I watched "Jojo's Whimsical World" with my friends. After reading it, my friends commented that there are some places in the storyline "a little bit abrupt". I personally think that from the plot point of view, this movie is not a big problem, at least To be shortlisted for this year's Oscar for best film and best editing, there is not much to question the integrity of the whole story. Compared to stories, I care more about whether a good movie can convey more emotions and information. "Jojo's Whimsical World" did cause some emotional shock to me. The most intuitive feeling is that this movie looks different in the context of war.
I sorted out this different feeling myself. I think this is also the reason why this movie is defined by me as an "anti-war fairy tale". It is probably determined by several parts:
Narrative from the perspective of children. "Jojo's Fantastic World" is a witty and cheerful way to tell the story of the Nazis and Jews during World War II from the perspective of a young boy. From the perspective of children, the prejudice and discrimination in society at that time would seem particularly ironic. After all, children’s perspective is simple, and children’s views of right and wrong need to be guided by adults. Therefore, as the protagonist of the whole story, Jojo wants to serve for the fascist forces, wants to grow into a warrior and defeat the devils of the Jews. The audience in front of the screen understands history. In the real world, fascism is an evil force, and Jews are the persecuted crowd. This kind of contrast caused the audience and the protagonist to be “not on the same front” for a long period of time in the movie. We will look at the protagonist’s behavior more from the perspective of God, not a sense of substitution. Later, when Jojo realized the evil of fascism, we and the protagonist’s thinking became the same. Such senses are rare in many movies. It is also one of the reasons why I feel special.
Fictional exaggerated character. In the movie, there is another Hitler imagined by Jojo. This character played by director Taiga Viditi can be said to carry out the "absurd" feature throughout. The imaginary Hitler is a unique character in Qiao Qiao’s mind. Because he always wants to join the fascist army, Qiao Qiao, who has never seen Hitler, thinks that is his own spiritual guidance. Whenever he has some distress or entanglement, this is caused by His own fictional Hitler will come out to talk to him, of course, the result is to lead Jojo to kill the Jews and be loyal to Hitler. I think this is also a kind of visual self-struggle. Everyone has both good and evil. These two characteristics often fight in the brain. In the movie, the imagined Hitler behavior is very exaggerated, and it is different from the simple Jojo There was a strong contrast, and people couldn't help but sweat for the little protagonist after watching it. Fortunately, he finally expelled "Hitler" from his heart, and goodness defeated evil.
The tone of the story is ironic. The background of the story of "Jojo's Fantastic World" is that during the Anti-Fascist War, when "fascism" and "Hitler" are mentioned, it is not difficult for people to subjectively associate some cruel pictures and history. Such a story is the first reaction to the theme. It will also be heavy and profound. However, this movie goes against the trend, from the beginning to the end of the story, there is always humor and warmth. For example, at the beginning of the story, Joe Joe was injured by a bomb, the conversation with his mother, and the chat with his good friend York, have kept the audience invisible to the smell of war. Of course, those who have watched more movies can still realize that the more humorous the moment, the greater cruelty is often brewing. Sure enough, at the back of the story, Jojo’s mother was killed for anti-Nazi status, and the instructor who had been protecting Jojo was shot. The war broke out and life suddenly changed. We finally saw the cruel scenes in the movie. I think this huge gap between twists and turns is also the factor that makes my senses different in the movie. The core of comedy is tragedy, and this movie implements this core and expresses it in the form of comedy.
Chic visual presentation . The film was also shortlisted for this year’s Oscar’s Best Costume Award. In terms of clothing color, the mix and match of ginger yellow, peacock blue, and light grass green can always ensure visual prominence. The color has a certain symbolic meaning and is formed by social conventions. The meaning is relatively stable. The audience can use their cognition in real life to interpret the color of the clothing. The color uses the bright film "Budapest Hotel". The use of a large number of "millennial fans" makes the audience have to sigh the beauty of the picture, and the pink scene is not Rarely, it also highlights the specialness of the whole story. "Jojo's Fantastic World" also has amazing similarities. In terms of clothing, in the case of Jojo, the uniform that he did not take off every day when he first joined the Nazi Party, reflects Xiao Jojo's stubbornness to become Hitler in his heart:
The scene of living with my mother is changed into a warmer and softer coat:
Later, with the mother’s departure, the belief in the pursuit of "becoming a Nazi" collapsed, and the war changed life. Dressing more towards dark colors, dark coats and jackets made the simple and lively Joe Joe gradually bear the changes brought about by social changes. growing up.
Characters such as mothers and Jewish girls are all dressed up in the movie to show the psychological changes of the characters visually, which looks very pleasing to the eye.
I think the emotional deviation caused by "Jojo's Fantastic World" is amazing. Telling a suffering with a smile, this movie is destined to be a special anti-war fairy tale. In my memory, a combination of comedy and children’s perspective is used to express a tragedy. Such a combination is still rare, but it produces a very strange reaction. When sharp knives and guns turn into humor and warmth, although they cannot change their injuries. The nature of human beings, but at least we can glimpse the beauty behind cruelty, peace is really good, and life is good, just like the end said, "dance, not war".
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