"White Bird Valley" was released in 2017, and the rich elements of national style in the film pushed the national comic to the world stage. The film was nominated for the Short Film Award for Children's Jury at the Annecy Animation Film Festival in France in 2017 and the Academy Award for Short Film. The art style of the film is eye-catching, depicting the story of the protagonist Bai Sheng in the process of pursuing the white bird, facing the inner darkness and finally gaining a new life.
The film's beautiful national style elements are eye-catching, and the story takes place in a leisurely and silent valley, where hundreds of birds are singing, and there is peace in the mountains. The young Bai Sheng returned to the valley, he kept chasing a big bird with a purple glow, this big bird was the bird of the white bird, she was white and crystalline, her body was strong, and when she went to the sky in the valley, she did not have the slightest fear. Bai Sheng met his master in the valley, and then saw his childhood self, when he looked back on what he had done, he not only felt guilty about his original selfishness, but also intervened to stop everything, and finally he reconciled with himself, making the valley a veritable White Bird Valley.
Whether it is the freehand feelings of the film or the romantic warmth between the mountains and rivers, the way people get along with nature is described just right. Freehand is the soul of Chinese landscapes, white birds fly together in the quiet valley, teenagers chase the figure of white birds, when he continues to chase, the body and heart have been strong experience.
The teenager finally completed his self-transformation by relying on his persistent faith, and this animation still continues the consistent style of the Extraordinary Series of animations, and does not emphasize the narrative of the story too much, but focuses on the presentation of traditional national style elements that create the picture. The ignorance in the film in childhood, the confusion in youth and the open-mindedness in old age are all life processes that each of us will experience, so let us follow the film to think, hoping to give everyone more value and meaning.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01, the white bird pursued by teenagers, and like our dreams in life, the film shows us the importance of persistent belief from three stages of life</h1>
At the beginning of the film, Bai Sheng returns to the valley, when the valley is full of white birds, and when he steps closer, he finds that the pond has become black, which indicates change and destruction. When Bai Sheng saw that an old man under the tree was fishing, this old man was his master in the original plot setting, but in the film, our thinking is not so limited, and the appearance of the old man is to promote the development of the plot.
The old man blew a whistle and a white bird flew to his fishing rod and continued to circle, and Bai Sheng looked at the figure of the white bird in a daze. Later, they came to the village in the valley together, the white birds flew around the house, when Bai Sheng accidentally touched a white bird, the white bird immediately turned into a dead leaf, and in the blink of an eye, the ground was full of dead leaves, and each piece was a white bird illusion.
In order to understand the reason, Bai Sheng kept chasing the white bird, and finally after he found the bird, the bird first dived into the water after being discovered, and then flew into the sky, and Bai Sheng suddenly found his childhood self during the chase.
Bai Sheng in his childhood: Worshiping the white bird as a god, it means his desire and longing for the unknown world
In the film, when he was a child, Bai Sheng continued to shuttle back and forth, and he watched the young body of the white bird running non-stop, and still held the totem of the white bird in his hand. When he saw the bird rear hovering over the white bird totem made of huge wooden stakes, he raised his head and stared intently with reverence.
The white bird totem in his hand was always held tightly by him, and even though he himself had disappeared later, the white bird totem remained the same. At this time, he did not know why, but the reverence for nature was spontaneous, even if he was surrounded by black birds, he did not have the slightest fear, in his eyes the white birds were like gods.
The young Bai Sheng was full of curiosity about everything, his heart was pure and clean, and there were no distractions. The appearance of Bai Sheng in childhood is a kind of spiritual sublimation and another way of emotional expression for the film, which corresponds to the inner world of each of us when we were young, full of curiosity and expectation for all the unknowns, and always believe that everything is beautiful.
The white bird in "White Bird Valley" is the symbol of nature, we can live in peace with them in a selfless and fearless state of mind, we may be ordinary and ordinary when we are young, but we will never be stingy about the yearning for beauty.
