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Now more and more animation works, by placing human feelings on other creatures, get some reverse thinking, and see people with other creatures, what kind of experience will it be? These animations cast human emotions on different creatures in an anthropomorphic way, "all things have spirits".
Anthropomorphic animation works, such as "Working Cells" in last year's fire, are through anthropomorphic methods, to take us to understand the role of different cells in the human body, or cute or heroic cells, and how cells that play different roles in our body work.
Working Cell scene diagram
Anthropomorphism is quite used in different works, and we can often see that the use of this method in different works brings different thinking, such as the Korean animation work "Click, Click, Click", which makes us think differently about life through the anthropomorphic performance of "fish".
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Personification refers to the personification and humanization of things other than people in order to show images and forms like human beings or human behavior. Things that originally did not have human actions and feelings will be transformed into a pattern with actions and feelings like people.
Anthropomorphism can be divided into three situations.
1. Anthropomorphize the inanimate.
For example, Gorky's description in Petrel: "The waves sing and rush high into the air to meet the thunder." "Here is the image of the waves forming human beings singing.
Lao She's introduction in "Daxing'an Ridge": "Every ridge is so gentle, although it is from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, full of precious trees, but no one is lonely peak protruding, full of arrogance." In the description of this paragraph, gentleness and domineering are used to describe people, and here it is used to describe "ridge".
Here the non-living beings are described as human beings, giving them human actions and feelings.
2. Anthropomorphize biology.
For example, Lu Xun's description in "From the Hundred Grass Garden to the Sanwei Bookhouse": "Just the short mud wall root area around it is infinitely interesting." Butterflies sing here, crickets play the piano here. ”
In Lao She's "Crescent Moon": "The frog sings love songs, and the fragrance of tender pu is scattered in the heat of late spring." ”
Creatures such as "oil frogs", "crickets", and "frogs" are described as human beings, giving them some actions and thoughts and feelings.
3. Anthropomorphize abstract concepts.
For example, in Marx's Capital: "Capital comes into the world from head to toe, with blood permeated every pore." ”
Abstract concepts such as "capital" and "dogmatism" are described as human beings, giving them the actions and thoughts and feelings of some people.
Anthropomorphism refers to the personification of "non-human concepts" and the empowerment of them with human thoughts, feelings, actions, and language abilities. The scope of anthropomorphism in many works is very broad, including the anthropomorphization of animals, plants and other non-living, various concrete and abstract things, concepts, concepts, and qualities.
The personified characters in these works are not real people in life. They possess certain characteristics of man, but still retain many of the attributes of things, both human and material. Therefore, the anthropomorphism cannot violate the original characteristics of the object being proposed, in addition to taking care of the original relationship between things and people, as well as other things, and following the laws of nature and life that govern them.
The Korean animated film "Papa Da Da" uses an anthropomorphic method to take us to feel a fish's desire for freedom through the perspective of a mackerel.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the animated movie "Snapping And Clicking", with "fish eyes" to see the world, a great escape from self-redemption</h1>
1. About the Korean animation movie "Papa Da"
The animated film Padak Padak is a work with fish as the main character directed by South Korean director LEE DAE HEE, which uses anthropomorphic techniques to give people thoughts and emotions about a fish salvaged from the sea, and carry out a great escape for freedom. The overall tone of the work is oppressive and heavy, the human image is ugly, and the dark side of many human beings is magnified.
Animated poster for "Snap Click"
For this movie, another moviegoer suggested that this Korean animation film is not suitable for the following groups:
1. Innocent children and adolescents
2. Vegetarian
3. Japanese fans who like to eat sashimi
4. Persons engaged in aquaculture trafficking
5. Chef
Synopsis: A mackerel oatfish living in the ocean (female perspective) is caught in a fishing net and then placed in a tank at a seafood restaurant. Trapped in a tank, she began to look relentlessly for an escape after witnessing the killing of many fish. Unlike other fish from fishing grounds in tanks, pessimistic skeptics , " halibut " also grow in the sea. As the longest surviving fish in the tank, he controlled the other fish with his way of survival. For him, the swallow fish's attempt to escape from the tank has threatened his rule. And the swallowfish, which is not threatened by it, has been desperately looking for a way to escape...
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >4, "replace people with fish"! Thinking: Whether to chase the freedom of life or to go with the flow and sit still</h1>
The other fish said to the swallowfish: "You are from the sea, unlike us."
The story is set in fish, the most common and easily overlooked creatures in our lives, and they are numerous, just like the vast number of beings, and it is easier to form a sense of substitution. Through the anthropomorphic depiction of the fish, it tells the story of the swallow fish from the sea that fled back to the sea at all costs.
