"The ultimate lifetime of waiting is my ultimate thought of you."
Father and Daughter
We live a lifetime, and nothing that accompanies us for life is memory and emotion. Starting from family affection, people in this life must harvest friendship, love, national feelings, patriotism and so on too many important feelings, through "love" we can feel the meaning of life. From birth to death, this is something that carries through our lives, cannot be separated, and needs to be carefully savored.
Most of the film and television dramas and literary works we have seen are inseparable from the expression of various emotions. From the long-term love of getting along day and night to the eternal love at first sight, from the parental love that pays for no reason, to the filial piety of the parents, what moves us the most and everyone can feel is family affection.
Father-daughter love
Even if I can't be with you for a lifetime, in my limited life, I will use the time of my life to miss you forever. The work I want to talk about today is "Father and Daughter", an animated short film that will feel unfinished no matter how many times you watch it, a short 8-minute story that allows us to see the fate of father and daughter for a lifetime, your care for me when you are together, and my remembrance of you after separation.
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The work won the 73rd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film and was directed and written by Dutch animation director, cartoonist and illustrator Michael Dudwitt. "Father and Daughter" is his most famous work, and his representative works include "Red Sea Turtle" and "The Monk and the Flying Fish".
Michael Dudwitt
Story Description: The father and his daughter leisurely rode forward on the bicycle, and suddenly the father stopped on the bank of a river, and the daughter stopped the bicycle after following his footsteps. The father walked to the boat by the river, and when he was about to board the boat, he turned around and hugged his daughter again, and then rowed the boat alone and drifted away.
Leaving the daughter alone on the shore, after waiting for a while to see no trace of her father, the little girl rode back on her bicycle alone. Since this day, the daughter has returned to this place every once in a while to look in the direction of her father's departure, looking forward to his father's return.
Father's departure
The gray-yellow picture is combined with soothing but slightly sad music, so that the audience can feel the warmth between father and daughter at the same time, and can't help but have a sad mood.
The success of the work lies in the fact that the profound connotation of the meaning is presented through a simple picture, so that many viewers will have new feelings every time they watch it, whether from the perspective of children or adults.
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This animated short film is very successful in grasping and expressing family affection, as well as in creating an atmosphere, and many people will be moved by the emotional expression in it when watching the work.
There are only two main characters in the work, the little girl who has been growing up and the father she has always missed.
Father and daughter
At the beginning of the picture, the father and daughter ride bicycles on the bank of the river together, and the simple picture slowly opens the beginning of the story for us. A scene of a daily father taking his daughter on a trip is frozen on the screen, and suddenly the father stops the car, and the little girl looks back to see that her father has stopped the bicycle, and then rides the car back a little, leaning next to the bicycle where the father stopped.
At this point, the little girl rode past her father and turned back to him.
Father stopped suddenly
Then the father rubbed the little girl's head on the bank of the river, a person walked to the boat by the river, looking at the endless water, the father looked back at the little girl, and then rushed to the river to pick up the little girl and turned around a few times, reluctantly hugged for a while, then gently put it down, and walked to the river again.
This scene, and the little girl seems to be unaware of everything, she only knows that her father is leaving.
Father's tangled mood
The father got into the boat and rowed farther and farther, and the little girl ran back and forth on the shore to watch her father gradually go away until she disappeared. Then she rode up on her bicycle and embarked on the way back alone.
The little girl returned alone
Subsequently, the little girl rode her bicycle alone to the river and stood next to the bicycle left by her father to look at the place where her father had disappeared, and when she found nothing, she rode back on her own bicycle.
The little tree became a big tree, and the little girl gradually grew up and became a little girl, and braved the fierce wind to come to the place where her father left, still only the fluctuating river and the bicycle left by her father. When it appeared again, it was a rainy day, and the little girl put on a blue dress and came to the river, at which point her father's bicycle disappeared, and the daughter only stayed for a short time before returning.
The blue dress is the only color shot that appears in the work, marking the end of the first phase of the work, representing the daughter's gradual acceptance of the fact that her father died, and until then, the daughter has returned the same way on her bicycle.
Blue dress
After this stage is over, the back shot begins, and the daughter rides her bike all the way forward and does not return. The first time my daughter passed by this place with her classmates, she stopped to look at it for a while, and then rode forward with her friends on her bicycle. The second time she sat in her boyfriend's back seat and passed the same place again, she didn't stop this time.
What is shown here is that the daughter has learned to look forward at this time. Although some people have temporarily left us and suspended their pace, life still has to move forward, and everyone's story will continue. The daughter will still go to school and fall in love.
Moving on
The picture turns, the daughter has grown up, has a husband and a son and a daughter, when the husband and two children are playing by the river, she stands alone on the bank of the river looking at the water, and her thoughts fly away. After having her own children, perhaps she can understand her father's feelings for her.
The husband's company means that the husband has already understood and experienced this matter, so he will come together as a family.
The child touches the surface of the water
When the middle-aged daughter came to the river again, everything was shrouded in white snowflakes, and at this time she was a little confused about the surface of the river and the ground.
midlife
The girl gradually grew old, at this time she could not hold the handlebars of the bicycle in her hand, and seeing that the river in front of her had turned into wild grass, she still chose to go back. When the daughter appears in the camera again, she can no longer ride the bicycle, and when she comes to the bank of the river, she is ready to park the car, but the bicycle falls down on its own repeatedly, and after many unsuccessful lifts, she put down the bicycle and walked towards the riverbank. She walked down the shore, past the lush water grass, and found the boat that her father had rowed away.
Father's boat
She looked around for a moment and then lay down in the middle of the boat. In the dream, she saw that her father, whom she had not seen for a long time, was still the same as when she left, waiting for her in the distance, and she ran all the way from a dying old man to a girl, and came to his father and hugged him tightly.
Father and daughter hug each other
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The bicycle and wheels symbolize the length and state of life, and the bicycle on which the father pauses symbolizes the end of his life. The little girl rides a bicycle from the ease of the beginning, to the inability to control the handlebars in her old age, and finally to the inability to ride a bicycle, symbolizing every process of her life.
Bike for two people
The daughter's ignorance of riding a bicycle alone becomes difficult in the early uphill, symbolizing some of the grinding she encounters when she is not accompanied and protected by her father. When the girl went uphill with her classmates, she was also the one who was more laborious, and when she came to the old place, she stopped for a while as usual. After having a boyfriend, although the girl did not stop anymore, she looked back and looked back, and although the pace forward was no longer so difficult, she would still think of her father.
The tribulations of life
The light in the night represents the deepening of thoughts and explorations at night.
The shaking handlebars represent the end of her daughter's life, and on the bank of the river, she repeatedly lifted the fallen bicycle, which was her struggle to face death, and the final abandonment showed that she realized that her life was coming to an end.
struggle
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Age returns
Every time the daughter waits on the shore, is she really waiting for her father's return?
When she was a little girl, she really thought that her father would come back, so at that time she really waited with a mentality of waiting for her father to come home together. After growing up, she gradually understood that her father's departure was a permanent sense of leaving, at this time her waiting was more of a psychological comfort, her father has been staying in a corner of her heart, so that she can't help but want to stop and think every time she sees that position, there is sadness and growth, but more is probably the father's love.
See you again
From the separation of father and daughter in the early stage, to the waiting of the daughter, and then to the consummation of the final heaven, the suppressed emotions in the early stage of the work let us harvest the consummation in the final embrace, life and time are constantly moving forward, but emotions will make the memory become eternal at a certain moment.
The moment the girl ran to her father, she was touched to the heart and quietly consummated. Life is a journey of no return, and fortunately we met at the end.