Bai Sheng as a teenager: Full of curiosity about the white bird, alluding to his reshaping and integration of his own world
When he returned to the valley, Bai Sheng had grown up, he was no longer just a child who didn't know anything, and when he met Shiratori he was no longer a god. When he found that the white birds he touched had turned into leaves, he didn't look shocked, all he wanted in his mind was to find out.
When he chased the bird and then arrived at the altar shrine, the bird hovered over the stake of the totem, and its pain and embarrassment eventually disappeared, and then all the white birds in the valley turned into black birds. When the blackbird circled and drank, Bai Sheng just looked at it in a daze, at this time the ignorance in his eyes did not see the curiosity gradually arose, and finally because the blackbird turned his young self into the appearance of a "teacher", Bai Sheng used a spell to eliminate the illusion.
The young Bai Sheng, the world view gradually formed, he looked at everything in the world is no longer just simple good and bad, his world view is reshaping and integrating. When he saw the bird and died, he felt silent and powerless, and there was nothing he could do about it, and when he saw his young self being swallowed up, his heart finally rebelled.
In fact, the blackbird turned the young Bai Sheng into an old man, implying that the ignorance of youth and the inability of youth are exactly the same. Can't help but let us sigh here, the way people and all things get along is not the process of becoming each other!
The elderly man (meaning the old Bai Sheng): Full of open-mindedness about natural things, it means his attachment to self-belief
The elderly old man can also reflect the elderly Bai Sheng in the film, he wears a coat, white beard and white eyebrows, which is exactly what he looks like after experiencing life experience. When he is transformed by the blackbird and destroyed by the white sheng, his existence is an invisible line, pulling the juvenile bai sheng at one end and the young bai sheng at the other.
Bai Sheng rescued his young self, but he personally erased his old self, and when a person who did not know what he would look like in the future, all he thought and felt in his heart was the initial self. So when Bai Sheng decided to reinvent himself, his choice determined his future path, and this road was the imprint left by the old man.
A person's belief from germination to root to growth, this process is the process from infancy to adolescence to old age. The three animated characters in the film each form a beautiful landscape, but they all converge on each other, making us fully aware of the importance of persistent belief.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02, the white bird from birth to death, and then from death to life, in the world of endless life, only dreams can achieve life</h1>
Flocks of white birds flutter in the valley, and when we first started with the film, we were struck by the peaceful mountain atmosphere. In the secluded valley, surrounded by trees, flowing water, flocks of white birds shuttle back and forth. For a time the leaves fluttered, for a time the fish flew shallow bottom, and for a time a hundred birds competed.
The existence of the white bird creates the value and meaning of the valley's existence, the white bird has its totem, the people here worship them as gods, and the altar is full of blessing marks. Later, the bird queen died, the huge totem statue collapsed, and all the white birds turned into black birds, and their voices were no longer crisp.
The appearance of the blackbird symbolizes the death of the white bird, and the blackbird finally launches a counterattack, they are no longer docile and no longer live in peace with humans. At this moment, Bai Sheng saw the situation in front of him, especially seeing his young self destroyed, he re-examined himself and restored everything to its original state.
When he finished everything, his eyes were already full of tears, there was regret and regret in the tears, there was relief and sentimentality, when the young self came to the side, he wanted to reach out and touch his former appearance, but in the end everything became the past, and the young self never disappeared again.
The totem of the white bird is destroyed, he himself becomes a new totem, and the kneeling and bowing is his repentance and realization of the past, and at this time, the white bird in the water is reborn, one or two... More and more. The life and death of the white bird is like the ups and downs in life, we can sink for a while, but we can't sink in a lifetime. When we chase and recall the ideals and wills we once had, we need to really dig out the "self" completely and truly see ourselves.
Bai Sheng only wants to destroy the side of desire in the simple and rough way he learned when he was growing up, which is undoubtedly torturing his soul in a cruel way, and it is gratifying that the teenager has finally released his past, and a group of reborn white birds also represent his new growth.
