After watching "Totoro", it is difficult for me to imagine that there is another master who can be like Miyazaki, who has an innate soft heart, a subtle sense of sensitivity, and attaches various small details that poke the heart and lungs to the virtual characters, soaking people's hearts.
Until I discovered the treasure trove of Kappa's Summer. If totoro is healed because of its external image, then Kappa "Little Gollum" is healed under the strong impact of appearance and mind.
Kogu is a kappa from Japanese legend who grows the beak of a bird, the limbs of a frog, the body of a monkey, and the shell of a turtle, like a synthesis of many animals. He had a saucer-shaped plate above his head, and as long as the water in the plate ran out, he would lose all his energy.
This somewhat "ugly" animated image uses various body forms and a pair of big sparkling eyes to transmit energy to the audience.
Director Keiichi Hara is also the director of Crayon New Theater Edition: Battle of the Adult Empire. In this work, the three-minute condensed picture of Hiroshi Nohara's growth process made me feel Keiichi Hara's magical ability to "achieve healing in sorrow".
"Summer of Kappa", also known as "Summer Time with Kappa Kogu", tells the story of kappa Kogu, who originally lived with his father in the Edo period, fell into a stone crevice because of a major earthquake after his father was killed by humans. A hundred years later, Yasuichi Uehara found him and took him home. Since then, Gollum has been friendly with this kind human being. But Xiaogu's exposure attracted the chase of the media, and an accident evoked Xiaogu's horrific memories. Eventually, Gollum left the city and returned to his original life.
The sleeping kappa wakes up a hundred years later and finds that things have long been lost, and things are not human. The encounter with the Uehara family cannot erase the nostalgia caused by the changes of the times. Although Gollum tries his best to blend in with the hustle and bustle of the city, this is destined to be an encounter that will end in parting.
In this encounter, all three teenagers have achieved self-growth. By chance or by chance, Kappa Is like a teenager's dream in the summer. When we wake up from the dream, everything seems to be fake, but the energy gained in the dream will support us to keep moving forward.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Kappa: Am I adapting to the environment, or is the environment flooding me</h1>
If I stay here, I have to live in a human way. I will eventually die and go to the place where my ancestors stayed, and if I forget the Kappa lifestyle, I don't have a face to face everyone.
The little goo who broke out of the stone met the Uehara family, the mature and humorous father, the hard-working and capable mother, the naughty and wayward sister, and the Kang-yi who saved him home, making him think that he could really integrate into human beings and integrate into the modern city.
He deals with mankind with humility and courtesy, ignorance and sincerity. Hated by his sister or given her exquisite gems as gifts; chased by reporters to secretly shoot and asked to appear on camera, he also fully cooperated. The most he's said is: It's okay.
But does it really matter? There was no stream in the city, and he could only go out on a rainy night to feel the water; for he was an outlier, but wherever there were people he could only stay in his bag; he overcame his fear and agreed to go on television, only to see the so-called "collector" showing off his father's dry and severed arm.
Finally cornered by humans, Little Gollum climbed up the Tokyo Tower with his father's broken arm. There was a lot of traffic under his feet, but there was no place for him. He was determined to live and to stay away from humanity.
The truth from childhood to adulthood teaches us to adapt to the environment and change ourselves. But maybe sometimes you don't adapt to the environment, you just destroy your real self.
Psychologically speaking, de-individuation means that when the individual is in the crowd, the sense of personal awareness and understanding and evaluation is lost, and the individual's self-identity is replaced by the group's behavior and goal identification, resulting in people joining repetitive, impulsive, emotional, and sometimes destructive actions.
As Gollum says, if he chooses to stay, he must live in a human way in order to survive. Unconsciously, he will forget the nature of the kappa and become a "real human being".
This is a process of de-individuation. He could become as cruel as the samurai who killed his father; as greedy as the unscrupulous media that chased after him wildly. Then he will face his parents without a face and a human attitude.
Zheng Yuanjie said: It is the sadness of life that is born on this planet in a certain form, but the content is not like that form of life. Only when the content of life is consistent with the form of life, it is a splendid life.
Don't complain about the environment, and don't succumb to it. If integrating into an environment requires submerging yourself, prove that you should stay away from it. Xiao Gu grew up with the decision to leave resolutely.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Kikuchi: thinking that I am the most miserable is actually self-pity and self-pity</h1>
Kikuchi, like Xiaogu, is an "outlier" in everyone's eyes. Kogu is due to irreconcilable species problems and the environmental problems of the times, and Kikuchi is a personality problem caused by the family environment.
