Today brings an anime movie that has been regarded as a classic by countless people, and this movie is only a short 40 minutes or so. But its Douban score is as high as 8.9 points, more than 320,000 people scored, "better than 95% of cartoons" and "better than 98% of romance films", this movie is classified in the "highest rated animated films" column.
And ranking 138th in the Douban movie TOP250 can be described as a miraculous existence. The film is Midorikawa's original "Mori of Fireworks", which was released in Japan on September 11, 2011. The following year, "Mori of Fireworks" won the "Best Animated Film Award" at the 66th Mainichi Film Competition.
The dark green forest, the green hills, and the mist in the forest, the dark tones open the film to create a hazy and poignant mood, which sets a poignant and beautiful main tone for the whole film.
The film tells a story about a little girl, Takekawa Hotaru, who was 6 years old, when she came to her grandfather's house for a vacation, but accidentally broke into the legendary Mountain God Forest full of monsters. Just when she was anxious because she was lost, a big boy wearing a fox mask appeared in front of her, and the little girl thought that she had found a human and excitedly wanted to pounce on her, but the boy stopped her with a stick and told the little girl that he was not human and could not touch humans, because he would disappear if he was touched by humans. Despite this, the little girl is very happy, tells the boy her name, and leads Hotaru to find her way home. When they parted, Hotaru told the boy that he would come to play with him next summer, and the boy also told Hotaru his name, and the two began to look forward to it.
In later days, Hotaru and Silver became good friends, and they played together in every corner of the forest. In this way, every summer, Hotaru will come to the forest as promised to meet his good friend Silver. She kept her agreement with Silver and did not touch Silver's body under any circumstances, and Silver waited for her at the agreed place. Gradually, as they get older, both Hotaru and Silver's feelings for each other quietly change, and they look forward to the day of reunion and hug each other.
Summer ends with the swaying of wind chimes, the sound of cicadas fades, and we can't go back to the past.
"Summer has passed" in the Japanese cultural context means that beautiful things will eventually pass away, we all have to learn to grow up, in line with the idea of "material sorrow", although the cherry blossoms have fallen, but the fleeting beauty is frozen in the clear sky, sealed in everyone's memory, although the summer has passed, but the things that once happened in the summer, those landscapes, will still be reflected in the eyes of the firefly, emerging in the dream, converging into the undercurrent of the soul...
The Forest of Fire, which tells a story of growth and parting, the train, often symbolizes the sense of distance and time in Japanese animation, when it starts slowly, it always brings people some uncertain anxiety, and the scenery that flows outside the window is the trace of our slow growth.
In the entire anime, Hotaru only cries twice: once, after falling from a tree, she looked at Silver's outstretched and retracted hand, and with tears in her eyes, she smiled and said, "Please promise me, don't touch me at any time." "Once it was after Silver mistakenly touched the human boy and disappeared into a little fluorescent moment. She threw herself into his arms crying and laughing, completing the initial and final embrace.
Fireflies represent reality, silver represents illusion, and the setting that "touch" disappears means "distance".