Geum Min hides his most desperate movie under the skin of a comedy

Rachael 2022-01-10 08:01:11

Jin Min's movies always let me see the light of genius in my mediocre life. This kind of light is soft and natural, without showing off, but shockingly speechless.

An animated film...The painters worked so hard to make the picture move one by one, frame by frame. If a story can be completed with real-life special effects, why do directors and painters have to work for several years? What kind of thing they drew like a mystery that cannot be disassembled or copied?

In my opinion, "Tokyo Godfather" is a complete adult movie. The collusion and entanglement in the story are mostly hidden behind laughter and warmth. People have been extremely persistent but powerless sighs. Homosexuality, transvestites, homeless people, problem girls, abandoned babies, unemployed youths, bereaved mothers... the characters that promote the movie are not close to the word "being favored by God". Everyone relies on lying, aggressiveness, and violence to whitewash the past, alternating their identities between "poor people" and "terrible people". They searched for Christmas gifts in the trash and looked for expired food at the back door of the supermarket. Most of them are sick and sick, with regrets and fears in their hearts. An old homeless man fainted on the cold street and said that he wanted to drink a sip of wine. If he died on the tatami mat, his life’s dream would come true...

These miserable settings deliberately make the audience feel that "angels are coming", and even make the audience laugh in the face of miserable situations... The name "Qingzi" is closely related to misfortune and appears repeatedly. In the movie, at the end of the story, the baby's parents have to ask the wandering trio to give a name... Seeing this plot, I can't deny that the director is really cruel. What kind of thoughts does he have about the world in order to connect so many sufferings into a series of brilliant and brilliant stories, so that people suddenly give birth to a trace of humor at the end of despair? Finding abandoned babies, acknowledging father and daughter, enough medicine expenses, suicide saved, falling down safely... Jin Min presents all his luck in the second half of the movie. It looks like a comedy reunion Happyending, and the audience is moved in a mess, believe it For the destined fate of the sky. But director Jin Minda also unkindly hinted: 11-11111 such a strange number can win the lottery. So everything in the story is impossible. This is a comedy full of despair and coldness. Since it's a comedy, it's okay, everyone, please laugh. The happier we laugh, the happier Jin Min will be.

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  • Teresa 2022-03-19 09:01:06

    It was because of this movie that I liked Mr. Jin Min with all my heart. You can warm up a pot of wine on Christmas Eve. Such cute people and such cute coincidences are impossible in the real world. Knowing this, but trying to make all of this not only exist properly but also flow and diverge in the 2D world. Best to relive when you are frostbited.

  • Alverta 2022-04-24 07:01:17

    The animated version of the family of thieves, these illusory and real city prophecies, have been staged countless times. But this version of Jin Min is worth watching over and over again.

Tokyo Godfathers quotes

  • Hana: [haiku] My mother's white breath / as she watches me set out / on a long journey.

  • Hana: [haiku] On the year's last day / when all of a life's accounts / have been settled up.