Kikuchi is alone in the class, and almost everyone hates him. Kang Yi was the only one who was willing to say two words to her. There is a small detail in the film: her shoes were kicked away by her classmates during swimming class, and two female classmates next to her wanted to scream for her. But she said: Forget it, I don't care.
I think that's the real reason why people stay away from Kikuchi. It wasn't that everyone had always hated her, but Kikuchi had closed the door to the outside world.
She put herself in the dark corner of the "victim". Because her parents are divorced, her classmates make fun of her; because she will still be bullied if she compromises and tolerates, so don't deal with anyone. Look, no one really wants to talk to me, and I'm the most pathetic.
This psychology of thinking that the whole world is the most miserable is actually a strong sense of insecurity caused by the self. Kikuchi's father had an affair and divorced his mother, and then his mother married his stepfather. Kikuchi, who is caught in the cracks, creates a strong sense of insecurity, thus forming a self-centered protective mechanism.
To put it simply, Kikuchi does not care about the living conditions of others, and whether others are miserable or happy has nothing to do with her. She focused only on herself, immersed in her own inner world. So whether someone else wants to help her or taunt her, she doesn't care. But in turn, I feel that I am in the most miserable emotions.
The only way out of the Möbius ring is to tear it apart. If he does not break through, Kikuchi will forever linger in his own world and will not reach the end.
Yasuichi and Kogu changed Kikuchi. Kang Yi liked to laugh at her and call her ugly like his classmates. But he will always be with her when he is crying, and he will always take the initiative to approach her when she writes "Don't come near anyone" on the door of her head.
Kangichi is also the one who knows Kikuchi best, so he takes Kogu to make friends with Kikuchi. A long conversation made Kikuchi suddenly enlightened, she always thought that she was in the center of the darkest vortex in the world, but she did not think that someone was simply wandering outside this world. Compared with Xiao Gu, she is not miserable at all. And even if Xiao Gu knows that there may only be one alien left in the world, he can talk and laugh and sing and sleep.
After sending Xiaogu away, she entered the door and threw away her stepfather's shoes, starting from expressing emotions and announcing her growth.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > innocent without knowing the world, letting go of the world, and parting is a compulsory course for growth</h1>
Why did Kang Yi adopt XiaoGu? In addition to the kind tutoring, it is more out of the innocence of youth. The first thing he thought of when he saw Gollum was fun, and he asked Mom and Dad to keep Gollum because they could "play together". If Xiao Gu opened his eyes and met Kang Yi as an adult, would he still be left behind by Kang Yi?
Through the perspective of the pet dog "Uncle", the film compares Kang Yi with the former owner of Uncle Da. Uncle Dae said that his former master was as kind as Kang Yi when he was a child, but after he was bullied in high school, he transferred his hatred to him. As soon as he got home, he was violent, punching and kicking him.
Kang Yi also went through the same test as the former owner of the "Great Uncle". Knowing that Xiaogu was asked to be on TV, Kang Yi forgot about Xiaogu's situation, and he jumped to his feet happily: "I can go on TV!" At this point, XiaoGu was still just his pet in Kang Yi's mind.
Later, XiaoGu found his father's broken arm in shock, and the whole scene was shattered. The screams and horrors of the people drowned out the faint cries of the little grunts. Kang Yi was stunned, and he was stunned in the same place, causing Uncle Da to die to protect Xiao Gu.
Xiao Gu climbed the Jingdong Tower in desperation, and Kang Yi witnessed the persecution of weak creatures by humans from the perspective of a bystander. He finally understood that Gollum was not a pet, he was an equal being with himself.
Kang Yi made the opposite choice to his former master: he insisted on sending Xiao Gu away, maintaining his own integrity in the crowd.
Kang Yi, who has a happy family, is innocent, and the teenager has wide eyes and sees the world with an uncompetitive and innocent eye, he only pays attention to and observes what the facts are, and there is no argument or demand.
XiaoGu's encounter gave Kang Yi a new understanding and thinking about the world, and he began to "know the world". At this time, the choices he made truly represented his growing self, not his nature.
Parting is a compulsory course for every growth. Sending Little Gollum away marks his growth.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks</h1>
Japanese animation films are always good at poking people's lungs with ordinary and moving small details. That summer, Kogu, a kappa who traveled from the Edo period to the modern city of Tokyo, meets The young and kind Yasuichi. This is destined to be an encounter that will end in parting. But the ending is not important, what is important is that in that summer, all three teenagers achieved self-growth, adapted to the environment, learned to resist, and maintained themselves. Then each embarked on the journey of life in the future.
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@Incredible Miss Q