South Korea is geographically close to the sea, surrounded by many ports, and many people rely on fishing for a living. The background of the story is the port area, where people return from fishing, and countless large and small fish are salvaged and thrown into water tanks, waiting to be sent to the city's wet markets and restaurants.
The main character in the work, a blue-and-black female swallowfish living in the ocean, is salvaged and sent to a water tank in front of a restaurant, which is right by the sea, a restaurant specializing in seafood sashimi, and after the guests pick the fish, the chef catches and kills them. A few minutes after the swallow fish entered the tank, he witnessed another fish being disemboweled, cut into sashimi and brought to the table, his mouth still trying to breathe...
Still in a sashimi with a closed mouth
The swallowfish, who had never seen such a scene, was hit by a huge shock, and she began to crash desperately into the tank, trying to escape from here, while the other fish that had become accustomed to it laughed at the swallowfish with a look of alienation. Other fish sarcastically said, "You'll get hurt that way, but if you swim back and forth, the meat is fresh." "There are a couple of guys like that at the fish farm where I used to be, and they all think they're special." ...
Different fish in the tank
The swallowfish has been relentlessly looking for a way to escape back into the sea. Knocked unconscious by the old halibut, jumped out of the water tank but fainted due to lack of water, and was put back into the tank. She struggled, gasped, and was laughed at by the fish as she moved on the ground, "snapping and snapping to find death." Regardless of the attitude of the fish around her, she just wants to escape back to the sea where she lives.
She tried to find a companion, and she told the other fish "We are the same." All fish can go to the sea, in fact all the fish come from the sea, but now that they forget it, they will remember it when they get to the sea. "But fish that have become accustomed to tanks and fish farms do not have any expectations for leaving.
A swallow fish that fights hard
Between swallow fish and other fish, it actually reflects the current situation of many people. Some people struggle desperately, go forward, want to pursue their dream life, and gain freedom. Some people, on the other hand, are bound by their own hearts and bound by the "invisible fish tank". Living in the framework for a long time has made them lose their pursuit of freedom, and they are afraid of the series of risks caused by the pursuit of change, "we can't do anything, now life is the best". Fearing the unknown, I sat still.
The most exciting and profound shot of the whole work is the moment when the old halibut is placed on the board.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > five, reflection: "dead as alive" or desperately fighting</h1>
"You are all dead, if you enter the fish tank, you will be dead, and if you are dead, you will not dream again..."
- Old halibut
The darkest and most ironic scene in the whole work is the scene where the head of the water tank, the old halibut, is about to be killed, and the old halibut who holds the belief of "try to pretend to be dead, you can live a day is a day", looking at everything around in horror: the glare of the lights overhead, the mouth of the diners who are chewing, the pot stove that is still stewing the fish, the rotating exhaust fan... The frightened gaze of the old halibut glancing back and forth made everything strange and frightening. The old flounder, who can no longer calmly face death, seems to say it all.
Old halibut on the board
And the heroine Swallow Fish is still desperately struggling, she met some companions in the tank, kind and innocent "Little Yellow", honest and obedient sea bream aunt, sinister eel ... but she is the only one who wants to escape, she looks at the sea not far away, tries to jump out of the fish tank, and is found by the fishmonger and caught back. Struggling to jump into the king crab's tank, trying to get these clawed guys to help smash the fish tank, but being ruthlessly torn, she sang a song yearning for freedom, and tried again and again, and finally... became sashimi. The old halibut, which was influenced by the swallow fish, finally fought for the belief that he would die, jumped hard, and fled to the sea.
A swallow fish made into sashimi
This film mainly uses the perspective of fish to profile human society, such as the weak eating the strong, the big fish eating the small fish, the decadent and thoughtless people, the imprisonment... Although the swallow fish that had been working hard died, her spirit was passed on, and the old halibut eventually changed his mind and fled to the outside world.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > vi, final</h1>
This work uses an anthropomorphic techniques, different from the ideas of previous inspirational animation works, in an exaggerated but real way, telling the life of "fish", and the work reflects the cruel and dark side of real life.
When the heroine Yanyu hummed "Fortunately everything is just a dream" in her dream with a poignant and moving voice, when the public fish looked at the joke and treated the Yanyu as a joke, when the old halibut said that he would exchange suspended death for the hope of one more day, when many fish faced death again and again... Too many shots allow us to see the real state of our lives.
The departure of the swallow fish and the escape of the old flounder, there are still people in the world who use the price of life in exchange for hope, the pace of pursuing freedom and dreams is difficult, some people choose to sit still and live a stable life in their own small cage, and some people choose to fight hard, exchange their lives for freedom, even if they fail, at least it brings hope to some people, and what life will eventually be, depends on themselves.