Today's bring is "In this corner of the world", students who have not seen it can go to Baidu's network disk resources to see.
The dispute over this film on Douban is not over, some people say that it is the militarist ideological restoration of the left-wing ideological trend, and some people stand in the director's point of view to say that Japan has actually experienced some suffering, and there are some analytical works of art sent by neutralization without talking about politics, of course, the Douban score has also been scored as 7.6 points by some radical people, and it can only be said that the complexity of the personnel is relatively high, and the understanding of the same work has different reviews and polarizations, and the douban scolding war is good to see, I'm just going to write down my own afterthought.
In This Corner of the World is an animated film directed by Nao Katabuchi and voiced by Reina Noh and others, released in Japan on November 12, 2016. Adapted from Kono's manga of the same name, the film is set in Hiroshima at the end of World War II, telling the story of the heroine Kosuzu who married her in-laws living in the naval port of Kureshi, and experienced several air raids to survive and actively face life.
In order to give a general introduction to people who have not seen this work, so as not to completely lose their minds, so part of the encyclopedia content is excerpted here. In my opinion, this is a work related to "Millennium Actress", and at an event in 798 last year, I met Masao Maruyama himself. The little old man hunched his back and talked about Imatoshi, his studio and his creative life.
On the left is Masao Maruyama
It is said that at that time, Maruyama officially believed that he would complete Imatoshi's posthumous work "Dream Factory", but there was no follow-up, alas.
Yes, for In This Corner of the World, her two key characters are Maruyama and Maki.
In January 2013, Maki, who has collaborated with Maruyama in imatoshi's works such as Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfather, receives an invitation from Maruyama to invite him to dinner. Even if Makita knew that Maruyama's invitation was not for anything else, he must have talked about "In this corner of the world". The animation industry is a small world, and Maruyama has been running around with the planning book for so many years, and it has long been passed into The Ears of Maki. Invited, Maki watched the DVD of "Shinko and Millennium Magic" for the first time. He was so taken aback by the work that he even shed tears. Maki had the idea of meeting with Inspector Katabuchi and felt that he had to take over the project - "If you don't take this, what kind of producer will you call?" Introducing writers to the world is the mission of producers. ”
Then the production of this work went through several twists and turns, and there was no way to make a film without funds. Unlike Makoto Shinkai's successful commercial films, this work can be said to be a work that is inherently without a big hit. She does not have any successful commercial film nature, such as the action scenes of the Conan theatrical version, such as the high emotions and cleverly inserted laughs of Makoto Shinkai's works, nor does it have the topicality of the eva theatrical version, nor does it have the emotional works like Dragon Ball and Robot Cat.
Yes, as a theatrical film, there is almost no possibility of qualifying. From the day of birth, this film is destined to be a niche, literary, and non-theatrical theatrical version with polarized word of mouth.
But this does not prevent her from becoming a great work, a great anti-war animated film in terms of works alone. If we can look at it from a more objective perspective, suppose that we are 4 centuries later, as we do today's values, looking at the actions of Genghis Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, looking at it fairly and objectively without the slightest position and emotion.
We need to remember history, but we should look at the future, and we should still look at the works with colorless glasses and a neutral perspective.
This work was highly recommended to me by 213 (another little girl who recently learned to be a girl), and it was also seen at 213 haha.
The mood of the entire work can be summed up in this sentence:
Unspeakable sadness, feeling that unknown beautiful things are passing, but it cannot be recovered.
Speaking of music, the musical style is a bit like an island song, which in my opinion is a song style of island style that combines [sadness] emotion and oratorio. Complements the overall style of the animation work. The last time I went to Japan was Okinawa, and the mood of leisure, beauty, and sadness that pervaded the island slipped out of the form of a cappella.
Kotringo, a singer-songwriter who performed music and theme songs for In This Corner of the World, has published many high-quality musical works since he was discovered by the famous musician Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2006. In terms of animation, she has composed the soundtrack for "Lucky Belly Graffiti", sung interludes in "The Heart Wants to Shout Out", and formed the orchestra "toi toy toi" with three female musicians including Ito Masumi, and was active in animations such as "The Dragon Maid of the Kobayashi Family" and "Alice and The Hidden Six".
The whole work revolves around a young girl in Hiroshima who is married to an ordinary family in Kure City.
The initial sadness is the girl's inability to disobey her fate. Women of that era could not even actively choose the people they liked into pairs. Immediately after arriving at the new home, it is the housework of a nanny-like woman.
"Mom, don't do it, your daughter-in-law will enter the door soon."
"Okay, she's here, and I'm a lot more relaxed."
From the girl's point of view, this seems to be taken for granted, and she obeys her own fate without the slightest intention of disobeying. But when I see this, I have a little heart palpitation.
Then war came, and war changed human nature, just as it was said in the three-body problem, when Natural Selection chose to defect from Earth, a new morality was born in the starship civilization.
Remember the state of the girl before the war: feeling happy, a little confused but also meekly accepting fate.
The girl has her own hobbies and likes to draw all kinds of worlds with her right hand, and although she is here, her brush has taken her body to many places in the world.
What about after the war? What happened?
Ordinary people tend to be numb to war and have no sense of reality unless the guns of warships appear.
The girl has also experienced such a period, the girl's brush has depicted the appearance of imaginary warships, and the war seems to be far away, which lacks a sense of reality.
