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Chapter 1174

That's right, the plot setting of "Spirited Away" itself is prepared for children. Children are all surprised and addicted to this grotesque fantasy world, where there are magical magic, weird and interesting characters, For example, a small briquette that can walk, a witch that looks like an owl and can fly, or maybe just the word "adventure" is enough for them to be excited and like it.

Of course, these are for the little friends. There is no doubt about this. There is no need to doubt the original intention of designing the plot in this animated film.

But today's animated movies want to be excellent animated movies and sell well, but they can't just be watched by children, because more and more adults are also starting to watch animated movies.

Moreover, the parents of the little friends are also the audience of this animated movie. Yes, maybe there are some animated movies. Most of the time, parents accompany their children to watch them. In movie theaters, parents may Doing my own thing, not interested in movies at all, just to accompany my children.

This is a very big failure for a movie, why?Because you can't win over your audience, and even make them watch it without knowing what the movie is about.

Then will they take the initiative to buy tickets and take their children to watch movies?I am afraid that most of them are entangled by their own children, so they think about buying tickets to accompany their children to watch.

One is active and the other is passive. The gap is not so big.

So, an animated film has to have something that appeals to adults.

Why was "Kung Fu Panda" successful?Because "Kung Fu Panda" is actually a simplified version of a martial arts story, but with a cute shell.

In this movie, children watch the panda who knows kung fu, while adults watch the things hidden under the surface, which makes people feel less childish.

What the little friends in "Despicable Me" saw was the whimsy of stealing the moon, but what the adults saw was the change in Gru's attitude towards children, and what they saw was his self-salvation and growth.

It can be said that the film "Wall-E" is not so friendly to young children, because it is more like a love fairy tale for adults.

As for "Spirited Away", this film has great ambitions, not only to make children like it, but also to conquer adult audiences.

In fact, audiences who have watched "Spirited Away" will never admit that this is a movie that is only suitable for children. They will say that it is more suitable for adults, because you don't have a certain experience. I really don't understand the truth and philosophical thinking contained in the film.

Animation is always preaching, it must be educational, and movies are always ironic and critical of reality, otherwise they are not profound, and this animation movie has everything, and its operation is simply "crazy"!
Isn't it and surprise?Everyone doesn't like preaching, especially in the age of the Internet, especially in this age when I am the authority, who likes preaching?

But Spirited Away does show those things.

The plot of the movie is shallow and deep. It seems to be a simple story of Chihiro's parents turning into pigs, and Chihiro wants to save them. However, it wants to express far more than that. The director has integrated his deep thinking about the real society into it. It has a very strong realistic color, or it is basically a reality film in the cloak of "fairy tales and magic", a veritable "adult fairy tale".

For example, this strange town like a dream seems to be unconstrained and far-fetched, but it is actually a portrayal of reality, and it has the same unshakable operating rules as our real society.

Here, you must eat the food here, otherwise you will disappear; however, you cannot overeat without restraint, otherwise you will become a pig.

Here, you have to find a job and prove your worth, and those who seek comfort will become animals and be exiled forever.

Here, money is still the supreme existence that everyone flocks to. For money, the gods can also fight for blood and lose their dignity.

At the same time, every character in the movie, whether it is the core protagonist or the supporting role, has extremely strong symbolic significance in reality.

Of course, adults' worlds, minds, and children are definitely different.

The same plot has completely different feelings in the eyes of children and in the eyes of adults.

For example, when Chihiro's parents become piglets, many children will be nervous about Chihiro and be afraid just like little Chihiro, but in the eyes of adults, they will remember that before, Chihiro's parents were lazy and lazy. Think this is causation.

And after that?The world of children is simple. Everything Chihiro has done and experienced is novel to them, so they will be curious and laugh innocently.

But for adults, it feels different.

Chihiro's parents turned into piglets, and after that, she lost the protection of her parents. When she had to be independent and strong, it was very similar to our parents getting old. We have also grown to the point where we have to leave our parents' wings. Familiar environment?
When we step into the big dye vat of society independently, even if we are afraid, helpless, and cry in the long night with our shoulders on our shoulders, in order to survive, in order to protect ourselves when they grow old and become fragile like our parents protected us when we were young They, we all end up drying our tears and moving on.

This is growth, we have to live in this way, just like Chihiro, we have to accept difficult and helpless work, or in reality we have more choices that come from difficult but helpless, which is not humane, but this is the essence of life The truth is, the difference is that some people are cowardly domesticated by the rules, while some people always live with a bottom line.

In the animated movie "Spirited Away", the faceless man can be said to be a very special, very special existence.

In the eyes of many children, the faceless man may be very scary, but in the eyes of adults, the existence of the faceless man is very special.

What Chihiro said: This person will turn bad in the bathhouse. In the innocent thinking of children, this is just a very interesting setting.

But in the eyes of adults, it is different. The faceless man is like innocent children. They are like a blank sheet of paper, but why do they turn bad in the bathhouse?
Because the bathhouse is like a society, the faceless man in the bathhouse has been dyed colorful from a blank sheet of paper by the big dye vat of society.

So it went bad, because in the bathhouse, like those temptations in society, let the white paper be dyed other colors.

In the end, the faceless man became better because of Chihiro, which is also a very simple example. Everyone's improvement or deterioration is related to the environment and the people they meet.

(End of this chapter)