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Recently, the bloody anime movie "Promea", produced by TRIGGER, supervised by Hiroyuki Imaishi, written by Kazuki Nakajima, and scored by Hiroyuki Sawano, was released in China.
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Unlike Makoto Shinkai's delicate and romantic realist painting style, the works produced by TRIGGER are more experimental in art style, and various innovations have been carried out visually. And director Imaishi Yang began to boldly explore painting in his first animation film "Falling Leaves", which led the supervision, so there was the birth of "Falling Leaves", which was regarded as an unpopular god with a sharp painting style.
And this "Promea" not only continues the director's consistent painting concept and art style, but also adds traditional Japanese cultural elements on the basis of innovation, such as "紙芝居", "Kabuki Kabuki", "Fire Elimination" (screenwriter Kazuki Nakajima is the screenwriter of "Troupe ☆ New Sense Line"), coupled with smooth and explosive fights, making people dazzled at the same time, but also afraid of missing every wonderful shot.
The art of "Promea" is based on the simplest geometric images, with seemingly chaotic and arbitrary combinations of color blocks, and in chaos and order, it presents a unity of artistic style. Under such a unique art style, the whole work also carries out this dialectical aesthetic of "unity of opposites" to the end in terms of setting.
From the beginning of the movie, it is a very exciting scene of "Song of Ice and Fire", the water of the cylinder is sprayed out into the ice of the cube, and then the ice of the cube "frames" the diamond-shaped flame, and finally breaks into various irregular polygons and disappears. The innovative setting of "fixing fire with ice" against common sense, placed in this film, bursts out a sense of vitality and blood under the reverse pull tension, which also brings a very big breakthrough to the visual effect.
Leo, who is a burner who "cannot live without burning", and Gallo, who has a "burning" enthusiasm to extinguish fires as a firefighter, the former's burning is his own attribute, and the latter's "burning" is a pursuit of responsibility and mission. In the play, Leo points out the "contradiction" in Gallo's language, but Gallo's "contradiction" is a portrayal of his implementation of his "fool" concept of two blood, which belongs to his inner unity.
With the climax of the film coming, "ice" and "fire" merge into one in the "union" of each other, and Leo becomes a "complete burner" under the influence of Gallo, not only to completely release his burning enthusiasm, but also to restrain himself, respect life, and guard the earth with flames.
In the end, the two successfully prevent the ship from leaving and save the planet. And finally, by creating a new "blue" flame to burn out the way the earth is destroyed, the "burners" will make the earth undergo a "baptism", a new look, and a unity of opposites realized by contradictory dialectics, and finally present a rhythm of life that lives towards death.
On the other hand, in order to strengthen the philosophical thinking caused by the sense of "contradiction", the film sets off the dialectical contradiction of the protagonist's opposition and unity through the logical contradiction of the villain. For example, Gu Lei, with the idea of saving some people, uses the burner as the fuel kinetic energy of the spaceship, but this is also accelerating the eruption of the volcano and the destruction of the earth.
His actions are diametrically opposed to what he insists on for humanity, contradicting logic. It also alludes to the destruction of the environment after the rapid development of our real world, which is actually a self-destructive behavior. For example, the questioning of the law in it echoes the absurdity of the "Twenty-second Military Rule", as well as the satire of the cult of personality, and so on.
Although these criticisms seem to be a bit outdated and less innovative in the present, the animated film "Promea" integrates such criticism into its overall painting, so that the text and the image picture achieve an intertextuality, from this point of view, "Promea" is a work that combines the core of the story with the metaphor of the picture.
In addition, in the shaping of the protagonist's character, in order to fit the overall pure artistic style, "Promea" also takes the minimalist and hot-blooded persona, and mobilizes the ignition point of the entire plot by achieving the ultimate in the male protagonist's hot blood.
Gallo, this character from beginning to end adhere to their own "burning" principle, and also took the initiative to "certify" themselves as a "バカ", and then in such a "バカ" way to complete their own passionate "burning" mission, this affirmation and belief in self-belief belongs to the character's strong spiritual background, but also the creative core of the main creative team wants to implement the "from the beginning to the end".
And this also coincides with the current "lying flat" thinking, we admit that "lying flat" is to make a confrontational sound, although in reality, we may not be able to complete the rebellion against certain things in the "lying flat" posture alone. But as fictional characters in fictional works, they can give us an impossible hope and show us a fantasy possibility.
Just as Gallo confessed to being a "バカ", he succeeded in trading world peace after implementing the spirit of "バカ". And here is essentially a return to a "Sisyphus spirit", Sisyphus seems to be pushing stones "forever", is there a successful day? If not, then go on "forever."
Of course, due to the two-hour space limit of the film, it is difficult to expand the character growth and more delicate plot settings in place, and inevitably there will be some criticisms of the plot that is too boring, the rhythm jumps, the emotional rendering is not in place, and the characters are flat.
But even so, this animation work, which focuses on burning hot blood films, can still pull us back to the late state of the middle two diseases that we used to chase day and night, and our hearts are still full of enthusiasm for the world and the future, and we must also dream of the future.
"Promea" is a combat fairy tale dedicated to our once incomparably idealistic, unrealistic dreams, and now gradually "lying flat" and growing into adults, evoking our distant but unforgettable memories of youth, and is also a film dedicated to the children who are dreaming and carrying hope, inspiring them to face difficulties and complete their youth journey with a pure heart.
Even if, in the end, can not escape the fate of being smoothed out by reality, but dreams are beautiful, Lewis Carroll wrote in the curly poem in "Alice in the Mirror" "What else can life be?" So why reject such an animated film that brings us a bloody dream?
I like the line "Is this flame crying?" It seems to be an ultimate question for the audience who are gradually growing up and burying the hot blood soul of the secondary two in a corner of their hearts, will the flame "cry"?