Last year, Stephen Chow's "Mermaid" told the world what we did after the mermaid was discovered, which led to a big discussion about environmental protection and human nature.
This year, Japan also produced an animated film with a similar theme, "Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn", which was shortlisted for the Shanghai Film Festival and won the Best Feature Award at the Annecy Film Festival in France.
Douban opened a high score of 8.0, and the little sister wanted to see it even more after seeing that the director was Masaaki Yuasa. Because his childhood favorites "Crayon Shin" and "Cherry Balls" are his masterpieces.
Sure enough, in "The Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn", in addition to the music that makes the little killer sister dance, the beautiful scenery like a fairy tale fairy, Masaaki Yuasa also contributed the most "ugly" cartoon image of this year - the little mermaid "dew".
In the movie, Lu is a mermaid who is afraid of the sun and can only go out at night. Attracted by music, he came ashore and became friends with the young "hai" who loved music in the town, and the rich three generations of girls "wandering".
Although he is still an old terrier who falls in love with mermaids as a teenager, Masaaki Yuasa's open brain hole gives the mermaid a new setting: Lu hears the music and the fish's tail will become legs, and then dance.
What's more, the mermaid actually combines the function of a vampire! If you bite by her, you will also turn into a mermaid and gain eternal life. Her kind also saved many people who fell into the water.
And Lu sees stray dogs in cages and bites them. So the dog became a free "fish dog". Such a silly white and sweet Mary Sue setting actually made the whole person of the killing sister pink, and the appearance of the fish dog was even more cute to my girlish heart.
Behind the cute plot, there is a cruel human nature. Lu's purpose in coming to town is simple, to be friends with everyone. But because they can't face the sun and the townspeople don't understand why mermaids bite people, they spread word of mouth as a vampire-like evil being.
As a result, Lu will be destroyed if she is discovered, and the grandfather of the walking wants to use the dancing mermaid to make money. Although Hae wants to stop Lu from performing, Lu, who wants to be friends with humans, dances.
Lu is the most afraid of light, in order to make the audience happy, she also keeps smiling in the face of flashes. But when people found out that Lu was a mermaid, they still forcibly arrested her and punished her with a strong light.
When the sea and the swimming walk can not do anything about the danger of dew, the mermaid father who heard the daughter's cry came to the rescue, and looked at the father who was roasted into flames in the sun, and the little killer sister instantly burst into tears.
An old woman who lost her husband when she was young mistakenly thought that the mermaid in the sea had killed her husband, so she was determined to be an enemy of the mermaid for the rest of her life, and even encountered a lover who turned into a human fish in the flood and came to rescue her. It turned out that her lover had drowned, and the mermaid played the "bite and bite" magic to turn it into a mermaid to save it.
When the dog also rescued the owner who had abandoned him, he could not help but make the little killer sigh: for animals, there is no word "forgiveness", because they do not remember hate, only emotionally complex humans will have a sense of guilt, love and hate, there will be forgiveness and revenge.
And the simple dog in the film, no matter what the owner has done, still chooses to "understand", so that a smiley wave, instead of using "forgiveness" to describe, it is better to use "do not disturb", thank you for your stay, goodbye is also their own good, take care of each other.
In "The Song of the Dawn", the "successful people" who returned to the town from Tokyo, like the developers in "The Mermaid", try to encroach on mermaid island for profit. Fortunately, it did not happen, and in the great rescue of the mermaid, man and nature were reconciled.
Unlike Stephen Chow's "Mermaid", which is as straightforward as zhou Xingchi's "Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn", which takes a fresh route, wraps the criticism of human greed in childlike fun, and plays the clichéd theme full of flowers.
After reading it, the little killer sister completely surrendered to Masaaki Yuasa. In addition to the beautiful sound of the road to Jane, there is also his fairy tale world: the loved ones have not passed away, but have become mermaids, continue to guard our world. I want to see 100 such healing films!