Author|Xie Minghong
Editor|Li Chunhui
The box office of "What Life Do You Want to Live" exceeded many people's expectations. It also surpassed its domestic box office in Japan ($60 million), making Chinese mainland the film's largest box office in the world ($74 million). surpassed "Spirited Away", making it the highest-grossing Hayao Miyazaki film in Chinese mainland, and even took the entire Qingming file to break the box office record.
This makes "why the film is such a blockbuster" and "what story it tells" is just as important. At least in the eyes of Hard Candy Jun, this title is a great credit.
83-year-old Hayao Miyazaki, on the Qingming Festival, with the slogan "Life Movie, Farewell Work", asked loudly: What kind of life do you want to live. This is simply a precise trap for those Chinese of us who are cautious and chase the future, respect the elderly, and are often in a period of confusion in life. Even the Oscar for Best Animated Feature can only be regarded as an embellishment.
Translated as "Heron and the Boy" by Hong Kong and Taiwan, although the literature and art are fresh, it is easy for people to misunderstand it as Makoto Shinkai's new film. That's the puppy love that Makoto Shinkai likes, and it has long been criticized by the masses for a little lack of pattern. When Miyazaki was young, he joined the Japanese Communist Party, a standard left-wing youth with a deep love for the land and a sense of mission in life. And when Makoto Shinkai was young, he was watching Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky". He and them, growing painfully in ordinary life, waiting for healing, longing to be loved, seeking recognition.
Therefore, the 80-year-old Miyazaki is suitable for thinking about life, and the 50-year-old Makoto Shinkai is suitable for mourning youth. If you turn it upside down, there will be a lot fewer believers on both sides.
"What kind of life do you want to live" can only be achieved with the 83-year-old Hayao Miyazaki. If you are any director, you will come and teach me how to do things.
Under the shocking and straightforward theme, the puzzle-solving interaction triggers the long-tail effect of the movie. If you don't understand, let's talk about it, if you can understand it, show off it, and if others can't understand it, I'll take a look. What do you see? Everything in life is concentrated in the present moment, the ring Sumeru, whether it is momentary or more confused, depending on the personal comprehension of creation.
Unintelligible benefits
Chinese, who are accustomed to internal attrition, have been doing reading comprehension all their lives. "What kind of life do you want to live" swept the Qingming file this time, which triggered the audience's problem-solving mechanism. Just as the test paper does not allow blank space, there can be no metaphor in the movie that cannot be cracked.
When Hard Candy Jun watched the end credits, the girl next to her said to her boyfriend: "I don't understand it, let's find a secret to see!" Needless to say, when she opened the short video or public account, the title she saw must be "25 Things You Need to Know Before Watching "You Want"", "12 Detailed Metaphors, Help You Understand Miyazaki", "Four Keywords Analysis of Miyazaki's Farewell Work".
It can be said that not being able to understand definitely has the advantage of not being able to understand. Just like the puzzle-solving pleasure brought by Nolan's "puzzle narrative", this time "What kind of life do you want to live" also triggered the interactive communication of fans because of various bizarre imagery, creating a lot of topics. The part of the narrative that Miyazaki abandons is filled in by an active audience.
The theme of anti-war is still obvious, and the story begins with the bombing of Tokyo and the death of the male protagonist's mother, Hisako, in the sea of fire. His father's small factory moved to the countryside and married his sister-in-law Natsuko as a continuation. This year is the 12th year of the dazzling Showa. Open it with our own memory, that is, "The Eighth Route Army Pulls the Big Bolt": "In 1937, the devil entered the Central Plains!"
The father of the real person once showed off to his son the airplane shell produced in the factory, which actually reflected the cunning rabbit hole of the Japanese back then. All the military industry was dispersed to the countryside to be dismantled and produced into parts, making it difficult for the rice people to bomb the big cities to work. It's obviously a killing machine, but the real person's father is as proud as he is showing off his figure.
