, after life is called death."
We often say that the older people get, the faster time passes.
The film then designed a symbolic scene.
The young people who broke into the cocktail party compared the watches in their hands with the old people present.
The hands on the watches of the elderly are much faster than those of the young, and the older they are, the faster they turn.
The girl drank high, and then suddenly she danced the sophistry dance again.
She suddenly reminded the old people of the passionate youth.
Everyone danced with her.
In addition, everyone also unanimously felt that the amount of alcohol consumed by the girl was amazing, and encouraged her to fight with Li Bai.
They walked down the street together and called out to Li Bai to come out.
Here, the film somehow appropriates a mythical tone, exaggerating the story —
"In this way, they were looking for Li Bai while making a fortune in the wooden house town, and there were giants who were more than 6 meters tall and seemed to be wearing tattered yukata..."
Then, Li Bai came on his three-story tram.
However, he was not summoned by people, but came to Mr. Dongtang to violently claim debts.
At the moment of danger, the girl descended from the sky to stop Li Bai from committing violence.
Mr. Dong tang was greatly puzzled by this, because he was a rogue who had attacked the girl's chest.
The girl said that although Mr. Dongtang had attacked her chest, he had also taught her a wonderful outlook on life.
She challenged Li Bai to fight with him, and Li Bai accepted the challenge.
He took out the precious pseudo-electric brand and dueled with the girl.
On the surface, it is a fight for wine, but in fact, it is a fight for a view of life.
Li Bai drank and drank vainly, and the girl drank out of abundance;
Li Bai feels that life is seized and painful, and the girl feels that life is sharing and joy;
Li Bai drank because she was lonely, but the girl believed that she was guided by fate.
Finally, Li Bai fell.
The girl successfully helped Mr. Dongtang get rid of her debts and completed her journey in the first chapter.
The above content takes place in the first 25 minutes of the movie.
These 25 minutes, on the plot, arbitrarily, freely, on the form, ever-changing, no scruples.
And it's hard to believe that in just 25 minutes, such a large amount of information can be presented.
How do you categorize this information? In addition to "all-encompassing", can you find more appropriate words to summarize them?
Here, there is the sympathetic dilemma of life of the Pingshui encounter;
There is thinking about the entire human situation: time is like an arrow, and time is like a shuttle;
There are all kinds of philosophical debates, from the concept of life and values to the concept of marriage and drinking;
There is a perception of society and human nature, and there is a mother's teaching to her children;
There are also unruly, vulgar jokes: the boudoir investigation team that collects the Spring Palace map, the chest attack.
These contents, chaotic and irrelevant, are presented in such a straightforward and crude way that they seem to have given up the purpose of empathy.
However, even its fleeting scraps can still hit our pain points.
For example, whether to marry someone you love or someone you don't love, everyone gets a headache about this question.
For another example, the collection of spring palace diagrams, although it is a joke, but it involves the most original desires in the hearts of men.
Can it also be said that they are scraps?
Rather, this is a movie that is off-topic all the time, but because it runs so hard, every off-topic has become the right topic.
Even if it is off-topic, it is also based on serious observation and understanding of life.
What is particularly valuable is that although this film has no lack of Upanishads, it does not make us feel preachy at all.
The creators' endless praise of optimistic girls did not prevent them from sympathizing with the pessimistic Li Bai.
For life, "Spring is short, the girl is moving forward!" it is not intended to issue a set of standard answers.
It simply expresses the same confusion of the creators as we do, and at the same time, tries to evoke our passion for life.
Text | Sweet Uncle