At the end of each year, the Oscar shortlist always makes waves among movie fans.
This year, a total of 25 preliminary works were shortlisted for the 91st Academy Awards for Best Animation, and China won two seats with "Big World" and "Happiness Road". Of course, the most powerful in the shortlist is hollywood animation, such as "Spider-Man: Parallel World", "Isle of Dogs" and other films have landed in China's theaters, receiving rave reviews.
Secondly, there is Japan, a powerful anime country , with 6 works on the list. Except for "Spring Night, Let's Go Ahead!" Such a popular work, Xiaobian also noticed the relatively low-key unpopular masterpieces, such as this one
Leeds and the Bluebird
Produced by Kyoto Animation (Kyo Ani), Leeds and the Blue Bird is an independent theatrical film from the TV drama Blowing the Wind.
Although the characters are connected to the TV version, the theatrical version is very friendly to the general audience, and even if you have not seen the previous work, there will be no barrier to understanding.
The story of "Blowing the Wind" takes place in the wind music department of Kita-Uji High School, and is biased towards group portrait portrayal;
"Liz and the Blue Bird" digs up two female classmates with stories from it- the oboe-playing armor Tsuka (ying) and the flute-playing umbrella Yoshimi, focusing on the story of their friendship.
Kazuka has a quiet and introverted personality, although he does not talk much and is often shy, but his inner world is also very rich;
Yukimi is lively and outgoing, loves to laugh and make trouble, has a good relationship with everyone, and dominates this friendship;
Two good friends have complementary personalities, practice music together every day, go to and from school together, and have very deep feelings.
For Kasumi, Ximei is her only best friend, the bright color in her life; for Kasumi, Kasumi is a unique existence that distinguishes her from other girls, and only she understands that Kasumi is sensitive and shy, and her words are shallow and affectionate.
Leeds and the BlueBird is both the title of the song they practiced and the title of a fairy tale.
In fairy tales: There is a lonely girl Liz, who is kind and gentle, and often feeds small animals nearby with breadcrumbs, including blue birds flying over the edge of the window.
After a night of storm, she found a physically exhausted girl at her doorstep. Strangely enough, this girl had blue hair, a blue dress, and a strange demeanor.
Liz took in the girl, and the two became good friends who talked about everything. In fact, the girl is the human form of the favored blue bird. Despite the deepening of the relationship, Liz is still faced with a choice: to trap her around, or to let her leave?
Seeing this, many viewers may guess the meaning of the pointing: Kasumi is a liz who is not good at words and has a soft heart, and Ximei is a blue bird that stays temporarily and flies away sooner or later.
But in the second half of the film, a parallel shot overturns this meaning and inverts the relationship between the two.
Kasumi is actually the more talented of the two, and the teacher also looks at her differently, expecting her to be able to pass the phonology examination. Her only concern is Ximei, who wants to go to the same university as her friends.
In the face of the more talented Kasumi, Ximei has always been surrounded by emotions of inferiority and self-doubt, so the gamble should also be loud. But after the teacher listened, he only made a few perfunctory words.
Both realized that Kasumi was the blue bird with the wider sky, and Ximei was the Liz beside him.
For Ximei, it is more suitable to go to an ordinary university, even if you want to fly with the "blue bird", you have more than enough and lack of strength.
For Kasumi, Kao Yin Da is the ideal, and "Liz" also hopes that she can have a broader space for development.
The friendship between the two girls did not deteriorate, but they would realize their self-worth on different stages.
Although "Leeds and the Blue Bird" is an animation, the aesthetic texture is not inferior to any girl movie.
In fact, the style of the TV version is more cute and energetic; the characters in the movie version are closer to real life, and even the skirt has become the knee of the appropriate benefit.
The overall color is light blue, light blue sailor suit, light blue blue bird, light blue girl heart, looks very eye-catching.
Complementing the timeless and aesthetic style of painting is the girlish poetry seen in the subtleties:
The girl's panic is the sight of the hurriedly removed when looking, and it is the cramped and uneasy play with the hair;
The friendship of a young girl is a loss with "exclusivity", a superficial breeze and a sinister inner turmoil;
The jealousy of a young girl is a complex emotion mixed with a little hostility and inferiority, and resentment because of love.
All kinds of subtle emotions are constantly fermenting in the relationship of the previous hundred times, and people can't help but sigh a sentence "Girlish feelings are always poetry".
Equally poetic is the "gaze" perspective in the film, not the profanity of the "male gaze", but the "female gaze" of the spring wind and rain.
Following the gaze, we saw the delicate calves of the girls, the flying skirts, the white necks, the bright lights of the eyes... Each shot is illustrating the beauty of a girl, the beauty of unpretentious youth.
In recent years, the story of the "double heroine" has always been so nuanced and moving.
Far away is "July and Ansheng", accompanied by the pain of growing up, is the life of two girls who love and kill each other;
Recently, "My Genius Girlfriend", competing and licking each other, is a female epic that has lasted for more than half a century.
Coincidentally, these two works, as in "Who is the Blue Bird?" Who is Leeds" torture, there is also a reversal of identity.
Perhaps, women's friendships contain a little hostility and a lot of love. After a long time together, the two people will become more and more similar and gradually become mirror images of each other.
They seem to be telling themselves with their whole lives: I love you, I am jealous of you, and only you are there.