This is the performance notes of the animated movie "The Man Who Knows the Blue sky", but I don't want to be too rigid, so let's talk about my views on the plot. Since the end of "Girls in a Time of Panic", I have not experienced the orthodox Okada Kuori works for a long time. This June coincides with the release of "The Man Who Knows the Blue sky" and "I Want to Cry I Put on the Mask of a Cat" will be released one after another, and you can replenish the "Gang Ma Energy" to the fullest.
Gang Ma's works have one thing in common, the characters will always find their true selves in the choice of love, or get spiritual growth in the failure of love. But the work will not put its core ideas on the table, the audience can see it, can not see it is harmless, is clearly displayed is a variety of "your circle is really chaotic" appearance. This is also beyond reproach, the drama of the work comes from the complex character relationships and the interaction between people, and the idea of such relationship construction is often summarized as "Gang-style stomach medicine".
A lot of space in "Blue Sky" is devoted to growth and thinking about life, and the so-called "second first love" is just a gimmick to change the soup without changing the medicine. Of course, it may be to enhance the theme of "growth", Gang Mama did not deliberately complicate the relationship between the characters, the fat house has always been a tool to promote the progress of the relationship between the sister and the male protagonist, the female second did not directly participate in the war and became an indispensable foil, and the sister did not know that the sister and herself liked the "same man". This kind of "mutual ignorance" stabilizes the relationship between the characters to a certain extent, and does not make the audience "stomach pain", but it also loses the "medicine" of Gang Ma as always.
Of course, the plot conflict is not enough to make up for it with the performance, and here are some performances worth remembering.
The opening few shots switch between the main characters, using a similar action of "turning on and off" for transitions. The similarity of these actions is just right, there is no rigid feeling of deliberately pursuing a seamless transition, and it is naturally less likely to be noticed. There are also obvious performance intentions in the color difference, and it is clear that the male protagonist's life is not smooth now.
The helicopter dog barking and other shots given earlier are not given in vain, and the background sound disappears instantly after the heroine puts on the headphones, reinforcing the impression of concentration.
During the period, there are a large number of empty shots to create an atmosphere, "long-necked dragon" quite like this imitation of the perspective angle of the real shooting, there are many similar shots throughout the whole article, there is a kind of "high-grade sense" of the movie.
Looking up at the camera, mimicking the angle at which the sister looked up at the two men. The upward looking lens comes with a certain pressure, which is easy to convey the sense of tension. The background is a single-point perspective with the horizon tilted, and the tension of the scene is extremely obvious, once again emphasizing the tense atmosphere.
The four people look at the sky, representing the intersection of the relationship between the characters, and the story officially begins. This is a set of eye-catching shots, while achieving the narrative effect, it also clicked on the title of "The Man Who Knows the Blue Sky", which also echoed the end of the film.
The picture is montage, and the specific point is to put things in different time and space on the same picture, which is often used in the memory scene.
In the animation, all the shots given to the mirror should pay more attention, after all, "looking in the mirror" is a high-intensity action, and if there is no performance intention, the mirror will not be specially drawn. As for whether the person in the mirror is lying or confiding his true heart, it depends on everyone's own understanding.
This apparently unbalanced composition highlights the sister's sense of loss after saying goodbye to the male protagonist.
The mole in the eye is a certain symbolic symbol, ambition, pursuit, action, etc., and the close-up of this shot is dedicated to the mole of the elderly male protagonist, indicating that the enthusiasm hidden in the heart of the character is about to awaken.
The two things of "breaking free" and "breaking the strings" are linked together, which enhances the narrative effect. The action of "pushing the air wall" does not have any feedback, it is not easy to reflect the dynamics, and the shape of the elastic string force is changed to intuitive, so the two are linked together. Of course, the symbolism of the guitar should also be considered here, and the specific point is that prudently chooses "self-sacrifice".
Finally, the line "The sky is really blue" is a pun. "The frog at the bottom of the well has never seen the sea, but he has seen the blue sky." In fact, the sister said that the sky was blue, and the sister agreed to make tuna rice balls for the male protagonist is the same reason, which is a subtle expression of love.