After the release of Weathering With You, I went to see the movie with the mentality of going to the cinema to see Xin Haicheng's wallpaper. The biggest selling point of his movie is this point. There is no need to say that it is very suitable for watching in the cinema.
In terms of plot, I am more appetizing than Junming, but there is a sense of disobedience and familiarity. After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Xin Haicheng went to see the thief family last year and posted on Twitter. It was said that he felt that there was some overlap between the thief family and the new movie he made, and he emphasized that it was a completely different story. He might be afraid that people would say that he was plagiarizing. The influence of this thief family, according to his own interview, he did not say that he was influenced by Hirokazu Koeda, but said again that when he watched the thief family, he felt very similar to the movie he wanted to make, I said It's very vague. It's like Hirokazu-eda's movies. There are old and young, but is there no grandma or child in his name? There are definitely more similarities.
What's more interesting is that it was actually Hirokazu Koreeda who criticized Makoto Shinkai's work in the year when Jun Ming first came out. Of course, it was Hirokazu Koreeda who didn't have anything to do with him. It was Hirokazu Koreeda who later felt uneasy because the Japanese media's reports were too targeted and deviates from his original intention. He was afraid that Makoto Shinkai would feel uncomfortable. But Hirokazu Kore-eda did say that your name is a work that is intended to please the audience. The elements that audiences love to watch, such as the body swap of boys and girls, time travel, and saving the village, are all packed into one work. Came a huge success at the box office. Makoto Shinkai also understands this very well in his heart. His name is the most criticized in the Japanese critics. However, the name of the king is originally a commercial movie, and it is not a sin to please the audience, but this trick also It can't be used all the time, so Makoto Shinkai thought about how to transform the new work, and then he happened to be inspired by Hirokazu Koreeda, and he also paid attention to the young people at the bottom.
I’m not going to study the question of plagiarism or borrowing here. After all, there are many works on this subject. Especially in the past two years, focusing on the bottom of the society has become a hot topic in the film industry. Just a search will also say that the family of thieves, Son of the Weather, Joker, what is home, parasites are all a type of movie and so on. Makoto Shinkai's current works are very popular, and they are commercial films that are easy to use. At first glance, they can only be said to be old stalks, not plagiarism, but only the Oguri Shun who appeared in Children of the Weather. In terms of the interaction between this character and the male protagonist, the strong thief family has a strong sense of sight. After searching around on Twitter, many people said that the male protagonist of Weathering Child is very similar to the little boy in the thief family, and he lives with his brother and is afraid. The heroine, who was separated by the police, is also very different from the previous female characters in Makoto Shinkai's films. The film is full of moral and legal opposition. biggest reason.
Of course, borrowing is not copying, what he borrowed is very bright and hidden, and the finished film is a love story of Makoto Shinkai style, no one can beat him for plagiarism, he is transformed into his own , which also led to his works, indeed it was not Hirokazu Koreeda with connotation, or his set of teen movies.
Moreover, it is Hirokazu Koreeda who has been a documentary director for many years. He has a relatively deep understanding of social problems in Japan. As for Makoto Shinkai, an animation otaku who is almost behind closed doors. Therefore, his cognition on social issues is relatively shallow. It can be seen from the fact that he wants to make movies of the same type after watching The Thief Family. His cognition of social issues is still at the level of a movie lover, so he even I saw that the thief family wanted to make a movie with the same theme, and the film made is also very different from Hirokazu Koreeda.
However, for Makoto Shinkai personally, it is quite a big improvement to be able to evolve from an ordinary boy and girl love story that everyone can put in your name, to a love story that focuses on low-level teenagers like Weathering With You. Even if there are many flaws, it is a big breakthrough to dare to try and dare to transform and not stand still. Some of the negative reviews of this work are precisely because the two protagonists are relatively marginal and low-level, which makes his young audience who like to watch Jun's name without food and clothing have little resonance, and even can't understand that the protagonist thinks that he is unreasonable. . But two teenagers who have not received much care from the society at all, one is far from home to work in Tokyo with a monthly salary of 3,000 yen, and the other has no parents to work and raise a younger brother. Life is already very difficult, how can we give up Xiaoai? For the sake of great love, I am afraid that even those audiences who like moral kidnapping and have not encountered major setbacks in their lives can't do it. For Xin Haicheng, it is quite risky to abandon his original audience. Although this film is something that can be thought about, compared with the family of thieves, it is like a child's thing, but he has the courage to do such a work. Still commendable.
And because his works have always been exquisite, his animation style has many disadvantages in expressing the theme of poverty. If this is a live-action movie, maybe the protagonist can make people see poverty more directly. For example, the male protagonist goes to the female protagonist's house. The scene where the two eat potato chips and fried rice is obviously meant to show that the poor and self-reliant children make their own meals full of randomness, but Makoto Shinkai's style of painting and some of his little habits have caused the audience to watch it. I think the two of them eat very well... Compared with the family of thieves who eat together, people feel that they are having fun in poverty, and they will find that Makoto Shinkai's style of painting has become a hindrance to him.
Finally, I want to say something, that is, there is a line at the end of the film, I feel that the Japanese will be more emotional, and I always see Japanese netizens mentioning it. That is, it rains every day in Tokyo at the end, and passersby are still making appointments to see the cherry blossoms. Seeing cherry blossoms is an ordinary and important thing for Japanese people. Usually, people will check the weather forecast and choose sunny days to see the cherry blossoms. Cheng had to watch the cherry blossoms in the rain, and there was a kind of mentality of having fun in the midst of hardship. In the country of Japan, after the 311 earthquake, many of the people's mentality changes are really subtle. As a Japanese director, Makoto Shinkai created the details of watching cherry blossoms in the rain, which is also a highlight of this film. Of course, there are also I saw Japanese netizens say that if Tokyo has become rainy every day and you want to see cherry blossoms in the rain, I would have fled Tokyo long ago. In a troubled country, when discussing these seemingly magical issues, the citizens actually take it very seriously. After all, it is a Japanese movie. In the final analysis, it expresses the mentality of the Japanese. It’s enough for outsiders to watch it. Many of the resonances that they can only have at home are not within the scope of overseas audiences’ thinking.
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