As soon as the Disney and Pixar icons came out, I knew this short was going to be good, and as I expected, the short was as polished as a full-length film.
The film begins with a fixed shot, a dark and a little bright star appears in the audience's perspective along with the sea, followed by the brisk guitar sound, and a boat with the logo of la luna is drawn from left to right.
The overhead shot of the camera completely shows the silent sea and the warm yellow boat, which gives a very dreamy feeling, but before the moon comes out, the pictures are all in cool colors, which also implies that the family relationship is not very good. Then the camera uses a close-up to show the audience the characters in the short film. I found that Pixar's animated short films almost never directly introduce the relationship between the characters to the audience, but the relationship between the characters can be well reflected through the action and demeanor of the characters. For example, through this set of close-up shots In the shot, we can see an old man, a child and an adult man, in which the old man and the adult man wear the same hat in different ways, suggesting that the hat is a work hat for cleaning the moon, regardless of the composition of the picture, or the When only my father was rowing the boat, we all knew that my father had absolute leadership on the boat.
The big eyes of the children here are full of ignorance and curiosity. The director seems to want to tell us that this is the first time the children have come to this sea, and they are full of curiosity about everything here. Then, from the eyes of the child looking at the rising moon, we can be more certain that this is the first time the little boy has come here with his family.
The moon rises, the soothing music plays again, the camera uses a distant view, the picture is more warm yellow and centered, the boat is in the center of the moon and the sea, the composition is centered and symmetrical, the moon and each other complement each other, making people feel suddenly warm in the heart of.
Also worth mentioning in the short film are the two quarrels between the grandpa and the father. The first one was about how to wear the child's hat. In the end, the father won, which once again implied the father's dominance. The second time was about the child's use of the hat. What tools are used to clean the moon and quarreling, the interesting point here is to compare the cleaning tools with the faces of grandpa and dad through the child's subjective perspective, we can find that the cleaning tools they use are very similar to their own beards, which also implies that they character.
Through previous imitations and explorations on the moon, the short film entered the climax, when a particularly large star landed on the moon. When dad and grandpa were at a loss, the child picked up a hammer they had never used before, and the director used The close-up shot of the child turning his hat to the back suggests that he has found his own way of survival, and the child's heart has become different from before. The full moon that appears at the beginning of the film turns into a new moon, which also symbolizes that the child has found his own path in life.
The story of Pixar's animated short has always been the simplest, but it also shows us that the little boy inherited from the initial imitation to the last brave innovation through this short seven minutes. I have to say that Pixar's attention to detail is very wonderful. .
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