At the end of the year, it seems necessary to summarize the children's movies I have watched this year. It is estimated that there are 80 out of 100, and I have all scored four stars or more (I definitely chose deliberately). This is also a children's film, and the director has also adopted the popular methods of excellent children's films or modern films: life flow and documentary.
What is life flow? That is, the film looks just like daily life, expressing a period of time when ordinary characters are calm, the language of the film is very simple, does not show off skills, does not burn brain, does not play tricks in the narrative structure, and does not make a difference in form. It looks simple and simple. For example, the Iranian children’s film "Little Shoes", "Children in Heaven", Abbas's "Where is My Friend's House", and "Little Runaways", "Children's Words Are Taboo", "Walk with Me", etc. , Children’s movies seek a truth, and don’t need to be too complicated to cause ripples in the hearts of the audience.
The creative characteristics of life-stream children’s movies can include: First, the details and scene descriptions are closer to reality. For example, the scenes of this film mainly include morning streets, boys’ dormitories, classrooms, canteens, playgrounds, churches, etc., which are common to audiences. In life scenes, the director used a lot of idle pens in expressing the lives of this group of students. For example, in the dormitory, many boys played together, played games on the playground. Nye’s thing, second, the character is similar to the real character. Bonay is always bullied by others because he is different from other students’ religious beliefs, but this kind of bullying doesn’t seem too serious. It looks like I was bullied when I was in school. About the same, Bonnet’s quilt was made with cold water. Bonnet was about to eat a biscuit. Someone took it and licked it with his tongue and dipped it on it and gave it to him. When Bonnet was brushing his teeth, someone put water in his clothes and so on. There are not many times when I am bullied, which is not the focus of the author's description. Thirdly, the director’s attitude is basically not reflected. He always maintains a calm and restrained narrative method to make the whole movie as calm as life most of the time. For example, the movie will be interspersed with militia (German) searches and inspections from time to time, but Bonnet spent several times as a Jew without any danger. For example, when Kantan learned of Bonnet’s Jewish identity, he slowly developed sympathy and admiration for Bonnet. He took Bonnet to see his parents. , The two play games together, brush their teeth, play the piano, turn on the lights at night and read the little yellow book together, etc. Fourth, the film does not have majestic scenes, nor does it have a legendary and sensational grand narrative. The representative of the grand narrative is "Farewell My Concubine", which is logically linked, and this film concentrates a lot of pen and ink on the trivialities of life, singing, dictating in class, passing notes, brushing teeth, bathing, sleeping, eating, Playing the piano, playing, etc. are repeated constantly, and life itself is composed of these. Therefore, it is easier for the audience to substitute when watching the film, and there will be a sense of familiarity in many places. Fifth, the narrative of the film is generally a linear narrative mode, which is completely in line with the logic of reality.
Although the author adopts a simple film expression, the background of the Germans killing Jews in World War II in the film gives it an extraordinary depth. It is the background of World War II that makes the history of friendship between the two teenagers more serious and reflective, which is different from "Special Friendship" or "Crocodile Shoes".
"Special Friendship" tells about the relationship between the older brother and the younger Xiaozhengtai. Finally, the younger Xiaozhengtai jumped to death due to the strict church system. "Crocodile Shoes Walking the World" tells the story of AIDS Xiaozhengtai and Tsundere withdrawn The feelings between the elder brothers, and finally the AIDS Xiaozheng Tai passed away. The same as the two is that at the end of "Goodbye, Children", the Jew Bonnet was massacred in Auschwitz, leaving normal humans full of Kantan. Living gratifyingly, the difference is that throughout the narrative process, the director focused on Kantan’s exploration of Bonnet’s identity and the transformation of the relationship between the two.
Until the half of the film, at 47:26, Kantan still dismissed Bonnet, but at this time he was full of curiosity about Bonnet: Who is he? Why does he pray at night? Why does he play the piano so nicely (a little bit of the same sex)? Why doesn't he learn Greek? What is his family like? This kind of secret exploration brings a little sense of solving puzzles. Following Kantan’s exploration, we slowly approach Bonnet and understand their feelings. This is what I think is the most worthy of learning in this film, one by one. How arrogant and conceited boys are driven by curiosity to understand another person and have a huge impact on their own life is really interesting.
When the audience saw them reading erotic novels by the bedside with candles, who would have thought that they were still incompatible with enemies not long ago? However, the result of this change in the relationship between the characters is that "Contain quickly turned his head and looked at Bonnet, causing Bonnet to be caught by the militia." This is the description of the details in real life, even though the last narrative becomes Emotional climax.
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