Dad with Bao Bao wants to eat Char Siu Bao

Della 2022-04-07 09:01:07

"Baby Bao", directed by Shi Zhiyu and produced by Pixar, won the Best Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

The short film begins with a series of long shots that define the background of the story in a Chinese family.

In the cover, the mother is lying in front of a small window, giving a faint depression.

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The use of the lens throughout the article is not dazzling, with a large number of fixed camera positions and no-skill editing. There is only one dissolve and one camera shift. (Perhaps to express a habit of being content with the status quo?) Theater spotlights at the end of dreams and blurring after waking up

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panning
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In multiple punch cards, I found that there are a lot of details in the film. Such as the lines on the breakfast TV:

- You don't even want a home for that vixen - that's my wife, not a vixen - I'm pulling you big with shit and piss

This dialogue is a foreshadowing of the end of the dream. Baozi and his girlfriend left, and the mother was reluctant to bear her son.

In addition, if there is an extra chair in the house, the living room, the pictures on the walls of the son's room and the mother's room

It is possible to set up the scene, decorate the home and the neighborhood. Indicates a gathering place in China. Three times the CN Tower, the Canadian flag. Build a familiar Chinatown.

The music of the short film is well received, a large number of Chinese musical instrument elements are organized in a symphonic way, and it is in line with the mood and plot of the short film. (The last song is an animated short film of Servant らの手にはHE もないけど, the lamb and its mother)

The tonal handling of short clips is also good, such as

Compared with Figure 2, here is a cooler color
Warm tones after baby appears
Tone contrast between front and middle and back
Same as above
Cool colors express the character's heart
Misunderstanding with light and shadow
The son in the light and the mother in the dark

This is a short film praising mother's love. The mother takes care of her son in every possible way, and it is difficult to accept the departure when she grows up. At first glance, it feels like saying that the mother spoils her son too much, but after watching it many times, it feels more like saying: let go, but the relationship between mother and son will not change. Will still Chenghuan kneel, eat a barbecued pork bun.

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Extended Reading
  • Pedro 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    It's fine, but I don't like the story. What does it mean to eat steamed buns, I tend to think that all this is the dream of an empty-nest mother. I don't think empty nesters can put all the pressure on children. They don't have their own personal interests and hobbies in their own world, and no one can make them happy.

  • Coby 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    Because of the dream of eating the child, the mother realizes the subconscious attack and control of the child. The evil in the subconscious is not the evil that really happens, and in any intimate relationship there are attacks and hurts lurking. People should fully understand their own complexity and accept it. Instead of blindly rejecting things that you are afraid to admit and unwilling to face. Those who gave this film a low score, I can only say that they completely misunderstood the sincerity of a creator. The creator obviously does not agree with this suffocating mother, but does not stand on her opposite to criticize her. This angle is actually difficult to grasp.

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