This summer, Okada's new drama "Infinity" landed on today's headlines, watermelon videos, and vibrato. This is a summer healing anime movie, and the style of painting is still permeated with daisy-like small freshness. As another youth drama written by Okada, the various intractable contradictions during the girl's growth period are escaped to face bravely, and the ups and downs depicted by Okada Areuri.
This film mainly tells the story of Miyo Sasaki, a girl nicknamed "Infinity", who accidentally gets a mask that can transform into a cat as long as she wears it, and the identity boundary between people and cats is becoming more and more blurred. "Infinity" is very similar to "The Cat's Retribution", the story is not complicated, and the focus is on depicting the growth experience of young girls. Finally, Miyo and Hinode enter Cat Island, which is the climax of the whole film, and like the cat country in "The Cat's Reward", the cat's behavior and posture are completely personified, and the scene is also full of magnificent and fantastic atmosphere, which constitutes one of the most interesting and thought-provoking scenes in this fantasy drama.
From active cats to passive cats to almost eternal cats, this series of changes actually tells people that behind the seemingly infinite changes, there are limited constraints. Unlimited wanton behavior, like the red apple in Snow White's hand, is full of temptation on the surface, but it is a deadly poison.
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The protagonist, Miyo Sasaki, uses a Tohoku phrase to describe it, that is, this child is a bit biao. In order to attract the attention of her beloved, Hinode, she always pounces on him as soon as they meet, and this suicidal way of chasing people not only makes Hinoris unbearable, but even her girlfriends spit on her.
In the eyes of most people, Miyo in the human state is about a strange girl with a big nerve and no matter the occasion. As the story progresses, Miyo pretends to look like this, just to cover up the emotions in her heart that cannot be cathartic. Miyo's mother abandoned the family since childhood, her father had a new girlfriend, Miyo's mother suddenly wanted to return to the family, and Miyo was sandwiched between three adults, unable to maneuver.
Miyo is somewhat similar to Yumi in "The Tale of Wishes", both of which lack the love of their parents, carry too much pressure with their smaller bodies, but cannot express their inner thoughts to the people closest to them. However, compared to Yumi's parents, she also has a nanny, a tutor, and a dog to accompany her, and the home is still complete. But for Miyo, being abandoned by his mother since he was a child led to Miyo being ostracized and bullied at school. This kind of school bullying encounter, Miyo can not tell his father, almost no one around to talk.
Compared to Yumi's impression of a good child for her parents, Miyo seems to have no heart and lungs to hide her heart. Her father's neglect, her estranged relationship with Aunt Hui, and her lack of closeness with her mother will make Miyo have a feeling that no one cares about her. That's why after she quarreled with her mother, the beauty representative showed the most authentic emotions, she murmured: "The world is the most annoying, simply destroy it." At this moment, the mask-selling cat appeared, it was like a reflection of evil thoughts in the human heart, it exuded a magic that tempted it to approach it, and behind it opened an abyss of inconspicuousness.
With so many insoluble contradictions in real life, the tenderness that Sunrise only gives birth to when she transforms into a cat, this is the only tenderness in Miyo's life. Because of this, Miyo is repeatedly seduced by cats that sell masks. The cat who sells masks is like the lingbo in "Big Fish and Begonias", who sees everything but does not explain everything, and only throws out a favorable side to himself.
The smile that Miyo keeps at any time is very similar to a depression manifestation that has become popular in recent years, called "smile depression", it seems that people who have been smiling are actually deliberately hiding their emotions, this habitual smile can not eliminate the pressure, trouble, and sorrow brought by work, life and other aspects, but will only make the melancholy and pain accumulate deeper and deeper.
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The word infinite itself is full of temptation. It stands for unrestrained and unlimited. However, the nickname "Infinite" given to Miyo by her classmates carries the meaning of "infinite big problem". It also implies a philosophical definition of infinity: something unconditional, unrestricted in space and time, without beginning or end, actually exists through finiteness. That is to say, it is impossible for any one thing to derive benefits indefinitely, and in contrast, it is necessary to pay a limited price to match it, and even this price may be impossible for oneself to bear.
As a human beauty, the letter of encouragement written to Hinode was read out in public by her classmates, and Hinoki felt ashamed and said to her, "Don't pestering me anymore, I hate you the most." She ran out in grief, and when she got home, she secretly cried alone, and her stepmother smoked to talk to her, and the negative emotions she had been hiding because of her parents' remarriage erupted, "Is it wrong to force a smile?" Knowing that remarriage will hurt me, why should I remarry? ”
Miyo was replaced by the idea that "only when you become a cat, you will be liked." Miyo's human mask has completely fallen off and is about to become a real cat. The life of the cat is that he eats, sleeps, and licks his hair every day, without the slightest self-disturbance as a human mediocre.
