Based on Takaki Nobuko's novel Utopian Shinko, Utopian Shinko and directed by Miyazaki's deputy Nao Katafuchi, Utopian Shinko and The Magic of a Thousand Years is a Japanese anime film that has an excellent reputation and popularity around the world.
The anime is mainly about the 30th year of Showa, located in The City of Fangfu in Yamaguchi Prefecture, and is a beautiful place surrounded by mountains and rivers and fresh air. Aoki Shinko, who is in the third grade of elementary school, grew up here since she was a child, and she likes to listen to her grandfather's stories about the ancient kingdom of this small town thousands of years ago. One day, a transfer student from the metropolis walked into Shinko's class. This woman, Takako Shimazu, has fair skin and is well educated, very different from the children born and raised. Shinko becomes friends with the slightly restrained Kiiko, and leads Kiiko into this pastoral life full of fantasy and magic.
The highlight of this animation is its fresh and unworldly human art, the beautiful pastoral picture makes people look very healing; and the delicacy of the scene is surprising, and many seemingly careless details can always arouse strong resonance from the audience.
Animation is from the perspective of a child to illustrate the world full of happiness, magic and beauty in the eyes of children. The protagonist Xinzi likes to listen to his grandfather tell stories since he was a child, likes to run to the large field next to home to play, likes to lie in the grass to see the blue sky, likes to pick flowers with his friends, play in the water, adventure, etc., all of which are scenes that everyone has experienced in childhood, and this animation can be beautifully portrayed. In particular, the playful, energetic, fantasy and curiosity of children is presented very realistically, making the audience feel empathy, as if they are back in childhood, in a carefree countryside. So "when 'New Son' was released at the Ottawa Animation Festival, Canadian audiences said, 'This is the story of my childhood.'" When it was released in Italy, the Italian audience had the same feeling. Went to France to release the film, French children after watching it and think this is themselves. ”
However, in this anime, there are some plot arrangements that the audience may not understand very well, such as the story line about a girl named Noko a thousand years ago, and why Tatsuyoshi's father committed suicide. Regarding these, in fact, in the director's film Shishu Nao was interviewed, it has been explained: For this "girl of a thousand years ago", Katashi explained that "this connection between a thousand years ago and modern times is actually to reflect such a theme in the work: children generally do not think much, they will only think for themselves." As for the death of Tatsuyoshi's father, Katashinasu nao explained that "Tatsuyoshi's father, judging by his age, thinks he has been on the battlefield." He demands that he must be a hero, but as a hero, he has a relationship with the underworld. He eventually could not bear this contradiction and finally ended his own life with his own hands. ”
In fact, in the editor's opinion, the arrangement of these plots is indeed a bit unnecessary, and the connection between the plots is a bit far-fetched. But no matter what, this animation is still very successful on the whole! Although there are many heavy and serious elements in the work, they are well downplayed, leaving the audience with more "the feeling of playing in childhood". It is also like this that many people have watched "Utopian New Son and Millennium Magic" many times, "and some people have even watched it more than a hundred times"! And because of the excellence of this work, the audience has spread word of mouth, so that "Utopian New Son and Millennium Magic" has been watched and recognized by more and more audiences!
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