Chapter 1183
That's right, the plot setting of "Spirited Away" itself is for children, and children are all surprised and addicted to this bizarre fantasy world, where there are magical magic, weird and interesting characters, such as small briquettes that can walk, witches who can fly like owls, or maybe the word "adventure" alone is enough for them to be excited and like.
Of course, these are for the little pot friends, there is no doubt about this, there is no doubt about the original intention of this animated movie to design the plot in this way.
But if today's animated movies want to be excellent animated movies and want to be a blockbuster, they can't just be shown to children, because now more and more adults are starting to watch animated movies.
Moreover, the parents of the little pot friends, who are also the audience of this animated movie, are, maybe some animated movies, most of the time, parents accompany their children to watch, and in the cinema, maybe parents will do their own things, not interested in movies at all, just to accompany their children.
It's a big failure for a movie, why? Because you can't conquer your audience, and even make them watch it and not even know what the movie is.
So will they take the initiative to buy tickets and take their children to watch movies? I'm afraid that most of them will be pestered by their own children, so they will think about buying tickets to accompany their children to watch them.
One is active, the other is passive, and the gap is not ordinarily large.
So, animated movies have to have something that will appeal to adults.
Why is "Kung Fu Panda" successful? Because "Kung Fu Panda" is actually a simple version of a martial arts story, but with a cute shell.
In this movie, children watch pandas who can do kung fu, while adults watch those things hidden under the surface, which gives people the feeling that they will not be so naïve.
The little friends of "Despicable Me" see the whimsical idea of stealing the moon, but what the adults see is the change in Gru's attitude towards the child, and what they see is his self-redemption and growth.
The film "Robot Wall-E" can be said to be not so friendly to young children, because it is more like a love fairy tale for adults.
And "Spirited Away", this film has great ambitions, not only to make children like it, but also to conquer adult audiences.
In fact, the audience who watched "Spirited Away" will never admit that this is a film that is only suitable for small pot friends, and they will say that it is more suitable for adults, because without a certain experience, you really can't understand the truth and philosophy contained in the film.
Animation is always indispensable, it must be educational, and movies are always indispensable for satirical and criticism of reality, otherwise it is not profound, and all of them are not left behind in this animated movie, and its operation is simply "heartbreaking"!
Isn't it surprising that people don't like to preach, especially in the age of the Internet, especially in this era when I'm the authority, who likes to preach?
But "Spirited Away" does show these things.
The plot of the movie is shallow and deep, it looks like Chihiro's parents become pigs, and Chihiro wants to save them's simple story, but it wants to express much more than that, the director has integrated his in-depth thinking about the real society into it, with a very strong realistic color, or it is simply a reality film dressed in the coat of "fairy tale and magic", worthy of the name "adult fairy tale".
For example, this bizarre town, which is like a dream, seems to be whimsical and boundless, but it is actually a portrayal of reality, and has unshakable operating rules like our real society.
Here, you have to eat the food here, or you'll evaporate, but you can't overeat without moderation, or you'll become a pig.
Here, you have to find a job to prove your existence, and those who seek comfort will become animals and be banished forever.
Here, money is still the supreme existence that everyone wants, and for money, the gods can also fight for their heads and lose their dignity.
At the same time, every character in the movie, whether it is the core protagonist or the supporting role, has an extremely strong realistic symbolic meaning.
Of course, adults' worlds and minds are certainly different from those of children.
The same plot is completely different in the eyes of children and in the eyes of adults.
For example, Chihiro's parents become piglets, and many children will be nervous about Chihiro and will be scared like Chihiro, but in the eyes of adults, they will remember that before, Chihiro's parents were lazy and lazy, and they would think that this was cause and effect.
And after that, the world of children is simple, and everything Chihiro does and experiences is new to them, so they are curious when they look at it, and they laugh innocently.
But for adults, there will be a different feeling.
Chihiro's parents became piglets, and after that, she lost the protection of her parents, and when she had to be independent and strong, wasn't it like our parents were getting old, and we were growing up to the point where we had to leave our parents' wings and leave the familiar environment?
When we independently enter the big dye vat of society, even if we are afraid, helpless, and crying in the long night with our shoulders crossed, in order to survive, in order to protect them after they grow old and vulnerable, just as our parents sheltered us when we were children, we must finally wipe away our tears and move on.
This is growth, we have to live like this, just like Chihiro must accept a job that is not easy and helpless, or in reality we have more choices from difficult and helpless are not enough to be outsiders, but this is the nature of life, the difference is that some people are domesticated by that rule to a kind of cowardice, while some people always live with a bottom line.
The faceless man can be said to be a very special, very special existence in the animated movie "Spirited Away".
In the eyes of many children, the faceless man may be very scary, but in the eyes of adults, the existence of the faceless man is very special significance.
Chihiro said: This person will become bad in the bathhouse, and in the naïve thoughts of children, this is just a very interesting setting.
But in the eyes of adults, it is different, faceless men, like innocent children, they are like a blank sheet of paper, and why do they become bad in the bathhouse?
Because the bathhouse is like society, the faceless man in the bathhouse has been dyed colorful from a blank piece of paper by the big dye vat of society.
So it went bad, because in the bathhouse, like those temptations in society?? confused, so that the white paper was dyed into other colors.
And in the end, the faceless man became better because of Chihiro, which is also a very simple example, everyone gets better or worse because of the environment, and it is related to the people they meet.