What impressed me, however, was that the war changed the niece of the maiden.
The girl's niece first talked about warships: "What warships are moored there, and what warships are moored here." ”
At a young age, the first thing to grasp is the knowledge of weapons of war. It is the destruction and depletion of man, a way of depriving him of what he deserves to be a child.
After that, the planes began to greet each other with frequent bombing.
In times of war, the lights could not be turned on at night.
In the war era, there was a shortage of food, and only a large amount of water soaked rice could be eaten, which was difficult to eat.
In the war era, there was no salt, no sugar, and there was a shortage of supplies, and girls of all ages could only wear ugly wide-legged pants that were convenient for hiding in air raid shelters.
In times of war, if you don't respond to air defense sirens in time, you can lose your life.
In times of war, all men, even liberal arts students in college, had to be trained to go to the front to become soldiers, destroying families one by one.
When Tetsu suzuhara joined the navy, he became a crew member of the cruiser Aoba, and once came to hojo's house to visit Suzu, which complicated Suzu and Shusaku's feelings.
"Have all your classmates gone to war?"
This work completely synchronizes the viewer's time and space into the war years, and for the first time knows how women as ordinary people live in the war years.
Men during the war years may have seen another perspective, such as conscription and military beliefs. But this work is cut from the perspective of ordinary family women, and it is precisely as a weak person to look at war, calm, numb, habitual war.
War is not a concert, it is not a typhoon that comes and goes, he is a demon who does not know when it will end. If at first the protagonists still had a little novelty about the war, later, their classmates became the object of conscription (author: fortunately, they were not boys), and when they heard that some of the neighbors had died on the front line, they felt that the horror and proximity of the war were within reach.
Yes, what changed was the fate of all the people in the countries involved.
Just as the weak heroine cannot choose her own belonging, she cannot influence the direction of the war, and all she can do is live hard.
After accidentally getting rid of the sugar, I went to the black market to buy sugar. In the absence of rice to eat, learning new ways to make rice more saturated with water is also, the heroine is a person who tries her best to live, she has lost a lot in the face of war, lost her right hand, her niece died in front of her own eyes, her mother and father died in the aftermath of the atomic bomb, and her husband also gathered less and more.
But she didn't cry, she kept trying to laugh. Her soul began to be twisted by the war, and the more she lost, the more resentful and obsessive she became about the war, hoping to prove that everything she had lost was meaningful.
When she lost her niece, she was blown off a hand. After the hand is lost, it is impossible to draw, and the people around me are still talking.
"It's great."
"What the hell is going on?" Where should I lose?
I didn't encounter good things at all, I didn't have enough to eat, I didn't have enough to wear, I couldn't cry all the time, and I still had to continue after crying. And the cart's big mother, who lost her son but did not recognize her son, said in unison:
"You can't cry all the time, after all, you will waste salt."
On August 15, 1945, the defeat of the Japanese Emperor was broadcast. The reaction of the five women after sitting and listening has become the main point of contention of Douban netizens.
"Didn't you say you were going to fight to the last man?" I still have one hand, I still have legs, I can still fight, how can it be over? ”
Then the girl ran out to cry, and on the way out, she also saw an aunt crying and weeping in no one's place, and she must have cried for the sake of her dead husband or son.
From her point of view, if it ends abruptly, then her lost relatives will be meaningless. In the frenzy of government brainwashing, they bind the meaning of their lives to the ambitions and aggression of the state apparatus, a distortion of humanity brought about by fanatical propaganda that is almost religious.
"Meaningful, right? What I lost. The girl thought to herself.
"How nice it would have been if I had been that innocent girl, I hadn't lost my right hand by then." The girl thought to herself.
Yes, there is too much in the girl's destiny. War means an eye for an eye for a tooth for a tooth, I have lost my right hand, then I have also let my enemies lose their right hand, I have lost my relatives, then I also let you taste the loss of relatives.
War is such a zero-sum game, and I think it is the most calm and sober for the audience to look at this issue from the perspective.
On August 14, the pages of newspapers condemning the inhumanity of the atomic bombing were immediately replaced by an armistice on August 15. Politics and war came to an abrupt end.
But the people's lost relatives and lives cannot come back.
Eating the leftovers of the occupying forces, there was no rice before the armistice, and there was still no rice after the armistice.
The girl's sister (or sister) recounted the tragic situation on the day of the atomic bombing, the mother died on the spot, the father died after 2 months due to excessive radiation, and the sister herself contracted radiation disease, and her life was about to wither.
Although the war has stopped, the wounds continue.
Well, let's go back to the original discussion.
What kind of state is the girl now, a crazy, vengeful, a housewife who has lost a lot and continues to want to fight back against the war.
What makes a girl such a person? It was the times and the war that shaped it together, and there was no winner in the war, and the government's brainwashing propaganda deprived her of the education and independent thinking opportunities that she should have enjoyed at her age, but it made her lose her loved ones, her right hand, her home, and her life experience.
Here comes sorrow, where suspicion and revenge wipe out humanity, where good things pass, and where she is no longer the simple girl, even she herself.
What was left to her heart was not only the empty sleeve of her right hand, but also the unknown blank space in her heart.
The end of the film is a hopeful ending, in this corner of the world, the girl's husband lives with her, adopts a child to live together, and the child is always the future and hope.
Hopefully, she didn't experience these and bring more seeds of peace to the future.