As for the wah-la-wah that represents the undead, it looks like the "osmanthus wine stuffed cheese bun" without osmanthus version, and QQ pinching makes people want to rub it. The way they go out collectively is similar to the coal ghost in "My Neighbor Totoro". Budgies are the representatives of German fascism, because the sign they hold up when they parade through the streets says "Duch", which is only one T different from "Dutch". Deutsche can be used to refer to Germans, and American slang is like to pronounce Dutch.
The flying eagle logo sketched vaguely with a few strokes is even more real, so the parrot king with a mustache and a crown who often looks at all directions should be the famous art student who failed to make the list. The parrot that walks right, shouts slogans, and eats when it catches people is the embodiment of fascism's evil.
The pelican could not eat fish and could only feed its stomach by devouring wala-wa-wa-la, presumably symbolizing the ordinary soldiers who were forced to serve militarism. Some viewers believe that Pelican's statement that the sea water is polluted refers to Japan's discharge of nuclear wastewater, which seems to be in line with Miyazaki's consistent environmental protection philosophy.
The relationship between the real uncle and the parrot king in the film is intriguing. The Parrot King has the behavior of reporting to his uncle, but he also flips the table because he is not satisfied with his arrangements for the world order. This is very similar to the relationship between the Japanese government and the militarist forces in the 20s, and the rise of the militarist forces gradually brought the country under the war system.
In short, all kinds of political mysteries are closely related to the past and present of our Chinese, and it is no wonder that everyone is so energetic.
The story of your life
Like "N places you must go to in your life", "N things you regret the most when you get old" is also a popular writing routine, and just like Hayao Miyazaki's "Life Movie, Farewell Work", it seems to inspire life even more.
In the description of Australian female writers, the five things that people regret the most are: I wish I had the courage to live the life I really want, I hope I didn't work so hard before, I hope I have enough courage to express my feelings, I hope I can keep in touch with my friends all the time, and I hope I have made myself a happy person. The Japanese are more trivial, and have summarized 25 points, including not meeting the people they want to meet and not saying thank you to the people they love.
Judging from "What kind of life do you want to live", Miyazaki should feel the same way. Inadvertently, we and many people have already seen the last side of our lives. Hard Candy Jun's friend in elementary school, I haven't seen each other for a few years because of the transfer of schools, and I met again when I returned to my hometown when I was in junior high school. At that time, I had made an appointment to play together in the afternoon, but I was hurriedly dragged into the car by my family at noon. I wanted to say goodbye, but the adults only comforted: "What to play, I'll play later." ”
The moving hair is small, the "one-day playmate" who did not leave contact information, and the girlfriend who said that he would care for the elderly together but lost contact with him in middle school. A lot of times, friends are one-on-one. Just like Lu Xun returned to Shaoxing, Runtu had already called him "master".
For Miyazaki, "What kind of life do you want to live" is like a flash of life. Real people keep meeting new people and saying goodbye to them all the time. Separation, there is still the possibility of goodbye in the past Miyazaki movies, just like Hard Candy-kun has always believed that Chihiro Ogino will see the white dragon boy again. In "You Think", you can obviously feel a lingering sadness and a rather ceremonial "farewell".
People are old and affectionate, probably people of this age. They know too well the impermanence of life, and they also know too well the loneliness of the final chapter of the song. In the great pain of his mother's death, he met Uncle Heron, who often sheds his feathers, met the younger version of his servant, the old lady Kiriko, met his mother Hisako, a young and brave girlhood, and met his uncle who built a mysterious tower in legend......
The inside and outside of the door are two worlds for the teenager. The heron running the train outside the door is very playful and cute inside the door. The fog of the old dragon clock outside the door, you can ride the wind and waves inside the door. Outside the door, the mother died in the fire, but inside the door is a woman who uses fire as a weapon. They all live a life of recklessness, and it also inspires the young man to think about what kind of life he should live.
