Beginning with 1995's Toy Story, Pixar has released more than 20 films, in which there are imaginations of the modern, postmodern, and futuristic worlds.
"Dream Quest" is about the splendor of death;
"Toy Story" and "Robot Wall-E" are about the future time and space;
Finding Nemo is about the modern world.
However, "Spiritual Journey" brings the audience a spiritual comfort about "migrant workers" on a cold winter day.
After the release of this animation, it achieved a good score of 9.1 points, but because of the scheduling and publicity, it did not continue the 1.23 billion box office miracle of "Dream Quest", which is a pity.
The rating is not worse than "Dream Quest", why is it 1.2 billion a week but not 100 million?
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The biggest feature of this film is that it pulls the audience back to the field from the future time and space.
The style of the film is no longer a colorful imaginary space, but focuses on the most ordinary and ordinary migrant workers.
The dim streets, the noisy city, the busy crowds running for their livelihoods, the cake shops next to the streets, and the falling leaves that float down constitute a realistic space full of life.
The protagonist is Joey, a black music teacher.
When people reach middle age, they can have a stable job, and supporting their families is the expectation of their families.
Joey's mother, like most people, feels that if her child is stable, has a career and has stable social security, it is already a good life.
Joey, on the other hand, has a dream of pursuing music and wanting to perform on stage.
Although he can't escape the greasy of middle-aged Fortune, he can prepare a clean and tidy suit for the performance, and don't forget to ask Tony to make a look.
And when it seemed that everything was going to "get better", he fell into the sewer and "died".
When he woke up, he became a lonely soul, and also entered the YOU seminar and met all kinds of souls.
Here, Joey needs to return to the human world with Soul 22 and find his own "spark" before he can reach the other side of life.
Unlike Joey, 22 has lived for thousands of years, but because she hates human beings, she has not yet found her "passport" to the earth.
The two work together, and in the process of leading to the world, they gradually find a spark and become a real soul.
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The two protagonists in the story, one sunny and one with low self-esteem.
But it is like the two sides of a coin, representing human nature.
Between life and death, everyone flips back and forth between these two aspects.
In the impression of many people, 22 is an extremely closed, fearful, paranoid soul, but it is a side that everyone has.
Desperately trying to find their own "spark", but once lost themselves.
Don't you know that a real spark is not a goal?
Instead, in the process of pursuit, the drinks in the train trash cans, the roadside stalls with delicious pizzas, the street performers on the side of the road, the loving tailoring of the mother, these things that make it fascinated, are her "sparks".
Seemingly ordinary, in fact, this is the essence of life.
After watching the movie, a netizen issued such an exclamation: "2020 is almost over, and I have not yet found a passport to the earth."
The reason why the film can resonate with the audience is precisely because of the eloquent and engaging narrative.
Pixar is always able to find the softest nerve in the audience's heart.
In the last two days of 2020, I cried for my grandfather.
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After the release of the movie, the praise was overwhelming, and on the three platforms of Douban, Maoyan and Taoyuan, the rating exceeded 9 points, ranking first in the word of mouth of the New Year file.
However, it did not usher in a schedule equal to its reputation.
The 2.7-point row on the first day was less than a fraction of the new film in the same period, although in the fermentation of word of mouth, the row of slices improved slightly, but it did not exceed 10%.
Coupled with the lack of publicity, many viewers did not even know the release of this movie.
Apart from the many big V tap water Amway with a conscience, there is hardly any other news to be seen.
In the comments section, a netizen said something like this:
"A film with a high probability of winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature/Best Original Score; a disney Pixar near-perfect score; a studio that produces 23 feature-length animated films and wins 10 Oscars; 2% of the scheduled films"
As you can see, netizens are extremely angry about the scheduling.
A good movie requires a good schedule and box office.
However, for many domestic audiences, they have not developed the habit of watching movies regularly.
In 2019, the annual box office of China's film industry was only 64.27 billion yuan, and in 2020, it will be greatly discounted by the impact of the epidemic.
And other industries do not say, the bath industry alone, there is a market volume of more than 500 billion.
Therefore, word of mouth also needs time for good content to pass the test of the market, otherwise it is only a three-day tour.
Expect box office counterattacks.