Text / McChuqi
Whoever says that father's love must be interpreted from the perspective of the father, and the daughter's perspective may be more able to convey the influence of father's love on the daughter.
The Oscar best animated short film "Father and Daughter" interprets a different kind of father-daughter love, which is different from the father-daughter love told in other films, the happy time when the father and daughter are not accompanied, some are the premature lack of fatherly love in life, but the little girl's behavior interprets the father's love from another angle, and the expected love accompanies her life, until she is also old to open the heart knot.
The film gives close-ups of the wheels of the bicycle many times, and even at the end of the film, the entire screen gives a rotating wheel, which is a symbol of life, whether the loved ones who accompany you have left or not, your life is always moving forward, and the birth of the next generation is the continuation of life.
At the beginning of the short film, the little girl and the father are happily riding and playing, and suddenly the father's bicycle stops, and the camera switches from the front of their father and daughter to the side, and the switch of this shot actually converts our roles, so that we can become a bystander and better feel the story of the father and daughter.
The little girl's car overtook her father, and she turned back, this detail shows that the father's life is over, and the little girl's life is still very long, when the father stops and walks down the embankment to get on the boat, this shot is used twice, the first time is to look at the boat, and then come back to hold the little girl, kiss and hug and hold high, this is a father's love for his daughter.
However, his life was about to end after all, he turned around and once again took a boat and rowed away, but the daughter did not know that it was the end of her father's life, just like Gui Youguang wrote in the "First Concubine's Story": "On May 23, the eighth year of Zhengde, the widow died." When the children saw their families weeping, they wept with them. However, I thought that the mother's bed was also hurt! "It is precisely because the child is too young to understand the pain of losing his parents that the mother dies but thinks she is asleep."
The little girl in the short film is happy because she is still dancing on the shore, full of anticipation. She just thinks that her father has rowed away, and does not know that his father has passed away, but the music of the film reveals that this trip is the last, because the music changes from cheerful to soothing at the moment when the father puts down his daughter and leaves, setting the tone of separation, perhaps not wanting to show too much sadness about the parting.
Since her father's departure, the little girl has also left alone, but she has come to this place separated from her father day after day, year after year, to watch for her father's return, no matter whether it is windy or rainy, cold and hot, but she has never waited for her father's return.
In the film, this is a place for the little girl to stop, in fact, in reality it may be a photo of her father, she will go to her father at every stage of her life, when she grows up and plays with her friends, she will think of her father, she will think of her father when she is in love, she will also think of her father when she gets married and has children, and the thick thoughts overflow the screen.
At each stage of life, the film uses music to set off the girl's mood, and also uses the contrast of scenes to render this atmosphere of longing. Every time I came here, the music was cheerful, and the time I left was slow, like a girl who came with hope and always came disappointed.
When alone, she uses bad weather to show the girl's firm heart; when she is with friends, she stops and waits in contrast to the anxious urging of her friends; when she is in love and married, her husband and children are happy, but she is alone in looking at the distance; her own children have grown up, and she has come and gone alone, repeating the past of her childhood; she is old, she can't ride a bicycle, and she has to come and see, and the laying of these scenes tells us that a daughter misses her father.
The old lady with white hair, at this moment the daughter can no longer bear the torment of the years, she pushed the bicycle, came to the place where her father disappeared, this time she did not wait, but walked down the shallow water, all the way to find the trace of the father, in a circle of grass found the father's boat, or another symbol of the father's grave, and finally found the expected result here.
The old lady lay down, as if feeling the warmth of her father, and she fell asleep, and in her dream she saw in the distance her father open his arms to herself, and she ran toward him, and she became younger and younger. This scene turns back in time through the action of running, and finally the time is frozen in a second of youth, not that she has returned to her childhood, which shows that when the little girl grows up to understand the death of her father, from that moment on, waiting has become nostalgia.
It seemed to me that the old lady slept in the boat, perhaps not in a dream, but in the same end of her life as her father. In the Chinese tradition, we all think that when our parents are there, we know where we came from, and when our parents leave, we know where we will go, so the place where the shipwreck is more like a cemetery, the ship is the tombstone, and the meeting between father and daughter at this moment may be a reunion in another world, and it is also a dream that has come true.
The father-daughter love of this short film is not the consistent father to the daughter's meticulous care, but an expectation in the daughter's heart, a thought, the whole short film is in the form of animation without a line, the music gives us rich emotions, but also gives us a strong touch, maybe there is no father's tall image, is the open arm, or it is to give the daughter a sense of security, that is a kind of attachment from the depths of the soul, love will not end because of the end of life.
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This article was originally created by Mai Chuqi, together to comment on the film and television drama plot, taste the book life.