Reaching the beginning of life as white as snow

Dawn 2022-01-22 08:02:40

Watch over and over again at night, the personal animated short film "Father and Daughter" by director Michael Dudok de Wit (Michael Dudok de Wit).



Under the bright clouds, father and daughter are riding their bicycles opposite each other, driving the wind from the high horizon. Cross the shadow of the lonely tree on the roadside, the slope of the high ground, and come to the river. Father stopped his bicycle and leaned against the lush, straight tree on the high bank. When he was by the river, he hesitated, rushed to the high bank with excitement, hugged his daughter; then, put down his daughter, boarded the wooden boat, and disappeared at the end of the long river of water and sky.



A lonely white, a sad point passed away. All emotions are condensed and blurred at that point.



Leaving, as if to symbolize the father's benevolent determination. Only by giving her daughter an experience of giving up can she truly understand the preciousness and the full meaning of growing up. Such a great father, he used sacrifice and blood to change the path of life, only hoping for his daughter's final realization.



Separation is like moving lies and metaphors. It reminds a kind of beloved silence with a secluded mute.



The daughter stood on the high bank, calling the father's name in the distance, and ran on the bank sadly. A white bird circled the bushes and flew high into the sky. From then on, the daughter began a long and persistent wait. Only the focus on her father remained in her distant eyes.



Warm and majestic sunrises, summer winds, sudden rains, group trips off-road on Sundays, cuddling bicycle lovers, dark moonlit nights, couples with children, snow-covered bare trees and fields, until the river dries up, Become a barren mudflat.



The aging daughter is pushing a bicycle, and the turning wheels can no longer carry the longings she has accumulated for a lifetime. She was rickety and couldn't support the worn-out bicycle. Finally, she crossed the white gravel riverbed and lay in the wooden boat that had carried her father, like lying in a warm old dream. Toward your direction, flying, from old age to children. On this journey of chasing, where you stare at, I will always be a wayward child.



The beautiful ending, we hugged tightly.



The father is a kind of arrival of gratitude for the daughter. After death, I completed my approach to you. Waiting and death are not terrible, as long as there is love in reincarnation, no matter what way it comes from, what position and what kind of persistence. Only love can surpass the huge and complex silence. In the face of the tenacity and comfort of love, the vicissitudes of time have become so humble. The daughter's imagination of the father turned into the best trace of life.



Tell complex stories in a concise way. But this story is not rough and cramped. It is like a green olive with a pit, with a small pointy point and a mouthful of green sweet and sour, with endless aftertaste.



The gloomy and empty background is the vast flat land that has been presented from the beginning of the film. Simple, clean to infinite. He deliberately opened his vision far away, blurring the exaggerated and subtle expressions of the characters' faces. Through the abundant and lively body language, coupled with the quiet changes of the natural environment and seasons, he perfectly and accurately levelled a deep hope. However, this emotion is well grasped, sad but not sad, simple but concise. The melodious music runs through, just like a diffuse fragrance. The freehand brushwork and quiet philosophy of the East are clearly embedded in the film, making the entire animation exudes a wise, light-hearted spirit and an outstanding and detached temperament. The large amount of blank space in Chinese paintings has also been used in the frame of the film like a genius. The space of emptiness and quiet transcends, and the existence and the non-existence reflect harmoniously. The vacant plain white, instead, gives the film a full, full and heavy soul.



Michael Dudok de Wit (Michael Dudok de Wit) once said: "Father and daughter is film about longing, the kind of which quietly, yet totally, affects our lives. "



Perhaps, hope is not only a laborious desire, but also eternity. The end of life-an exit grafted between the circulation of birth, old age, sickness and death, reaching the beginning of life as white as snow.



"You crossed the river of death and left. After many years, I experienced growth and death, and finally the river dried up. I came to the other side and found that you have been waiting for me." The



classics do not lie in the eternal life, just eight minutes is enough to explain the whole life. .

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  • Helga 2022-03-16 09:01:07

    Always waiting, always changing, even the river has dried up, but where is the end? The ringing of the bicycle and the rolling wheels, the memories of childhood go away with the sound of the piano, until the dying vision, ending a long life of watch.

  • Jerald 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    Like the ink painting style father knew that his life was about to end, he wanted to leave a hope for his daughter at the end, so he told his daughter: My child, my father is going to travel far, waiting for me to come back! So the daughter went to the beach day after day to wait for her father's return! The wheel of a bicycle is like the cycle of life, ushering in one cycle of life after another! The last meeting between father and daughter in heaven, this is just another cycle of life! ~