"White Bird Valley" is a "music anime", the whole film does not have a single line, every frame of the picture is beautiful to the extreme, in the scenery painting, music interprets people's "childlike heart". Although it is only 15 minutes short, it won the "Short Film Award for Children's Jury at the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France" and was shortlisted for the "2018 Oscar Animation Short Film Preliminary Selection" with its beautiful painting style. In the anime, through the display method of "metaphor is more important than story", the different images of "juvenile, middle-aged, and elderly" Bai Sheng are portrayed, giving the audience enough space to interpret, there is "good and evil", there is "initial heart", and what I feel is a "childlike heart", just like experiencing my own "childhood", which is the charm of "White Bird Valley". So, what story does "White Bird Valley" tell?
Anime Short Film "Shiratori Valley"
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"White Bird Valley" is close to the "stream of consciousness" of literature to a certain extent, above the strong national style, there is also the taste of Miyazaki Hayao, the only difference is that it is full of music and scenery paintings, full of mystery, but the beautiful pictures with beautiful music, but also give people unlimited imagination, understand different emotions.
1. Every teenager has been immersed in childhood dreams
The opening of the animation is a frame full of artistic beauty of the mountain forest, the slanting sun shines high, the red maple green water blue stone, beautiful like a dream, and in fact it is a dream, just the dream of the teenager "Bai Sheng".
In a quiet dream, a man dressed in white picked up the steps, leaving footprints on the fallen leaves, surrounded by dense jungle, and there were several defeated houses in front of him, and the man in white was a little confused.
He stopped and found that in the hidden place, there seemed to be a shadow, and when he came back to his senses, he found that the shadow had disappeared again, and he traced the past, but what was he looking for?
Running and pursuing, he walked to the side of a river, the water was crystal clear, there were many fallen leaves on the river, and two wooden fish floated alone on the huge water, but the scene in front of him was really beautiful.
The man in white is a middle-aged "white sheng", he appeared in the dream of the teenager "white sheng", in such a mysterious, beautiful and silent dream, pursuing something.
Everyone has such a good time, once immersed in dreams, to experience different lives, to see different scenery, and the teenager "Bai Sheng" is also the same, but he saw "middle-aged self" in his dream.
The middle-aged Bai Sheng pursues on the road
2. Will I regret meeting my old age in middle age?
"Boom", a stone fell into the water, breaking through this tranquility, and the man in white also woke up from the silence. When I looked back, I saw an old man with white hair hiding behind a tree trunk, and they looked at each other, and there was a familiar and imminent feeling.
The white-clad man and the white-haired old man walked together, and on a rock hanging by the river, the white-haired old man blew the wooden whistle in his hand, and in a few moments a white bird flew over and landed on the wooden pole in his hand.
Two people walked under the wooden pavilion, the ground was covered with yellow fallen leaves, there were many white birds around, around the white man, in order to pursue the white bird, the two came to the side of the wooden house, a white bird rushed over, the white man raised his hand to hit it, and the result was that the white bird landed on the ground and became a yellow fallen leaf.
The boy in white was very confused:
Why do white birds turn into leaves?
But later he understood that the withered yellow leaves were actually his withered "childlike heart", and the appearance of the old man made him see his old self, and it seemed that there was still no "original heart".
He angrily beat the white bird, but beat away his "childlike heart", just like us in real life, unconsciously, have lost our "childlike heart".
Everyone's life is a one-way trip, good and bad, must be accepted, but when we fail to live according to our own heart, when we are old, we shed tears of regret.
Because we are like the man in white, we have lost not only our childlike heart, but also our own life.
Middle-aged white sheng with flying white birds
3. Losing the "childlike heart", the teenager will "become old"
At the edge of the wooden house, the man in white saw a large white bird on the roof, it spat out dark smoke, and there were many white birds surrounding it, and when it found that the teenager saw it, it immediately ran away.
The man in white continued to pursue the big white bird, found the big bird parked by the river, and when he tried to destroy him, he found that a teenager appeared next to him, but in the blink of an eye, the boy disappeared, and the big white bird also took the opportunity to escape.
In life, there are always some things that disappear inadvertently, such as the childlike heart.
In the river, the great bird was wounded, and stopped on the stone on the bank, facing the man in white, and then flew high, and the man followed it to a wooden bridge, and saw the boy on the other side of the bridge.
He stood next to an erect wooden fish, and the big bird landed on the wooden fish, screaming in the sky, spitting out dark smoke, and then merging with the wooden fish, and the teenager at this moment clutched the wooden fish in his hand.
A burst of white birds flew in, surrounding the teenager's side, and the teenager instantly became an old man, just like us in reality, in a trance, we became "old people".
If a person loses his "childlike heart", he will "grow old" in an instant.
At this time, the man in white couldn't help but attack, the old man who had encroached on the teenager, the river next to him condensed into two "water dragons", and went to the old man, and the old man also used the wooden fish in his hand to cast spells, and finally the two people drew.
However, the wooden fish behind the old man fell, and the old man also changed into the appearance of a teenager with the fall of the wooden fish, but he looked at the wooden fish and shed tears, and on the other side of the shore, the man also shed tears.
The moment the wooden fish fell, the middle-aged Bai Sheng shed tears of remorse
The tears shed by teenagers are "tears of sadness", but what men shed are "tears of regret".
Because he thought that the old man had embezzled the teenager, but later he found out that whether it was the old man or the teenager, it was himself, but one was the self who "had a child's heart", and the other was the self who "pursued the child's heart".
