We used to be a child who loved to dream, the distant past, the lost dream, not a trace of corruption because of money and the world, may you become your own dreamer.
- Quotes from today
I remember that on August 24 last year, the animation industry and the film and television industry were all speaking out to commemorate a person on this day, and even privately issued him with a "dream-making badge", he was the animation master Mr. Imatoshi, and this day was the tenth anniversary of Imatoshi's death.
Time is an important yardstick for testing the classics, ten years later will be remembered and remembered, this person's influence can be said to have crossed the boundaries of time and space, Imatoshi is known as the "dream master" of the animation industry, there are not many works, but it is a classic, and every dream he constructs in the imaginary kingdom of animation is intoxicating.
Imatoshi left 4 full-length animations before his death, and when he died, there was also an unfinished animation "Dream Machine", which became his regret, just like the four and a half kung fu movies left by Bruce Lee that year, and he was admired by posterity.
Imatoshi's talent and achievements in the field of "Dream Animation" have reached their peak, and the most representative of Imatoshi's dream-making kingdom is "Red Hot Chili Peppers", also known as "Inception Detective".
In 2010, Nolan's Inception is conceptually similar to Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, released in 2006, is an earlier fantasy suspense story about dreams and the last full-length animation of Imatoshi.
Because of its abstraction and artistic conception, Imatoshi's works are difficult to understand, not only the expression methods are strange and strange, but also in the form of dreams in the animation, many reflections on reality, attacks on bad culture, and irony of hypocritical forces are expressed, which is very obscure, like a fantasy and far-reaching work of art.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" is adapted from Yasutaka Tsutsui's sealed work "Dream Detective", which is a representative work of Imatoshi's dreams, and the ultimate talent of the "Dream Master" is revealed in this animated film, and the name of the animation ghost has risen to a height that almost no one can match.
The work tells the story of a beautiful psychologist Atsuko Chiba and the genius scientist Shi Tianhaozuo jointly invented an instrument that can spy on the patient's dream "DC MINI", by transforming the patient's dream to achieve the effect of treating psychological trauma, and this invention still has unknown risks, but this instrument was stolen, which triggered a number of dream intrusion suicide incidents, the invention that was used to benefit mankind has now become a hazard, and even has the evil consequence of destroying the world.
Atsuko incarnated as an inception detective Red Hot Chili Peppers into the patient's dream investigation, she is a dream therapist, with the special ability to experience the dreams of others at the same time, in the investigation has also been calculated, terrorists want to use "DC MINI" to manipulate people's dreams, in an attempt to subvert reality, so as to control the world.
Red Hot Chili Peppers, in order to save the real world that is facing collapse due to the influence of dreams, engages in a fantastic struggle with the enemy that is mixed with reality and dreams.
The film contains a large number of metaphors, in the strange dream, through the psychological level of the characters to show the real world of distortion, decadence, hypocrisy, cruel social phenomena, the fickle scenes are like fragmented pictures, seemingly unrelated, bizarre and strange, exaggerated and chaotic fragments, under the frightening brain hole and camera creativity of Imatoshi, everything becomes logical.
Among them are people who commit suicide by jumping off buildings side by side, otaku who have turned into mobile phones to kneel and shoot the bottom of JK skirts, politicians who have hyped up voting slogans... There are also the root causes that show the deep soul of the characters, the regret of failing to complete the ideals of the past, the ambitious dark desires, and the redemption appeals of losing themselves... You can find the answer in your dreams.
All the strange dreams have become the fantasy suspense story elements in this work, the dream is originally weird, it is an illusory projection of the psychology, and Imatoshi connects the reflection of the dream with reality, and cleverly depicts a rich and brilliant and suspenseful dream scene.
The story of "Red Hot Chili Peppers" is very obscure, and I actually feel a little boring in the early stages when I watch it, because the obscure shots and shots are all throughout, but when you are willing to spend some patience to watch it, this is simply a brain-opening visual feast, vivid lens switching, retro and technological scene modeling, covering a huge amount of information, non-ordinary commercial animation can be compared.
The exquisite and smooth sense of graphics, even in the eye-catching dream of the degree of change, still presents a high-quality production standard, almost zero flaws, all say that Miyazaki hayao is the devil of the animation world, if I say, Imatoshi is not too much in this regard.
Many film directors have thought of bringing the fantasy story of Red Hot Chili Peppers to the big screen, but the magical imagination in Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel is difficult to turn into a visual picture through the lens of the movie, the story itself is composed of countless abstract and complex dreams, so "Dream Detective" has a name in the film field as "a novel that cannot be made into a movie".
Original writer Yasutaka Tsutsui gave "Red Hot Chili Peppers" a high evaluation, saying that the dream scenes in the animated film were the most realistic pictures he wanted to express, and Imatoshi retained the bizarre style in the original book, even clearer and simpler.
This is a work of art, must not be regarded as a general commercial film, in fact, the style of master Imatoshi's work is almost always wandering in reality and dreams, this master tells the ethical phenomena of real society in his dreams, he dedicates his energy in this life to animation, and he is really an awe-inspiring man.
Before his death, Imatoshi left his last words: "I will put down my pen and go with gratitude for all the good things in the world", as well as the unfinished animation work "Dream Machine".
He went to the world of dreams and continued his dream-making journey.
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Author: Untouchables