Unlike other theatrical versions of classics that constantly require audiences to immerse themselves in fictional stories, Finding the Little Witch Doremi takes a risky step at the beginning. That is, the protagonist is directly set as a guest group who will enter the scene to see this work, the audience that was not more than ten years old at that time, the primary school student protagonist group of the original work, today is almost exactly thirty or so, and the movie sets the largest girl in the three female protagonists to be twenty-seven years old, so the customer group can be said to be very clear.
Narrowness and clarity are of course only a line apart, in the original, the little witch Doremi protagonist group is female, even the pet elves they will grow up are women, and the supreme ruler of the wizarding world is the queen.
You can't find a male word corresponding to "magical girl", of course, this game also has male characters, whether as a father, or as a friend, or as a villain but in fact mainly plays a funny role of Master Diga, and "Witch" corresponds to "magician". There are many problems caused by men in this work, such as causing resentment from the former queen, or bad deeds such as trying to steal female babies... The clan is too busy to be loaded.
The three heroines of this film all suffer from male problems, in order of age, they are Kawatani Reika, who came out to work very early, she loves to draw and expects to become a painting restorer, but because she has made a wasted boyfriend, she can only postpone the plan to go abroad and continue to work.
Then there's Nagase, a senior soon to become a teacher, whose goal of becoming a teacher is purely indoctrinated by her parents, and she also found that she cares more about one of the little boys with learning disabilities than everyone in the class.
Finally, mizuru Yoshizuki, an office worker who grew up abroad and returned to a large company and developed for the company to African customers, but was suppressed because of the male-dominated workplace culture.
The main line of the movie is about the audience who have watched "Little Witch Doremi" at different times and through different channels, incarnated into a road movie full of distress who has just entered society or is about to enter society, and after a chance encounter in front of the prototype of the Magic Hall, they go to various famous scenes of their favorite works and eat and drink all the way, and then talk about life troubles in the liquor store at night.
Of course, the various uses of the meme of "Little Witch Doremi", as well as peripheral goods such as magic balls or borons, various famous line stickers, and directly review how the little witches solved life problems during quarrels when watching DVDs, which is in line with the "character is a fan" Setting also makes people laugh, which reminds people of a work that pays special attention to materialism and reality from the beginning.
Because in the end, from the beginning, "Little Witch Doremi" is a work of realistic logic in a magical skin, because this whole story begins when Doremi accidentally discovers the identity of the witch and begins to pull her friends into the pit to become a trainee witch.
But when the apprentice witch is not like Harry Potter and his party, they can pay tuition fees and promote year after year as long as they rely on the support of their parents or relatives, or a legacy of Gringotts.
As apprentice witches, the little witches most of the time have to earn money to obtain magic balls to cast spells by labor that cannot be replaced by magic, whether it is jewelry or biscuits, or other goods they develop, even if the feather moon and notes are in better condition at home, and also have to face the competition from rival shops.
And they actually have to prepare for exams to be promoted to become witches, not to mention that they are obviously elementary school students, but outside of school life, they not only take care of the shop business, but also take care of a baby with powerful magic.
Secondly, even if you can put magic, you can't cast it randomly, otherwise you will be injured, and you will become a frog when you expose the identity of the witch, basically the only function of magic is just to push it, and in the end, the completion of things or the growth of the character still depends on yourself.
Like the magic stage that must be assembled by many people to release, it often summons some daily items that the little witches can't figure out, but will come in handy in the subsequent story and make the little witches suddenly "epiphany", which is completely different from the exaggerated performance of the "magical girl Xiaoyuan" who also talks about "the price" that came out later, even if the meaning is to show that "there is no free lunch in the world".
So in this film, magic is luck at the beginning, just as this work allows the three to meet by chance, just like the magic ball allows Li Xiang, who wished to see her disappearing father, reunited.
However, after seeing him, his father did not want to recognize Li Xiang, because he was sick and emaciated, and he could not face his ex-wife and his daughter who had been abandoned in front of another pair of wives and daughters.
And Li Xiang also found that she was not ready to face her father, so under her father's obvious lie of "you recognize the wrong person", Li Xiang directly collapsed, and then walked out of the ward and vented her anger in the stairwell in front of Mei Ling, who asked them to "re-believe in magic".
"You want us to believe in magic again!"
However, the magic did work, but it did not achieve the desired result of the person who made the wish. So the film goes from the setbacks brought by magic to the opportunities for self-reflection brought by setbacks, and there is a possibility of change after self-reflection, and this is to bring out the real magic hidden in the three heroines.
In this regard, although "In Search of the Little Witch Doremi" has taken a dangerous path, setting the protagonists as a generation that grew up watching "Little Witch Doremi" rather than a new generation as a trainee witch for the audience to continue to pursue the drama with a nostalgic mentality, but its core spirit is unchanged, that is, to tell the audience that there is no unearned magic in the world.
At the climax of the whole play, the film arranges a scene in the magic hall where the audience has long been absent from the original little witches "appearing", in that scene, in addition to the little witches, there are three heroines wearing little witch costumes when they were young.
Watching them fly one by one with a broomstick to the night sky full of stars and moons, the audience's memories must have been completely exploded with the familiar soundtrack, at that time, we all believed that freedom was in our hands and the world lurked in the magical world for us to explore...
True magic is in the depths of the soul buried in the dust of reality. It is a memory, and what the memory evokes is courage, it is hope, it is love... Only with these characters can they face the harsh real world, change themselves, and face challenges.
Just like the audience on the big screen must face the real world the next day, must change themselves, must face challenges, witches are immortal, but the little witches in the human world must continue to walk and continue to grow.