Most cartoons fall into a rut. The stories are either fables and fairy tales, or kindergarten tidbits. It is often perfunctory for children, and torture for adults watching. However, the animated film "Naughty Detective" is not only rich in cultural connotation in the story, but also interesting in the design of the scene.
In fact, this movie is the second part of the series "Gnomeo and Juliet". The first one was released as early as 2011. It tells the story of the famous British Shakespeare drama "Romeo and Juliet". In the form of a lively and interesting animated film.
After seven years, the second installment of the series, "The Naughty Detective," has finally been released. This film still continues the original roles of the first film, still Romeo and Juliet and their family circle, but the story is no longer Shakespeare's famous play, but "Sherlock Holmes", which is also a representative of British culture.
So the film cleverly mashes up characters from two classics, allowing them to meet each other in an adventure story that's not just reminiscent of another animated film, The Lego Movie. In the latter, American pop culture is constantly ridiculed by the building block characters. In "Naughty Detective", it also created an interesting animated image: ceramics.
So throughout the movie, whenever the character starts to walk, or there is a physical collision, there will be a sound of ceramic rubbing against a stone. Along with the ceramic dolls, there are cloth dolls and plastic dolls, who together create a colorful world of dolls.
For Chinese audiences, the world of dolls also contains familiar elements, such as red lanterns and fat lucky cats. Watching these elements complement each other on the screen makes me laugh.
But these interesting forms are not a fancy shelf, but a warm topic: trusting and valuing the people closest to you.
Although the film tells the story of Sherlock Holmes and Watson helping Romeo and Juliet to save their relatives and going on an adventure, the final destination is how the four people re-establish mutual trust and value each other instead of ignoring each other's values. Therefore, this theme is very precious when it comes to animated films.
You know, adult parents take their children to the cinema to watch a beautiful animated film, not just to pass the time, but to hope that the values promoted by this film not only attach importance to "true feelings in the world", but also be persuasive .
"Naughty Detective" undoubtedly gave the answer perfectly.
A pair of true friends who have experienced ups and downs encounters a crisis of trust, and a pair of lovers who are considered a match made in heaven encounters a crisis of love. This seems to be a negative story for children, because its beginning is not complete, but broken.
But the reality is precisely the case, even underage children, they will encounter the reality of distrust and neglect in their life. However, how to face this situation and reasonably solve the dilemma is exactly the problem that "Naughty Detective" wants to solve.
It uses an interesting family-friendly story to gather together cultural elements familiar to adults, so that these virtual characters encounter real interpersonal crises, and they wake up and reflect on difficulties, until they finally realize that the most What is precious is often not being stubborn, but trusting the people around you who care about you the most.
The film interprets this theme in the symbolic action of "holding hands to rescue". Sherlock Holmes arrogantly dropped his cane to Watson, and finally grabbed Watson's cane; and Juliet also distrusted Romeo from the beginning to finally grabbing Romeo's hand and saving him.
Undoubtedly, the film hopes that when we treat our loved ones, please don't be stingy with your trust and attention.
"Naughty Detective" is to maintain a balance between such a beautiful family carnival form and the family carnival theme that attaches importance to the love of the world, so that the audience can feel the warmth of parent-children while having fun.
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