You look as if you're delicious
You Look Like You're Delicious is a 2010 Japanese manga film by Tatsuya Miyashi, and is also miyashi's most iconic work. Although this film has not won any awards in Japan or internationally, it has won the love and praise of countless audiences with its warm, relaxed and touching characteristics, and it is a good film suitable for all ages and deeply touching.
First, let's talk about the plot of this movie. The film revolves around two adoption stories between herbivorous ankylosaurs and carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex during the Cretaceous dinosaur era. The first adoption was when the gentle mother adopted a baby Tyrannosaurus rex and named it Hart. As a carnivore, Hart could not adapt to the herbivorous diet, and grew up to be quite difficult, compared with the Tyrannosaurus rex of the same age, he was weak and thin, and had no combat effectiveness. The long-term survival of the cruel environment of the weak and the strong in nature will only make Hart a delicious meal in the mouths of other Tyrannosaurus rexes, so he decides to return to the world of Tyrannosaurus rex. The film handles this twist plot quite well, through Hart's standing overlook, serious thinking, awakening Hart's inner desire to be a Tyrannosaurus rex, and through a food chain switch to illustrate the objective inevitability of Hart leaving the ankylosaurus mother at this time.
The second paragraph of the film adopts a small ankylosaur after returning to the T-Rex territory, Hart, who has become the overlord of the steppe by his own efforts, "forced" to adopt a small ankylosaurus, and inadvertently takes a name called "Very Delicious". It is said that it was forced because Hart initially planned to eat "very delicious" in one bite, but in the instant he broke out of his shell, he was defeated by a "daddy" from the little ankylosaurus and inexplicably became a father. The name "delicious" does not sound very strange, this is the little ankylosaurus was born, is preparing to bite down a bite of Hart said an appetizing sentence, "you look like delicious", by the simple and cute little ankylosaurus thought "very delicious" is his name, such a misunderstanding is too warm.
This paragraph is the climax of the whole film, anyone who hears the cute and childish voice of the little ankylosaurus will lose resistance, and even if there is such a cruel act as eating. Since then, Hart has taken the delicious mixed grasslands with him, teaching him various skills to survive in the cruel world of nature. But the herbivorous nature and young age make it delicious no matter how hard they try, and they are not opponents of other powerful Tyrannosaurus rex, which makes Hart fear him all day. In this segment, the film mainly tells the audience about the happy time when Hart and Very Delicious live together, Delicious has touched the softness of Hart's heart many times with its well-behaved understanding, and the father-son relationship is deepening. But Hart still had to decide that he would let Tasty go to nature, and he couldn't protect him for the rest of his life, let alone his father.
Who knows that it is very good to eat dead and alive and refuse to leave Hart, Hart had to think of a trick "to adjust the tiger away from the mountain", that is, to deceive very delicious and race with him, if it is delicious and wins, let him stay with Hart forever. Delicious desperately buried in the head and running forward, the film through this small plot, the delicious love for Hart vividly showed. Hart, on the other hand, pretended to race with Tasty and waited until Tasty ran away with his eyes closed, and then left in the opposite direction. After hearing the delicious screams, you desperately try to save him, and then you know how much he loves to eat. Hart once again breaks the rules of the steppe in order to save him from eating well, which makes him banished by Buck, the king of the steppe, and never allows him to return to the steppe.
Banished, Hart and Delicious come to the seashore, where they meet their love. Later, hearing the news that Egg Mountain was about to collapse, Hart realized that his mother might be in danger, so Hart decided to go back and save his mother. Hart's return to his hometown violates Buck's rules, and a father-son struggle is inevitable. In the end, Hart is knocked unconscious by the powerful Buck, but Buck is also seriously injured in the fight. But he was so relieved that his son had not let himself down. Buck never told Hart the truth about his father, but kept silent attention to him, and that's probably how the father's love was wordless.
Second, let's talk about the main theme of this movie. While telling the cruelty of the laws of survival in nature, the film also advocates the true warmth of tiger poison and not eating children. Under the pressure of life, Hart had to leave his mother who raised him, and the reason for his departure can be learned by him waking up from nightmares many times later, that he was afraid that he would not be able to control his mother. The desire to survive is indeed so terrible. In order not to be eaten in the fierce competition, Hart must work very hard, exercise hard, have a strong body, and work hard to strengthen learning to become smart in order to eat others instead of being eaten by others. Thus becoming the master of this law, becoming the highest end of the food chain. Modern society is the epitome of the tip of nature's iceberg, why are we not facing such a high-pressure and cruel environment? In such a society where people will be eaten without eating others, in order to survive, we must always be vigilant, think of danger in times of peace, and constantly enrich and strengthen ourselves in order to survive in the fierce competition.
The law of survival is cruel, but it also has the goodwill of family, love, and friendship. Therefore, don't give up when you feel that life is difficult, this world is still full of love and warmth, and you can never lose your expectation of beauty. Mom's love for Hart in not asking for anything in return is the tenderness that I recognize at first sight when you see you no matter what you become; Hart's love for delicious food is the bravery with which I will protect you no matter how dangerous the situation you face; Buck's love for Hart is that even though you grow up, I will take the lead; Bellobello's love for Hart is never doubtfully fully supported; the delicious love for Hart is the innocence of believing that you are my father even if you know that you are not my father. These warmth, let people see tears, as if we are tired outside the struggle, injured will be comforted, failure will be encouraged, there is always a driving force in the heart, you have never been alone in the fight, that is the thought will not help but smile the happiness.
Finally, let's talk about the artistic expression of this film. How comic means to express the cold and warm of the world is a very test of a cartoonist's skills. The cleverness of the plot is needless to say, and there are many performance methods worth circled in this film. First, the picture of the food chain that carries on the top and bottom appropriately oversizes the plot and shows the main theme of the story. Second, Hart and the good times of eating and going to the beach to live, how to show the passage of time and longevity, the author chose to express this meaning with the fast moon, which makes people can't help but clap their hands. In addition, the dubbing of the film is also quite good. Mom's gentleness, delicious soft cuteness, Buck's steadiness, and Hart's pertinence are all presented through the excellent voice acting of the voice actors. The film tells the laws of survival in nature through the love-hate relationship between herbivorous ankylosaurs and carnivorous tyrannosaurus rex. And through the protagonist little Tyrannosaurus Rex Hart and the lost father Buck between the recognition of the clue, so that the entire storyline is coherent, the rhythm is compact, the structure is reasonable, and more with a number of clever cute points and tear points arranged, to see the audience is both funny and crying, this is really a "male and female eat", young and old plot film!