Ordinary life also has great power
The movie "London Family" is adapted from a comic book, based on the real life experience of the author's parents, telling the story of an old couple in London, England, who have been together and walked through life hand in hand. The author uses hand-drawn animations to present the life of his parents from love at first sight to the end of their lives, interspersed with various ups and downs in British history, such a seemingly flowing account of the big era and small character narrative.
The film has finished its life like a running account, and also combed through the history of the early to late 20th century (or, just the history of London) The two met and accompanied each other from 1928 to 1971 and left this world successively, during which they experienced World War II, experienced separation, reunion, no matter how turbulent, they have each other, never abandoned, until the end of life.
In addition to the impact of the war, the film is still quite happy to be honest, and now that I am older, I am afraid to watch this kind of work that spans people's lives... Although I know that life, old age, illness and death are the common feelings of people, I can't help but sigh and feel sad when I see the end.
Step by step, the film depicts the slow economic recovery of the British from the depressed 1960s. Like most families, although this family has experienced the changes of the great era of war, but they have been through the danger, so they are lucky and ordinary, those real "family destruction" stories are far away from us, pain and torture are very fortunate not to happen around, we see more is a family noisy, not abandoned life.
A love word warmer than "I love you" should be "there I am".
Through "A Family in London", we see the perspective of the little people in that big environment at that time, no matter how difficult the days were, they all lived plainly and steadily, often the policies proposed by the state, the couple honestly abided by, such as: sending their sons to the countryside to avoid bombing; stipulating the amount of water used in the bathtub; calling on young men to become firefighters, etc.
The husband and wife are five years apart in age, they are sister-brother love, and after Issel gave birth to Raymond at the age of 35, the couple decided to give up the dream of a big family and no longer have children.
In fact, the core of "London Family" belongs to the commoners, Raymond himself in the creation, but also integrated a lot of personal color, but never prejudice, the film also inherits this point of the original, the civilian life shows vividly, with objective documentary meaning. It looks ordinary, but in fact, it is not ordinary, and the film integrates the nearly fifty years of British history into the lives of these ordinary people.
It seems to be a random sentence in the life of chai rice oil and salt, but in fact, it reflects the thoughts of the people at that time, and this clever approach, that is, does not destroy the warm style of the film, but also properly reflects the impact of the war on ordinary families.
But the biggest feature of the film is still - ordinary
Ordinary enough to make you feel that this is your parents, your story, and The same warm style and moving story as Japanese animation, but the way it is told is completely different, but in the warm story, there must be a big ending, and finally the wife suffers from Alzheimer's disease, even the husband does not know, and soon after he died, and then the husband has a heart attack and also goes.
The ordinary life of the two ended in this way, and with it came the history of Britain, the memories of that generation.
The British animation industry began in 1930 with short films, with the first feature film, Animal Farm, born in 1954.
British animation is very influential in the history of world animation, especially stop-motion animation, both technically and artistically in the world's leading level, the United Kingdom is a European country with such a long history, is a multicultural society, the birth of world celebrities like Shakespeare, Newton and Bacon.
Although at the beginning of the invention of animation, British animation did not develop rapidly, but in the subsequent development process, it was also a step by step solid step. The picture book "The London Family" is a household name in the United Kingdom, and in the 1970s, Raymond's parents and wife died, and he came up with a funny comic strip model to describe family life.
The little people gained an independent voice in "The London Family".
I like the hand-drawn style of this animation, although it is a plain and trivial life account, it makes people feel very warm, yes, it is also extremely beautiful to go through a lifetime like this. Hand-drawn animation has also become two-dimensional hand-drawn animation, is drawn by animators with a pen on paper, multiple drawings together to make an animation, with the development of the Internet and digital technology, many hand-drawn animations have gradually become people's memories.
And "London Family" author Raymond, also inspired by domestic animation, if your age stage belongs to the 70s or 80s, then you will not forget the "Snow Child" produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio when you were a child, which made countless children cry until they gasped, which is an animation that makes us remember deeply in childhood, which is based on Raymond's "Snowman" created in 1978.
British animation works are always permeated with a strong British style, which is compared with the animation works represented by the United States and Japan, there is a little more idyllic life, the character modeling is relatively realistic, the picture color is bright, that is, the "London Family" such a flowing account of the same work, in order to inadvertently detail, poke in the tears of the people, the whole film after watching, you can also feel the author's miss for his parents, this is a warm animation that needs to be calmed down to understand.
"Realism depicts life as it really is... The best writers are realists" – Chekov
From "London Family", we see the epitome of life, even if there is no vigorous love, but you finally want to love someone, dating before marriage, watching movies to live a petty bourgeois day, after marriage to face a place of chicken feathers, but fortunately happy, not much trouble, the years will not bring rapid changes in life, that is, this day and day passed, you will find that the hairline is getting higher and higher, the hair is getting whiter and whiter...
In the end, you will find that ordinary love is great love.
Ordinary life is the luckiest.
The old days became slower Cars, horses, mail are all slow There is only enough to love one person in a lifetime
We come into the world by chance, and the chance of becoming great people is even lower, so it is doomed that most of our lives and loves will be insignificant ordinary daily life. Maybe we can't leave a mark on this history until we die, but as long as we know for ourselves that our lives are not unique, that's enough. In fact, everyone is the protagonist of the years, let us live this life, and then meet in the next life~
Original text, figure network