In July and August, there are many movies that fans are eagerly awaiting, such as "Spider-Man: The Hero Returns", "Late Night Canteen 2", "Day Face" and so on. At the just-concluded Shanghai Film Festival, the premiere of "Day Face" was actually hyped to a high price of 2,000 yuan, and fans lined up from the entrance of the Majestic Theater to the next traffic light in the dark. More than 1,000 tickets for "Late Night Canteen 2" are also sold in less than a minute after the ticket is issued, which shows the high popularity of the film. In contrast to popular movies, some films may not be so eye-catching, but they are unexpected, fascinating at first sight, bringing refreshing beauty to the hot summer, such as the following "Brisby Bear", which surprised and delighted the author.
The Shanghai International Film Festival has come to an end, and the Golden Jubilee Awards have also been settled. The fan group added from Douban suddenly became empty, and only then did I realize that the original film festival had left us and could only meet again next year. Because I did not grab the popular movies such as "Day Face" and "The Country of the Emperor", I was a little sad, and I could only hold the psychology of being able to live up to the shanghai trip with a little light on the film festival to see an unpopular movie "Brisby Bear". However, the last film festival did not live up to my hard work of driving between the two places, did not live up to my love of movies, and gave me such a love of movies at first sight without expectation, which was surprising and joyful.
▲ "Brisby Bear" poster
"Brisby Bear" is a film that is both witty and warm, and the sense of purity conveyed by the film can melt people - the original dream can be so pure, it turns out that as long as you want to do something, the whole world will come to help you, and all difficulties will be solved.
"Brisby Bear", as the name suggests, is a film full of innocence about the filmmaker's journey. Kyle Mooney's male protagonist James has been a big fan of the children's show "Brisby Bear" since childhood, and his love for it has reached an almost faith-based level. Until one day, he had been living with his parents and was told by the police that he had been kidnapped since he was a child, and the so-called parents were actually kidnappers, and this show was also specially produced for him by the kidnappers and couples, and he was the only audience on the show.
When James, who had been imprisoned for nearly 25 years, was found by his original family, his life began to change dramatically. Not only was he dazed and ignorant of this new world, but what was most difficult for him to accept was that the Brisby Bear, which had been with him for 25 years, existed in the TV series that had never been broadcast, but had disappeared. When he learned that film was the medium of communication that could make the story of Brisby Bear widely known, he resolutely embarked on the road of film.
▲ Male protagonist James (played by Kyle Mooney)
At a glance, the setting of the characters in the film is somewhat similar to "Room" and "Truman's World", but in fact, the prison scene is more like a gimmick, in addition to isolating the james from the outside world, I really don't know which door is imprisoned? The adoptive parents who imprisoned James originally wanted to abduct him because they felt that James was like their own children, and during the period of imprisonment, they also poured out their love and cared for James meticulously, directing and acting in hundreds of episodes of the "Brisby Bear" series to accompany James.
In the film, evil is not unforgivable evil, lies are only white lies, and the world is not chaotic and heinous. On the contrary, the goodwill of human nature has always existed, and even the most vicious people who are judged to be "human traffickers" will have a licking feeling. Like the heinous big devil in the film who separated himself from his parents for more than 20 years, James did not hate too much. Impressively, when James went to visit the prison, he asked his adoptive father to voice the big movie, and then the adoptive father popped out of his mouth with a particularly contradictory cartoon sound that made the audience laugh. As if in an instant, the image of the great demon head disappeared, and the 20 years of grace and resentment disappeared.
"Brisby Bear" is a story of chasing dreams and a story of self-healing. When James returns to his original family and finds that his traces have been erased as merely "captive", he tries to recover his past, because there are his childhood and adolescence, his most familiar and beloved "Brisby Bear", and his crush on the little sister.
James's act of uploading clips of "Brisby Bear" to the Internet is his self-healing, making everyone admit that "Brisby Bear" is not just a fake TV series, as if his previous life was not fake, it once existed vividly.
After this TV series was loved by so many people, James came up with the idea of making a big movie, that is, the beginning of the dream, James wanted to share his thoughts and experiences with everyone through the form of movies.
James's dedication to the film is actually a true portrayal of many directors, just like the james in the film was blocked by his parents when he made the big movie "Brisby Bear", and the choice of the internationally renowned director Ang Lee to engage in film has also been opposed by his father, and the father of the scholar concept has always been angry about the "third-rate" profession he engaged in.
In order to make a realistic explosion effect, James does not hesitate to risk his life to seem to be "the second person in the world", but there is such a strange director in the film circle - Fang Yuping. Fang Yuping's obsession with realism made him often hide from the actors to make his fake plays real.
James met his best friend for special effects, and it abounds in film circles: director Wong Kar-wai and royal cinematographer Du Kefeng, director Spielberg and royal soundtrack George Lucas, and so on.
When James made his debut film "Brisby Bear", he hid in the toilet and did not dare to come out, and the psychological activity of fearing that the audience would be disappointed and worried after watching it would also be staged in every director.
▲ "Brisby Bear" promotional video
Perhaps "Brisby Bear" is James's last film, or it has since opened the door to the film world for James. But in any case, the small clip of the "Brisby Bear" movie at the end of the film strings together the fragments of the previous film.
It was a farewell to his 25 years of life, a way to perceive society and integrate into society, a elixir for self-healing; for the audience, it was a happy journey and a wonderful adventure about light and shadow, returning to the purest world - a world of black and white, never evil.
Although the amazing dark horse films of the Festival abound, such as "Fundraising Storm" and "Train Driver's Diary" and so on. But "Brisby Bear" weaves a warm dream for the harsh reality in the way of "making a movie". In the dream, the boy transforms into a man, understands and tolerates the imperfect world, calmly bids farewell to the past, and simply bravely faces the unknown tomorrow. He finally became his own hero.
Hopefully, everyone has a Brisby bear in their hearts, and when wounded in the adult world, it can still evoke our first yearning and purest dreams.
Text : Li Zijun
Edited by: Fore Magic Song, Meng Xiaodu