"Good film, but don't want to watch it a second time"
This is the one with the most likes under its comments.
It's called Unma's House, and it's an 81-minute animated film produced in Japan in 1997. You may not have heard of it, but in 1997, it won the Best Asian Film Award at the Asian Fantasy Film Festival, and still maintains a Douban rating of 8.9 and imDb 7.9, and has been used as a model for academic animation films for more than two decades.
It is a purely female film about the chaotic life of an idol singer. Many famous later films, including "Black Swan", "Requiem for Dreams", and "Masquerade", were deeply influenced by it, and many deliberately imitated the bridge sections of the work.
<h1>Animation for kids? never</h1>
In 2008, a free exhibition called "Ten Years of Souvenirs" was held in Shinjuku, Japan, and the significance of the exhibition was held to commemorate the "Unma's House" from ten years ago.
In the early 1990s, although Japanese animation had such profound works as "Mobile Police 2: Defense of Tokyo", because the slogan of Studio Ghibli founded by Hayao Miyazaki was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the audience's view that animation was still stuck in the view of "childish stories for children", and Japanese animators who disagreed with Miyazaki's concept of animation made a case: "Animation cannot continue like this." Oshii created Ghost in the Shell, Hideaki Anno created EVA, Ryutaro Nakamura and Yoshitoshi Abe made Reijin a year before the release of The Matrix, and Imatoshi went all out for "Unmaked Budya" after finishing the script and art setting of the "Memories Trilogy".
2017 Live-Action Movie Ghost in the Shell
The production of "Unma's House" is an uphill battle for Imatoshi: fighting with time - zero foundation, making an animated film from scratch in a year, fighting with the audience - how to make the audience want to stop.
The "audience longs to be deceived" principle applies to any film production. The reason why the cinema is blinded by the black lights is to better immerse the audience in the world of the one-and-a-half-hour screen. If you are not deceived by the director when you watch the movie, watch the fire from the other side, and cannot enter the play, this is obviously the failure of the director. In his first film as a director, Imatoshi used the method of deceiving the audience to the extreme: montage, the intersection of dreams and reality, hypnosis, violent performance, and a lot of sexual innuendo.
This film completely breaks the stereotype that animation is a childish work for children. "The House of the Unma" is completely a suspense masterpiece that is not lost to a live-action movie, and Japan's Amazon gives a five-star rating, giving the evaluation that "the first director has such a strong impact". The film is classified in the United States as an R-rated (restricted) film, with a large number of violent and sexual scenes, which is the first true adult animation.
<h1>A true feminist film</h1>
Let's first take a look at the so-called "feminism" in Marvel's "Captain Marvel" released in March this year:
Captain Marvel, known as the "strongest in history", is proud and contemptuous in the face of the tragic situation on Earth, the defeat of the Avengers seems to be just a little drama to her, the opportunities they fight for their lives are easy for her, and she has the universe in mind and has no time to play these little games of theirs. She has short hair, squints her eyes, hangs the corners of her mouth, and looks down on the sentient beings, as if blurring her femininity can make her look more indestructible.
Reunion 4 full field soy sauce, the end suddenly clocked in to work "alone to destroy the enemy ship". A scene of the "Women's Federation" during the War, she is in the C position, behind the heroines stand, as if she represents the power of women. But every woman behind her who was weaker than her was much more real and full than she was, and they used their vulnerability to bear the pain and be strong in the pain, not to mention the widow, even if the Crimson Witch who killed her own nebula in the past and lost everything, was stronger than her, more suitable as a symbol of women.
Feminism, not shaving short hair, blurring gender marks, self-righteousness to judge everything and manipulate everything, is not feminism, it is a retaliatory and clumsy imitation of the patriarchal society.
Captain Marvel is a perfect symbol of objectification, a variation of men's innermost sexual fantasies, a regression to portraying female figures on the silver screen.
The famous director Cameron ("Avatar", "Titanic") commented on the female characters in his works: He thinks that Sarah in "Terminator" has this to say. Connor is not a perfect icon, she has many problems, she is a bad mother, but she survived, she is strong, her tenacity and courage have won the respect of the audience. Such a character is real and great, flesh and blood.
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Let's go back to "The House of the Unhemp": the story of a female star who is not deeply involved in the world and falls into a multiple personality schizophrenia after encountering a strong [beep].
"Beautiful Girl" is her label at the beginning of The Beautiful Girl, and it is also her shackles, and if you want to achieve your ideals, sooner or later you will get rid of this label. But this label once brought enviable fame and fortune to Wei Ma, and when she abandoned this transformation, she had to start from scratch and cut through thorns in new areas.
The process of starting again is always difficult and tortuous, not to mention in the ever-changing entertainment circle. Soon, a bizarre serial murder case is related to Wei Ma.
In the process of showing the uneven, difficult, and dangerous actor's path, Imatoshi repeatedly uses montages to create amazing scene reversal effects. The audience speculated again and again about the future and encounters of Wei Ma, and was overturned again and again. The psychological pressure of Wei Ma in the process of transformation is also vividly reflected in the scene switching between true and false, and the audience can truly feel the confusion between reality and illusion because Wei Ma is difficult to bear the harm brought to her by the entertainment industry.....
After the confusing interlacing of virtual and real, it is the second major reversal of the plot - the real murderer who continuously killed the people around Wei Ma and made Wei Ma suffer criticism was actually the agent Liu Mei who was closest to her. The reason why Rumi killed her was only out of her fascination with the image of the perfect idol that Unma once had. The film has reached a height that Captain Marvel cannot reach here, and the false, perfect, and infinitely powerful female figure shown by Captain Marvel is easily killed in the unhemped room, because it is not a real woman, just a beautifully packaged gift box.
There may be self-sufficiency and mavericks in this world, but whether eternal innocence like Peter Pan exists is doubtful. Everyone has to go through growth, but they grow in different directions. The price paid in the process of growing up is inevitable, and it does not necessarily make people better and better, but if a person refuses to grow and willingly degenerates, then all that awaits her is the oblivion of the world.
The end of the film, the third major reversal of the plot, reflects the mental state of Wei Ma after experiencing all this. After visiting Liumei in the hospital, he smiled in the car and smiled in the mirror when he left:
"I'm the real thing."
She was no longer the fragile girl, but a snake with a beautiful pattern.
Here we are not saying that the image of the unma in the film - a girl who has experienced pain and suffering has finally grown into a seasoned Vanity Fair master, wearing a mask, and the appearance of invulnerable poison is the perfect image of women, but what this story symbolizes - women with natural and inevitable disadvantages, not to escape, not to cling to men, nor to whitewash themselves, disguised as an indestructible goddess image, but the courage to face themselves, accept themselves, fight with pain, continue to grow, and live for themselves - It's the real feminist.