As another word-of-mouth masterpiece by Wes Anderson, this cartoon for adults, "Isle of Dogs", has a strong reputation.
In terms of visual structure, the film was once symmetrical to the extreme picture design, simply curing obsessive-compulsive disorder, more interesting is that this is completely a "into the dog world" film, which only humans say "human words", and the dogs in it talk, you can't understand, they don't speak "human words". At the beginning of the film, the film has already used "subtitles" to explain to the human view
The crowd – the barking of the dogs has been translated into English.
Of course, what is more attractive than the visual features and dubbing features must be an incomparably wonderful plot. As Wes Anderson is a very worthwhile masterpiece, it can be said that this movie Douban has a high score and is based on strength.
In Japan for the next ten days, canine flu suddenly raged. In order to curb the canine flu and complete his "conspiracy", Mayor Kobayashi enacted the Dog Exile Act, calling on citizens to throw their pet dogs on a "garbage island" far away from the city, so all the dogs in the city were "abandoned" to the island, like garbage, leaving them to fend for themselves on this desert island. What is more serious is that the ultimate fate of these dogs will be eliminated by gas bombs, so that the city will no longer have the creature of "dog".
In order to call on the citizens of the city to respond, the first dog to be released to this desert island is the mayor's guard dog, Diandian. And just as the city's citizens were answering the call, only a 12-year-old child came to Inujima to find his dog. His dog, just dots.
As the story in the film develops, the true identity of the little boy is gradually known, and it turns out that the distant cousin of the little boy is Mayor Kobayashi. The boy's parents were killed in an accident and he was adopted by Mayor Kobayashi. When the little boy was lying in the hospital with his whole body injured, it was this guard dog who accompanied him to protect him.
After the little boy flew to the isle of dogs, he met 5 dogs with different personalities, and with his sincerity, he impressed the dogs and produced a different friendship, and the dogs decided to help the little boy find something together. Initially, the arrogant chief was not friendly to the little boy, even a little hostile, but was eventually moved and became the little boy's companion, and together they crushed the mayor's plan like a small team.
It looks like it's about to end, but unfortunately, this movie is not a warm story, but a black fairy tale.
As an evolved higher animal, man possesses a higher and more complex mind, and gradually degenerates into the purest emotions, love, friendship, and unconditional trust. And the children are still there, and the dogs are still there. But sadly, the little boy gradually became the former, and the latter was still a dog.
After the little boy came to power, he easily discussed with politicians how to torture people who were "bad for the dog", and the first thing to do was the "death penalty", which made people think about it very carefully, and the kind little boy was now the second Kobayashi.
In addition, in this film, the most personality and pleasing to the audience dog, perhaps is the arrogant chief, as a dog with an independent personality, the chief still has a little "human touch". In the presence of seemingly powerful humans (because it may not think so), the chief tells the little boy to help you accompany you in and out of your way, not out of thin air, not to be domesticated, but because what you did made me gradually like you. It's about emotion, not about giving in. This is the ideal relationship between each other, even in the state of strength and weakness.
It is a bit of a pity that the dogs who thought they had been exiled returned to the city because they were struggling to gain a place in human society, or because they had made the human conscience discover and realize their indispensability in their own way, and so on, and the little boy who was still good and looking for a good friend dog came back with them.
Weak dogs are still attached to humans, fate is still determined by people, this seemingly not bad ending, but always feel some sense of instability, worry.
In the movie, dogs have unconditional trust in their owners, even if their owners are brainwashed by the "canine flu" conspiracy and abandoned to the garbage island, they are still willing to return to their owners without asking the cause. This may also be the way it should be.
So the other angle of this movie is probably about relationships, people and dogs, classes and classes, and maybe classes, which are always insurmountable.
This animation, which has many small plots that will make people move, is indeed not too warm a story.