Bai Sheng's dream from scratch, from rough to simple, is actually the process of his dream transformation. Ignorance in childhood may have created mistakes, regrets and regrets, and the wandering and seeming maturity of youth is actually helpless, only when he examines the distance between himself and his dreams with new eyes, he is slowly transformed and reborn.
White birds symbolize all the beauty of the world, and having them requires ability and courage, whether it is from scratch, or from less to more, the only hope we can support is to use dreams as horses to create our happy life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03, animation conveys to us the topic of common growth between people, people and nature, and self and self</h1>
The idea conveyed to us by the film is very strong, whether it is the process of Bai Sheng chasing the white bird, or the demise and rebirth of the white bird, which is full of the topic of common growth between man and man, man and nature, self and self.
A ten-minute movie, the whole process without any dialogue, but the three truths are taught to us, I have thought more than once when watching the movie about our way of getting along with natural things, it can be said that every place is interlocked, and every thought gives us deep thinking and understanding.
People to people: mutual promotion
The appearance of the three animated characters in the film actually reflects the life of a person, but they are independent of each other. For example, Bai Sheng's juvenile and juvenile, they are the same person but have completely different ideas. The elderly and the white bird are completely different people, they are born in the valley and spend all day with the white bird, but their feelings for the white bird are different.
Bai Sheng in his childhood awakened the heart of Bai Sheng when he was a teenager, and Bai Sheng found a way to reconcile with nature through the elderly. They have completed their self-transformation in mutual promotion, so when Bai Sheng confronts himself, he transforms into a new totem and continues to guard the quiet and peace of Shiratori Valley.
Just like each of us lives in society, the environment is the same, but everyone is different. Compared with the vast number of different identities, what we have together is to promote each other and grow each other.
Man and Nature: Living in Harmony
Shiratori Valley is famous for its white birds, but the valley that lost its white birds is no longer vibrant. People prayed that the white bird could bless the wind and rain, and did not think that the white bird also needed human help.
In the film, man and nature are self-contained, and the balance between each other is always unconsciously broken, and finally because Bai Sheng faces the inner darkness in the process of pursuing the white bird, he finally makes man and nature harmonious.
Why the white birds in the White Bird Valley will die, nature is because of human intervention, just like nature, human beings will not hesitate to destroy the homeland of animals because of their own interests, and eventually promote them to the edge of extinction. What Bai Sheng is facing is actually our human selfishness for the natural world, and only by living in harmony with nature can people create a beautiful living environment.
Self and Self: Growing Together
Bai Sheng's infancy and adolescence are the transformation period of his self-growth, this process has struggles and compromises, there are growth and frustration, fortunately, Bai Sheng finally defeated himself and completed the transformation.
In fact, each of us is constantly reshaping and integrating, and when we face ourselves, we often compare back and forth, we can say that we are a mirror of ourselves, and if we want to become better, we must make full use of this mirror. Bai Sheng is a good example, he saw his innocence and innocence in his childhood, thus opening his determination to examine the present, his transformation is inseparable from external forces, but the power of the inner world is the most important reason for his self-transformation.
If you reconcile with yourself, you can be happy, and compared with yourself, you can grow. Every time period of time we are a milestone, with ourselves never worry about loneliness, growing together is the process of self-achievement.
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In the animated short film "Valley of the White Birds", after a struggle, the blackened white bird symbolizing desire finally disappears, the shell of the elderly is also scattered, and the juvenile White Sheng hidden under the shell also disappears. The knot of Bai Sheng's heart was finally opened, and the soul devoured by desire was finally freed, and the white birds representing the faith and feelings of the newborn naked child soared between the valleys in flocks.
It seems that nothing has happened in the Shiratori Valley, but everything has already passed through experience and growth, in this film I see the brilliance of human nature, the charm of nature, and hope that all the beauty can be preserved!