French up-and-coming director and famous animation master Sylvia Jomai, in 2003 directed a satirical comic comedy film, which makes great use of computer graphics and 3D modeling technology plus unlimited imagination, with watercolor dark tones as the background painting style, with a cultural style of back music, coupled with exaggeration with ugliness, ugly but contains a small cute character image, simple and unusual storyline, fully in the black humor comedy "Crazy Dating Mirador", Present the characteristics of France in front of the audience;
The film was shortlisted for the 76th Academy Awards – Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Song, the 59th British Academy film and television arts awards, and was better than 91% of animation films and more than 97% of comedies on Douban, receiving a high score of 8.7;
The director does not use sensational narrative techniques, and the storyline of the film is relatively simple, revolving around the daily life of a pair of grandchildren:
This is a pair of grandchildren who live side by side in a small French village – grandmother Sosa and grandson Chabin; In the relationship with little Chabin, Susha feels that the growing little Chabin seems to be more and more autistic and lonely, and the absence of his parents adds to this loneliness; Susa tries to fill this loneliness, and strives to explore Chabin's inner desire and interest, and susa, who is good at observation, finally helps Chabin find interest, and transforms this interest into his life goal - to become a professional cyclist; Growing up, Chabin was kidnapped by the mafia to Mirador during a "Tour de France" and became a tool for them to make money; the mother-in-law found the clues of Chabin's disappearance through the puppy Bruno Therefore, a man and a dog embarked on the journey to find Chabin, and finally with the help of the three sisters of "Mirador", they launched a wonderful game of wits and courage with the mafia, and finally won the victory, rescued Chabin, and embarked on the way home.
Some people see warm family affection in the film; some people feel endless loneliness; some people are immersed in retro nostalgic painting styles; and some people are intoxicated by beautiful but sad music;
This article interprets the theme of the film and the realistic philosophy behind it through the emotional dimension, color dimension and cultural imagery.
01. Grandmother's love: The grandmother's love is like an umbrella, caring for Chabin's spring, summer, autumn and winter, and achieving each other's growth
In the film, about Chabin's parents, there is only one photo posted in Chabin's room riding a bicycle, and Chabin, who has lost both parents, suffers from autism, is silent, and has been accompanying him with only a small doll;
Chabin, who should have been innocent and lively and carefree, should have lived in an environment loved by his parents and doted on by his grandmother, in the face of reality, only the lonely back of an old and a small one was left;
And when the film presents this picture of "lost independence" and "lost loneliness", people can't help but be sad;
However, the painting style turned, the elderly grandmother Susa, did not be because of the cruelty of reality and collapsed, the love for her grandson, let her become more powerful and wise, in order to make Chabin can grow better and healthily, has been trying to establish a good communication with Chabin, young Chabin is still silent;
Chabin's loneliness, Susa saw; Chabin's loneliness, Susa felt;
She sent Chabin a puppy, Bruno, to accompany him; but soon after, she found that Robin was still back to her original state, and at the same time, while reading the newspaper, she found that there was a small piece of the newspaper that had been cut off, and while tidying up the room, she accidentally found a notebook full of pictures of bicycles cut from the newspaper, as well as Chabin's notes on these pictures, and this notebook allowed Susa to discover chabin's interest - the bicycle;
Susa gave a small red bicycle to Chabin, and when Chabin saw the car, his glowing eyes once again confirmed Chabin's preferences, and at this time he really clapped his hands and jumped like a normal child, happily riding on the small bicycle in the yard, spinning and jumping;
Identifying Chabin's interests, Susa both respected and loved this little interest during his formative years, and encouraged and accompanied Chabin on the path of a cyclist with all her love;
In the emotional world, love is respect, guidance and growth together, and when Chabin became a cyclist, the elderly Susa became a coach who became young for love;
Seeing this, I understand that growth has nothing to do with age, and it is not limited by age;
02, music edge: because of music and acquaintance to help each other, in a foreign country is the most beautiful other emotional encounter
Susa and the puppy Bruno in order to rescue the kidnapped Chabin, rented a motorboat across the ocean to Mirador, at this time they have no money to stay in the hotel, let alone money to solve the dinner of the day, optimistic Susa can only be in the corner of the port, bored with an abandoned bicycle wheel playing, the city was once very popular Beautiful Three Sisters song, and thus attracted the three sisters, it is in this simple music, they met together, and it is because of their help, Chabin was finally rescued.
Pingshui meeting is not only a fate, but also a share of acquaintance, helping others when they are in distress, is the beginning of loving the world!
