I Lost My Body is a realistic French animation. The protagonist of the story is a hand that inserts flashbacks and the common memory of the master in the process of constantly searching for the master. Among them, the memory director of childhood uses black and white tones, and when he grows up, he uses color tones, and the two are used as a distinction so that the audience can understand them.
At the beginning of the film, a broken hand escapes from the refrigerator, and there is an eyeball that falls to the ground with the broken hand, and when the eyeball looks around, it is kicked and exploded. At this moment, a strange atmosphere pervaded.
In this plot, the director looks at the surrounding environment from the perspective of a broken hand, walks with his fingers, looks at the road with his wrist, and occasionally sits in the window and looks into the distance, which is obviously an anthropomorphic expression, and the director wants to show a hand that only thinks and decides, so it is very real.
In this way, the adventure of a broken hand begins: falling into the garbage can, climbing the sewer, taking the vent, hiding in the east, being bitten by a rat, falling into an ice cave, jumping off a building, after all kinds of hardships, in order to become one with the master.
When the broken hand jumps down from the window, the camera cuts to the time when the owner is holding the floor with his hand when he was a child; when the broken hand is hidden under the car and speeding forward, the camera cuts to the owner riding with his hand holding the motorcycle; when the broken hand sees a toy car that falls to the ground, the camera cuts to the moment when the owner encounters a car accident.
Whenever the broken hand sees a familiar picture, it will remind it of the time with the owner, and the director uses the editing method to present the emotions of people and hands to the audience.
Not only the editing, but also the sound is carefully designed. The protagonist has loved recording since he was a child and dreams of becoming a pianist and his mother is a cellist. The heroine's headphones and the walkie-talkie in front of the heroine's door are also one of the most important clues of the story.
If you listen closely, you will find that every time the film enters a clip, there is always a sound before the picture is revealed.
The hum of flies, the sound of a broken hand hitting the refrigerator, the sound of the wind, the sound of rain, the sound of snow, etc., are all hints of emotional expression, as if hearing music can feel the mood of the protagonist at this moment.
Flies are a metaphor for the unfortunate tragedies of life, a kind of dross that cannot be driven away. At the beginning of the film, the protagonist asks dad a question: How can I catch a fly?
Dad replied: You have to predict where it may fall next and catch it. The protagonist tries many times in the beginning, but the only time he catches it, but he pays a terrible price (the hand is cut off by the machine, which is the origin of the broken hand), and the fly eventually escapes the palm of his hand. The moral tragedy cannot be predicted, fate cannot be changed, and all we can do is accept it and live with it.
The broken hand is a metaphor for the protagonist himself, and it strives to pursue the body of the master, in a sense, it hopes to return to the original beauty and make up for the shortcomings of the year.
In the flashback, we learn that the protagonist once had a happy family when he was a child, but he fell apart due to a car accident. When I grew up, I fell in love with a girl, but I still failed. All kinds of misfortunes make the protagonist nostalgic for the past and cannot be let go.
When the film ends, the broken hand finally returns to the owner, but cannot connect himself with the master. At this time, the broken hand understands that loss is lost, can no longer be recovered, rather than connecting, sharing memories and witnessing the owner's continued progress may be a better choice.
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