Regarding Hayao Miyazaki's " What kind of life do you want to live ", which broke 100 million at the box office on the first day of Qingming Festival and exceeded 200 million the next day, my biggest question is that there are really so many domestic audiences who can understand it. This obscure and willful movie set in the Second World War?
I guess that most of the audiences who went to the cinema during this short holiday to watch the old man’s retired works deeply love Miyazaki Hayao’s past animation works:
It may be the anti-war sentiment in "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" and " Princess Mononoke "; it may be the " The innocent friendship in " Castle in the Sky " and "Ponyo on the Cliff"; more likely, it is the awe-filled mysterious strange land in " Spirited Away ".
These familiar Hayao Miyazaki works have their own clear themes and complete stories, and the intention of conveying the core of the works is very obvious.
However, Hayao Miyazaki's retirement work "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" is not available. This animated film was only started when Miyazaki was 76 years old and took him 7 years. During this period, his best friend Ko Byung-hun passed away and the animation Color designer Michio Yasuda passed away, and Yasuo Otsuka, who strongly supported Ghibli, passed away.
This is a work in which Hayao Miyazaki has been experiencing parting and retirement throughout the whole process. Many people say that the temperament of the movie "What kind of life do you want to live" is completely different from the past. The movie does not have the sunshine, cheerfulness and positivity in Hayao Miyazaki's previous works. The spirit is the Waterloo in his works.
But in fact, Hayao Miyazaki did not expect the audience to understand this animated film. This point has not been announced since the production of "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live", and Japanese local audiences did not even wait until the animated film was released. You can tell when you know that Hayao Miyazaki has released a new work:
Hayao Miyazaki made "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" without any intention. He did not promote the movie, and he did not accept the Oscar when he won it. His attitude was almost "love" What the hell, that’s what I’m doing!”
So in essence, "Spirited Away", " My Neighbor Totoro " and "Princess Mononoke" are what Hayao Miyazaki wants to say to the world, and "What kind of life do you want to live" "Life" is what he wants to say to himself!
For those viewers who have watched animated movies and thought in their heads: "What on earth did I watch?", I want to say that you don't need to pay too much attention. This kind of movie tends to be "stream of consciousness", and it is normal to not understand it. .
Even if many so-called film critics interpret it, most of them are personal feelings and are not equivalent to Hayao Miyazaki's work thinking. You can selectively believe that there is really no need to get entangled in deep-core things. We can put solid things into Just look good at the superficial story.
I disagree with those who say that "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live" has no story structure.
The plot of this animated movie is relatively loose. My personal guess is that it follows Hayao Miyazaki's personal thinking. The background is set during World War II. The main character's mother was burned to death in an air raid. The complicated war background made it so that before Masato could take a breath, his father married his mother's sister Natsuko.
Regarding this paragraph, I have seen many people interpret it. Most of them have adopted the thinking of modern people and tried their best to dig up the emotional relationship between the real father, mother and aunt. This is completely unnecessary. In that war background, in fact, this is The situation is very common in Japan, and there is no need for conspiracy theories.
And it can also be seen from the subsequent plot that this is not a story about a love triangle between parents. It is more about the emotional transformation between Zhenren, his mother and stepmother Natsuko.
At the beginning of the story, the real person lived in a period of extreme insecurity. His mother died because his father married his aunt and lived in the mansion owned by his mother and his aunt Natsuko.
Here I saw a group of servant grandmothers who were similar to Yubaba. People who have watched "Spirited Away" should have a deep understanding of the strange feeling of familiarity and strangeness.
Although the aunt and the servant grandma loved Zhenren in this mansion, the strange place and the unyielding classmates still made Zhenren breathless, so he even smashed his head in order to avoid going to school.
But there is obviously "something" that makes him uneasy at home, and that is the heron that appears all the time and even tries to communicate with him.
Following Heron's line, Zhenmao not only found the book his mother left for him, but also discovered the tower from another world built by his uncle.
The story of the different world begins when stepmother Natsuko disappears and the real person decides to enter the tower to save her stepmother. The subsequent content will not be detailed in order to avoid spoilers.
What I can say is that there are many characters from Hayao Miyazaki's past works appearing in it. Through this animated film, you can review Hayao Miyazaki's past animation works.
In this story, Miyazaki Hayao no longer hides the malice of the world. The protagonist Zhenmao is also a melancholy and timid boy. I like the ending of returning to reality very much. After Zhenmao returns to reality after experiencing so many fantasy worlds, the old man sees He was still banging long and hard.
heralds the end of the dream utopia, which is consistent with Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts in recent years, because he had made it clear very early on that his Studio Ghibli would be disbanded, and he also clearly told others not to imitate them.
Hayao Miyazaki knows very well that this is his life, and that others cannot copy and absolutely resonate with it, so he has no fluctuations in this obviously unflattering "What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live", regardless of good or bad reviews. Truly let yourself go.