When saying goodbye to Kiriko, the other party gave him a statue of a doll. When announcing goodbye to his uncle, the real person picked up a building block that had not been maliciously defiled. When he said goodbye to his mother, Hisako, he completed the reconciliation of the loss of his mother. As the words in the original book "What kind of life do you want to live": "No matter how cruel the times are, we must live like a real person." ”
In 1937, when the book was published, Mussolini and Hitler were already praised as heroes in Japanese juvenile books. Yamamoto Yuzo, who has a liberal stance, wanted to protect the ideas of the next generation, and he published the last volume of the series for the young people.
Hayao Miyazaki also shows the same message in the movie, and the words on the golden tomb door "Those who learn from me die" probably originate from the Tang dynasty Li Yong's "Those who look like me are vulgar, and those who learn from me die". In a word, living the same life as others is a "second-hand life", which is not only vulgar but also basically equivalent to living in vain.
Stand on the edge of life
Before the execution, Jin Shengsian told his wife and children: "Peanuts and dried tofu are chewed together, which has the taste of ham." It wasn't probably an earth-shattering recipe, but it was just something he wanted to share in the last moments of his life.
Through "What kind of life do you want to live", Miyazaki may not want to teach him a philosophy of life that he has not figured out for 80 years. I just want to say goodbye with this work.,By the way, ask old fans:I lived such a life?It's the life of a bad old man who is so busy and loves animation.,You can make a reference.,And then live your own life.。
In the documentary "2399 Days with Hayao Miyazaki and Ghibli", a large part of the "sadomasochism" between Hayao Miyazaki and his friend Isao Takahata fell in love and killed each other. Because of the death of Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki, who had already announced his retirement, withdrew his "retirement notice". Eventually, he created a real uncle based on Takahata and asked him to build blocks in his own world. And the producer Toshio Suzuki was painted by Hayao Miyazaki as a slightly obscene uncle heron, with a strange nose and eyes exposed under the giant beak.
But it doesn't matter, how unbearable the heron is in the movie, and how bold Suzuki's revelations are in reality. According to Suzuki, Miyazaki would secretly imitate Takahata's handwriting, "Fascinated and respected him to such an extent!" Takahata was optimistic about Kondo Yoshifumi, and Miyazaki even cried to Suzuki in the tavern: "I, ah, have dedicated my youth to Paku-san for 15 years, but I have not received anything in return." ”
Just looking at these Japanese-style ambiguous words, Hard Candy Jun has already made up the big drama of the Three Musketeers "I love you, you love him, he loves me". The real tears were that once Miyazaki lost his eraser, and he was so anxious to look upstairs and downstairs everywhere, and kept muttering, "It must have been taken by Pakusa, give it back to me!" and what stabbed me was that it had been eight months since Paku-san died. It turns out that friends have been planted in Miyazaki's heart as a physical intuition.
In 1910, the last year of Tolstoy's life, he continued to keep a diary every day. I want to revise my previous writings, debate with readers, and even go to China when I feel better. The high-frequency word is a slightly ridiculous "still alive", and the high-frequency event is a conflict with his wife. One day, he suddenly wrote, "The so-called love is to know oneself in all phenomena."
This can probably be placed on the poster of "What kind of life do you want to live". In the twilight of life, the most regrettable and cherished thing is probably all kinds of "love" and "regret". Zhang Dai counted his hobbies in his early years and the downfall of his later years on the tombstone, and even the "good prostitution" was not hidden. In his later years, Goethe was "old and self-respecting", and in his poems he frantically stated his love for girls who were fifty years apart. Love ends without a problem, and the elderly Werther is not chic.
Miyazaki's farewell work may not be able to catch up with the artistic quality of the golden age, but it falls on the word "farewell". He must know what to do with a really simple animation, but this time for the sake of his friends and for himself, he chose to be willful. There is no answer, it is the standard answer, and your life is only up to you.
can't help but think of the ending of Mingyue to "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", "The reason why I wrote Xu Xiake is to tell you that the so-called century-old fame, thousands of years of hegemony, and eternal prosperity are actually nothing compared to one thing." It's all about living your life the way you love. ”