Miyo, who has turned into a cat, accompanies Hyuga, knowing that Hyuga wants to apologize to herself, and sees her parents and Aunt Hui arguing because of her disappearance, and her relatives and friends around her in pain because of her disappearance. Miyo suddenly realized that her original intention of turning into a cat was only to get closer to people's hearts. However, Miyo suddenly began to understand human language, and the mask as a human was taken away by the cat that sold the mask. Humans and cats can no longer switch between themselves.
At the same time, as a cat, Huang Dou Fan, that is, Aunt Hui's cat, in order to accompany the owner for a longer time, also made a deal with the cat who sold masks, and lived as Miyo. However, when he saw that Fumi had been looking for himself who had not returned home, he also realized that Fumi needed to be a cat, so he turned to Hinoris and went to Cat Island to find Miyo. The world of cats and people has their own people who need to be guarded, and this identity cannot be exchanged or completed with each other.
This is a very central theme of this film, when we can really cross the line, are we ready to bear the corresponding consequences?
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The second half of the film is the sublimation of the whole story. What seems like a gamble decision changed the trajectory of Miyo's life. "What's so bad about being a cat?" The cat selling masks finally seduced success. It took away the lifespan and soul that originally belonged to the Miyo humans.
Miyo decides to go to Cat Island to find a way to restore her body, and meet more people on Cat Island, at this time, not only adolescent girls, but deep connection. If there was a choice to escape from this world, would we, as human beings, choose to escape or face it bravely?
At Cat Island, Miyo meets a group of people who have given up their human identity and chosen to become companions of cats, who tell about the various ailments of being human. This point actually refers to a social problem in Japan that cannot be ignored - the "Higuya people".
In Japan, the "Higuyaku" who refuse to work, live and socialize are increasingly becoming a hidden danger to social development. In July 2019, Saito Huan, an expert on the issue of the Japanese ethnic group and psychiatrist, claimed that there may be about 2 million ethnic groups in Japan, more than the Japanese government's official estimate of 1.15 million. Simply rejecting all opportunities and changes because they don't want to face pressure and failure is very similar to the group in Cat Island who give up human identity to become cats.
In the movie, it also uses the transformation of the identity of another species to set off, and Miyo's cowardice and coldness behind this escape and choose to live in life. The "soybean powder" that wants to become a human is not because she envies the life expectancy and life of human beings to "take over" Miyo's life, the real reason why she wants to become a human is because she does not want her master Kaoru to fall into pain because of her relationship with Miyo. But when Huang Dou Fan saw Kaoru looking for her figure every day, and realized that even becoming a human could not replace Huang Dou Fan's position in Kaoru's mind, she did not hesitate to choose to change back into a cat. Even, at this moment, the "soybean powder" has entered the twilight of cat life.
Miyo's identity change is for escape, while Soybean Flour is for her. Life after changing from a human to a cat did not necessarily change at all, and under Miyo's questioning, they also showed remorse. However, at this time, regret does not help, there is no such thing as regret medicine in the world.
Therefore, "Infinity" is a wake-up call, and choosing to escape will certainly be easy for a while, but whether the rest of your life can accept to spend in another identity, the attitude of the cat people in Cat Island has given a very definite answer, which will only make people more frustrated. This film is far more than just a young girl growth film for low-collar children, but it carries a deeper adult connotation.
At the end of the film, Miyo is restored to humanity with the help of The Rising Sun, and Soyo-flour returns to her master. Everyone's life trajectory is back on track, changing, starting with their own initiative to open the door of their hearts. It is never the world that is closed, but ourselves.
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I prefer Infinity to the other title of the film, "I Want to Cry, I Put on the Mask of a Cat." Behind the seemingly arbitrary choices, there are many limited constraints involving themselves and those around them. Instead of trying to comfort people as soft cats, it is better to open your heart, remove the disguise on your face, and reshape your true self.
Although this is a fantasy movie about the love of young girls, behind the love is actually intertwined with many emotions such as family affection and friendship. Still a young girl in the growth period, when facing the emotions that cannot be dealt with, turning around and escaping is the most primitive protection mechanism, but after the heart is tempered, do not escape, face bravely, and step forward, it is also the growth of the heart after life gives many difficulties.
This summer, today's headlines of the healing anime movie "Infinity", I think it is still worth watching.