First of all, I personally feel that "Little Door God" is such a quiet and thorough animated film with "human nature, life, and emotion first". The exquisite and delicate painting style presents a lot of beautiful scenery and ultra-realistic realistic texture, absolute visual enjoyment, and good sensory experience.
This movie tells the story of the two small door gods recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": Shendi and Yulei!
A well-known story of the door god, in our traditional mythological stories, the door god is the god who guards the door, every year in the Lunar New Year, every household will paste the door god New Year painting to express the good wishes of warding off evil and eliminating disasters and welcoming good fortune.
However, with the rapid process of urban modernization, the Door God New Year Painting gradually faded out of people's vision, and the higher the house was repaired, the less traces of the Door God Year Painting were found.
The story of "Little Door God" is the reason for this, in the movie, the gods and immortals gradually lost the respect of the human world because of the arrival of the new era, resulting in many gods and immortals doing nothing, and the economy of the celestial realm was depressed, so a major reform of the examination and competition for the gods was launched. There are fewer and fewer mortals in the human world, so few that there is only one, and the two door gods, Shendi and Yulei, are also facing the danger of being laid off and unemployed in the Divine Realm, and even have to go to the Training Center of the Divine Realm to receive reemployment training, and they have a very unsatisfactory life in the Tiangong Reemployment Training Center. Shendi was even dismissed from the priesthood because he was not qualified in training, which was very miserable and sad. Yu Lei decides to take a desperate risk and release the imprisoned legendary monster Nian, so that the world can continue to believe in these gods! Thus, a great adventure in the human divine realm began.
On the one hand, Yu Lei's efforts to turn the tide and break through the layers of barriers continued his obsession, on the other hand, Shen Di wiped his ass behind him to clean up the mess, and helplessly broke the rules of the Celestial Realm to break into the human world.
Immortals are difficult to do and ordinary and small people also have their own troubles and sorrows.
At this time, the Jiangnan town in the human world, the single mother and daughter Xiaoying and Yu'er, for various reasons, returned from the bustling metropolis to their hometown town life, inheriting grandma's century-old wonton stew shop, but with the development of the times and the change of customer tastes, as well as the destruction and disturbance of competitors, the business of the old store has become difficult. In order for their old wonton shop to survive and survive smoothly, the little girl Yu'er and her mother are also very difficult, coupled with the malicious attacks of unfriendly competitors, which is undoubtedly worse.
"Easy, poor is change, change is general, general is long". Single mother and daughter Xiaoying and Yu'er guarded the dismal operation of the century-old shop. Only a few of the more archaic older people will occasionally come to eat bowls of wontons, and young people will rush to the Western-style fast food next door. At first, they stuck to the old soup that had been on fire for a hundred years, and the taste was unchanged; until by chance, the plum blossoms floated into the soup bowl, and the slight changes caused the business to flourish. The loss of old traditions is the inevitable development of society, and how to pass it on in the loss is the eternal proposition of human thinking.
In order to find his own existence value in the divine world and maintain his position as a door god, the door god Yu Lei decided to go back to the human world to open the three seals of the "year", and the door god God Di also went to the human world in order to prevent him, in the process, the two door gods and Xiaoying and Yu'er, the mother and daughter, met and a series of magical stories occurred.
Shen Di and Yu Lei, Xiao Ying and Yu Er, the four people are actually facing different worlds, because their inner desires are different: for dignity, for friendship, for life, for dreams, but also let the encounter be full of warm happiness, the world is wonderful because of difference.
Yu Lei's decision to release the Nian Beast was impulsive, and he had absolutely no intention of hurting others, let alone creating chaos in the world.
Yu Lei is honest, and would rather sacrifice himself than change the world. However, after breaking the seal three times, his energy consumption became more and more old, and once the spring water in the human world dried up, once the plant withered, and once the world was in chaos.
Yu Lei is one of the door gods, he is proud, serious, extreme, impulsive, stubborn, unwilling to the status quo, he hopes to change everything;
The same door god, Shendi and Yu Lei have very different personalities, he is funny, simple, very good personality, can follow the rules, can be at ease with the encounter, and can also be satisfied with the status quo;
Rain is an ordinary little girl, but also a cute little Lori, she is cute, smart, brave, kind, and has the most innocent and exquisite heart.
Yu'er's mother Xiaoying was once a migrant worker who wandered in the city, after Yu'er's grandmother was weak, she took the initiative to return to her hometown to take over her mother's century-old wonton stall, she may not have proud achievements, may not have the capital to show off, but carries the most essential and simple things in people's hearts. A single mother with her daughter alone, not to be defeated, not to accept defeat, the courage to innovate, with their own actions and sweat, to save the fate and future of a family, such a brave, responsible and good mother makes people awe-inspired.
A myth is like a wave, a myth is a monument. They all disappear easily, but they are all deeply rooted.
Text/Si Xi Qinghe
Pictured/Derived from an online movie poster
2020.5.19