In the background tone of the film "Crazy Dating Beauty", the gradient and switching between black and white tones and color tones, transmission and coordination, reflect the relationship between different time and space or places, and at the same time better show the director's expression intention in front of the film camera, so that the audience can better feel the romantic city of France's unique romantic and warm warmth, and inadvertently reveal a trace of melancholy and sentimental nostalgia.
Black & White:
In "Crazy Dating Beautiful People", the director specially uses nostalgic film scratches and the unique snowflake dots of ancient black-and-white television to highlight the background of the 1920s and 1930s, starting with a performance of the three beautiful sisters with the characteristics of the past era, so as to push the daily viewing of the film's protagonists and grandchildren to the audience, and the background of one old and one small renders the worries and loneliness of the grandparents lightly.
For the puppy Bruno, it is also another important role in the film, in his dreams, in black and white tones to express his scenes, reflecting Bruno's inner vigilance and dissatisfaction with the train;
Color tones:
In "Crazy Dating Mirador", there is almost no character dialogue, the director mainly promotes the development of the storyline through the changes of character actions, emotions and scenes, and the change and control of color plays a crucial role in the delicate expression of character emotions, it can be said that color is a major feature of the film.
The simple and elegant natural scenery of the small town, the changes in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the deformation of the huts pushed and shoved by the elevated rails all reflect the growth trajectory of the protagonist and the development of the machine industry.
In the close-up shot, Grandmother Susa thinks that Chabin is interested in the piano, and when she tries to teach him to play the piano, the tone of the picture warms up with the hope that susa has in her heart, and also adds some reddish-brown colors to make the tone of the whole picture appear orange warm.
However, when Chabin shakes his head like a rattle to refuse his grandmother's kindness, Susa's expression instantly fades, and the director uses the push shot to show Susa's back, as well as the specific shot when Susa secretly observes Chabin, with a dark purple tone to show Susa's disappointment;
Through the switching between cold and warm, the subtle changes in tone reflect the psychological changes and compassion for Susa's continued exploration of her grandson's interests;
When Susa discovered Chabin's true interest, a small bicycle, Chabin's cheers and excitement, bright yellow colors illuminated the corners of the courtyard, and illuminated the hearts of the grandparents.
The change of color tone to reflect the ups and downs of the subjective emotional changes of the film characters, the emotional mood of the whole film is mostly by the tone change of the subjective factors produced by the characters at the moment, to highlight the flow of emotions, through the difference in color to convey the atmosphere appropriately - from cold to warm also expresses the pulse warmth and warm love between the characters, and the expression of love in the film is also more tactful and secret.
The cultural symbols in the film not only use grotesque and exaggerated expressions, but also give them a symbolic meaning
bicycle:
From the red bicycle to the self-driving car of a professional racing driver, it reflects the trajectory of Chabin's growth; on the other hand, it also reflects that under the influence of the "teacher" of interest, career can also become interest, and behind the introverted and autistic Chabin can transform his interest into a profession, it is the deep love and dedication of grandmother Sousa;
whistle:
The appearance of the whistle in the film is Susa's incarnation as Chabin's "coach", and the whistle sound represents Susha's encouragement and support for Chabin's love again and again, and the sincere family affection is delicately revealed like a dragonfly, which is a warm encouragement and a gentle healing;
"Crazy Dating Mirador" expresses the related mode of getting along between the elderly grandmother and the young grandson from the level of "lost independence" and "lost loneliness", and at the same time leads to the problem of children's cultivation and education, from this point of view, the film not only arouses the audience's heartache, sympathy and resonance;
However, the director did not let this sad emotion continue to continue, but instead gave full play to the diligence and wisdom of this old country lady, respected and guided the interest of his grandson, although he was distressed by his grandson's unimpeded and hard training, he fought side by side with him, and personally encouraged him to bravely pursue his dreams;
At this point, I think of Dong Wenjie in "Little Parting" that she blindly tried to get her daughter Duoduo to be able to enter the key high school, and later went to a prestigious university to get a high-paying job, and suppressed Duoduo's writing hobby, which is a common phenomenon of modern parents.
In the film, the old lady uses her life experience and wisdom to draw a different heart-warming tone on the way to the cruel life to illuminate and heal an unknown emotion of the grandparents and grandchildren.
Love is not only a voice, but also an act and pay for physical exertion!
Rousseau said:
"The problem is not to teach him all kinds of learning, but to cultivate his interest in learning, and to teach him the method of studying when this interest is fully grown."
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Author: Sherraby, headline Qingyun winner, when a columnist;
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