In order to make the anime more imaginative, the director did not set a word and a half from beginning to end, but adopted the form of music, and the plot also fluctuated with the "joys and sorrows" of the music, creating a dreamy scene.
This dream full of imagination, from the perspective of the protagonist middle-aged Bai Sheng, to recall his childhood, look forward to his future, through meeting the elderly himself to convey his lost "childlike heart" memories, through meeting the teenager's self, let yourself understand: people live a lifetime, the most beautiful thing is "childlike heart".
Middle-aged Bai Sheng saw the young Bai Sheng in front of the erected wooden fish
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Although the 15-minute plot cannot exhaust a person's life, it conveys the "life state" of most people at different times by giving the actual meaning of scenes such as "white birds, wooden fish, bamboo poles", so that people watching the movie feel empathy, and inadvertently reflect on whether they have lost their "childlike heart"?
1. Shiratori: The innocence of childhood
In the short film, whether it is the big white bird spitting out dark smoke or the group of flying white birds, they are actually interpreting this theme, that is, "innocence and beauty".
When the young Bai Sheng first appeared, it was when the middle-aged Bai Sheng was chasing the big white bird, and although the big white bird spat out dark smoke, the young Bai Sheng knew that it was his "childlike heart".
It was only in the long time, slowly affected by the filth, when he saw that his middle-aged self wanted to destroy it, he immediately appeared, leaving it time to escape.
But he was too naïve, this innocence could only be seen through by himself, and how could the middle-aged Bai Sheng understand?
So he chased the great white bird all the way to see how it had been changed, but he saw the truth on the wooden fish erected in front of him, and it turned out that as he grew up, he slowly lost his childish heart.
Perhaps, everyone once had a pure white bird, which carries our childlike heart, records our childhood, and is everyone's most beautiful memory.
On the way to the middle-aged Baisheng in pursuit of the white bird, he meets the young Baisheng
2. Wooden fish: middle-aged confusion
Wooden fish appears four times in the anime, each time is a close-up, the first time is "floating in the water", the second time is "erected on the opposite shore", the third time is "in the hands of the young White Sheng", the fourth time is "the teenager White Sheng disappears and falls into the water", and the frequent appearance of the wooden fish close-up is also to highlight the confusion in the heart of the middle-aged White Sheng.
When he saw the floating wooden fish, his heart was lonely, because the wooden fish was like himself, floating in the sea of people.
The wooden fish standing on the opposite shore, the wooden fish in the hands of the young Bai Sheng, and the wooden fish that fell into the water explain how he became confused and confused step by step, and how he lost his "childlike heart" step by step.
If you can't find your way, it's better to stop and look around, maybe you can find the flag to escape the predicament.
However, the middle-aged Bai Sheng did not understand the hint given to him by the wooden fish. At the beginning, he tried to change the past, but because there was no direction in his heart, he could only run around and pursue, so that he finally fell into confusion and personally broke the only "childlike heart" hidden in the wooden fish.
If you are confused and overwhelmed, then calm down, because the banner of escaping from the predicament is in your heart, and the answer you want is also in your heart.
The wooden fish that stood up slowly fell
3. Bamboo poles: the search for the elderly
The bamboo pole in the old man's hand is his weapon in pursuit of the "childlike heart". In old age, he suddenly found that the reason why he was unhappy was because he had lost his "childlike heart", so he went alone to find it.
On this road, he slowly found his childlike heart little by little through his sincere heart, and the little white bird that stayed on his bamboo pole was the "lost and regained childlike heart".
However, when he was about to find his remaining childlike heart, the middle-aged Bai Sheng appeared, and the old man watched him walk his old path step by step, so he walked with him and wanted to impress him.
However, the middle-aged Bai Sheng was generally stubborn at the beginning, he mistakenly thought that his confusion was because of the wooden fish, so he wanted to destroy him, the old man finally sacrificed himself in order to protect the wooden fish, and he also made the middle-aged Bai Sheng completely awaken.
Everyone lives to old age, there is always one kind or another of regret, want to pursue the lost beauty, perhaps a child's heart, or may be love, family affection, friendship.
Life is only once, when you wake up, your heart will be more stable, and life will become full.
Bamboo poles of old white sheng
4. People live a lifetime, may you not lose the innocent "childlike heart"
In "White Bird Valley", the teenager Bai Sheng saw his middle age and old age through his dreams, and understood that the most precious thing in life is a "childlike heart", which contains a person's "kindness, initial heart, and love". With these, only by living will we not be lonely and will not be confused.
However, in real life, we do not have such luck to be able to simulate our own life in our dreams and see what our future life will look like, and we can only move forward step by step. Regret, chagrin, and confusion are only experienced before you blame the self who did not insist?
But even so, there is still no chance to start again in life, the lost "childlike heart" will never be found again, and we can only spend the rest of our lives in regret.
Fortunately, in Bai Sheng's dream, we understand the preciousness of "childlike heart", and we must know how to keep the little childlike heart left in our hearts, you know, when you lose it all, then your life is bleak.
May you never lose your "childlike heart".
The young Bai Sheng and the middle-aged Bai Sheng met for the last time
epilogue:
It is true that in this short life, we always have something to lose. In this modern city, the cold reinforced concrete imprisons our bodies, but our souls are free, as long as you dare to awaken the heart and guard it with the most sincere faith, then you can live happily. Perhaps, it takes a lot of courage to do so, but isn't it necessary to be brave when people live for a lifetime?