The original manga should be a classic epic. This adaptation made by Masaaki Yuasa for Netfix takes into account the commercial nature of global promotion. The fables and propositions are relatively large, but there is a little regret in the degree of completion, as the main theme of the story. , is not the director's strength, the characterization is a little rigid, for example, the emotional motives are all flashbacks and nothing else. But Yuasa has the ability to use his extreme visual imagination to bring us an emotional impact beyond ordinary, and this kind of experience requires us to truly immerse in the inner world of the characters, the kind of fight between good and evil in human nature , the emotional collision of big openings and closings, these passionate fragments are combined as the advantages of the film, which can make up for the lack of the storyline.
The theme of this film is to reflect on what is a "human" and what is a "demon". The destiny of human beings is reflected in the world, whether it is the transmission of love or the transmission of hatred. At the end, the world returns to universal reincarnation. the ultimate fate.
What I personally prefer is a demon who always believes that he can save mankind. The aura of personal heroism is completely dimmed with the heart of mankind being swallowed by darkness, while the victorious Satan sheds a sad tear. The good people and good news I was looking forward to did not appear, nor did the fusion of the beautiful tree and the moving savior that I was looking forward to, but what appeared in front of me was a group dance in the fire of dismembered "devils". This kind of anti-heroic narrative treatment will be more thought provoking.
The adult-oriented style of the movie itself, I was not used to it at first, and always felt that commercial gimmicks outweighed the creative needs, but I heard the "Villain Film Review" once said: "Animation does not have to be childish or cured, but It is to break through the visual presentation boundary that live-action films cannot transcend in the short term, and few directors have been able to do so since the death of Toshi Kon, but Yuasa can.”
Yuasa's films open up the way, asking the viewer to take some radical or romantic scrutiny. His freedom is the state of non-realistic creation, roaming in his own beautiful imagination space, and flying high to break through all external constraints.
He can have such an imagination and style of painting, in addition to talent, there may be some subconscious creative methods. Just like poetry and calligraphy, the magic brush appears in the flowing water, which is not comparable to the preset "tidy". And this "Demon Man" is precisely in the conventional narrative to connect those interspersed whimsy.
a pure expression
He may be the successor of Jin Min in the future.
2018.1.10 / Blue Kite 1986
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