Many times when we mention Japanese animated films, everyone thinks of Hayao Miyazaki's warmth and romance. However, japanese animated films also have animation films that put aside romance and use realistic techniques to express human nature. "Kappa Summer" is one such work.
"Kappa Summer" is an animated film that tells the story of "Little Cool", the son of a kappa, who has awakened in modern society, and the friendship between the teenager Koichi Uehara, as well as the various things encountered and the story of human beings. Won the 31st Japan Academy Awards for Outstanding Work in the Animation Department. In this animated film, humans and monsters, who are really innocent and who are falsely kind, the distortion of human nature, is nakedly presented.
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In the story, Yasuichi Uehara is an ordinary fifth-grade elementary school student, and on the way out of school, his shoes accidentally fell into the water, so he accidentally picked up the little kappa Xiaoku.
Xiao Ku is a small kappa that existed two hundred years ago, because of the great earthquake, was locked in a stone, and was fortunate to live to this day. It can be said that Xiao Ku is a small monster, but he does not have any mana, just has a keen intuition, can talk to animals, and is good at sumo wrestling and swimming.
That is to say, this little monster, in addition to looking different from humans, will not pose any threat to humans. Xiao Ku is still a small monster, just like a human child, innocent and cute, with strong curiosity and very polite.
But his identity was the reason for humanity to reject them, and two hundred years ago, humanity had reached the point of exterminating this species that posed no threat to the human world. If Xiao Ku was not sealed in the stone, he could not escape by chance.
So when the news that the Kang family had a little kappa did not go away. People's eagerness for this matter is beyond the imagination of the Kang family. Kang Yi's father's company put pressure on Kang Yi's father to let the little kappa appear on TV and give interviews.
The family's life is in trouble, and the sensible little kappa looks at it in his eyes, and finally agrees to go to TV for the Sake of the Kang family. From this time on, the will of the little kappa, whether he is willing to go on TV, whether he is willing to appear in a crowded place, whether he can adapt to human society.
It is no longer something that his will can decide, people only care whether he can get the news and get the most benefits. No one cares how Kappa really feels.
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At this point in the story, the fate of the little kappa has been firmly grasped in people's hands. People admire him as an outlier, a commodity that can be exchanged for huge profits. Because the commodity itself is used and appreciated by people. Therefore, the tragic end of the little kappa is also portrayed at this time.
In the story, the little kappa appears in the public eye and suddenly sees the descendants of the samurai who killed his father. Painful memories were unsealed, and the fear of his father being killed made him lose his mind and just wanted to find a place where no one was hiding. But even such a space, people did not give him.
Returning to the beginning of the movie, it is a dark samurai who hacks the kappa's father to death with a knife and frantically runs to the little kappa. The samurai's vicious face was like a demon running out of hell, without a hint of blood. It was as indifferent as crushing an ant to the death of a kappa.
Human beings are the most cold-blooded executioners, no one dares to kill species that dare not eat, as long as it is a living thing, people dare to eat. From scorpions to sharks, people are at the top of the food chain, such dominance. Let humans always look high on other species. Their lives and deaths are insignificant, and this is the most terrifying face of mankind.
Sometimes, people are more terrifying than monsters, how terrible things can be done, in the face of huge profits, conscience is not worth much. This is the law of human survival, and it is possible to give up everything for the sake of profit, not to mention a small kappa.
Human greed makes a lot of the original beauty disappear little by little in front of their own eyes, and human beings have no self-reflection, only the ugly face of interest.
For the sake of the kang family's life, the little kappa plucked up the courage to sacrifice himself and walked in front of the public. How can human beings have such innocence and kindness? Demons are divided into good and evil, and people are divided into three, six, nine, and so on, not in a world of black and white. What humans seem to be smart but are actually stupid is not as clear as the simple and pure mind of a monster.
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Since the beginning of human domination of the entire earth, it has been constantly opening up territory and expanding the territory of human life. Many of the pure water sources that originally belonged to kappa were forcibly occupied by humans and built high-rise buildings. But humanity is still not satisfied.
In the movie, Kappa recalls a passage his father once said that humans have taken away the ponds and swamps in which we live, then the wind, and the sky. Gradually, they took possession of the gods' places for themselves, and as a price, they all began to lose their feelings.
Such a passage of youkai's words exposes the essence of human greed, endless demand, so that the beautiful and clean place is lost forever. Everywhere there is a materialistic flow, and high-rise buildings with reinforced concrete structures are lined up.
Human beings do not have innocent and kind feelings, they are a walking corpse. What else is there to say about such a life. Is the life we pursue like that, emotionless days?
This animated film brings the audience a lot of points of thinking about life. The little kappa ended up at the mercy of humans, on a tower, looking at this strange city and looking for his father.
Such an ending made many viewers express regret, but this is the true portrayal of reality. It is the true face of human greed, satirizing reality and causing people to think deeply.
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