Today’s Film Review ｜ Is Red Pig a romantic fairy tale exclusive to middle-aged people？

Special feature of 1905 film network　Yes. Self-portrait? Is it a romantic fairy tale for middle-aged people?

"Red Pig is a film for everyone. I think this film can best express Miyazaki Hayao’s character. "

In today’s program, Liu Yanyan, the director and screenwriter, is the guest of The Red Pig.

Why did you buy a ticket to watch Red Pig?

Miyazaki Hayao’s film "Red Pig" was released in China on November 17th. This film was released in Japan in 1992. So far, this film has gained a good reputation at home and abroad. More than 30 years later, when the whole network can see the resources of Red Pig, the audience should go to the cinema to see Red Pig? Why is this?

First of all, as an animated film of Miyazaki Hayao, this film is well worth going to the cinema.

Blue sky and white clouds, endless sea, red plane, flying across the sea, splashing white water, beautiful young girls on it … These styles and pictures are well worth going to the cinema first.

Secondly, Red Pig, as a concise production technology in an animated film, will shock the audience on the big screen. At that time, Red Pig was very advanced in animation technology. It was a pure hand-painted film, which told about the air combat above the water. Today, if you draw it by hand, it is very difficult to do it. Watching Miyazaki Hayao’s sea air combat on the big screen is definitely a special feeling.

Miyazaki Hayao’s semi-autobiographical animated feature?

In the past two years, Miyazaki Hayao’s works have been shown many times, and they are also deeply loved by the audience. And this "Red Pig" seems to be different from their painting style.

Many viewers said, "It is a semi-autobiographical animated feature film of Miyazaki Hayao’s psychological level." What are the shadows of Miyazaki Hayao in the film Red Pig?

I still remember that Miyazaki Hayao mentioned it in an interview in his early years. He said that especially when he made this film, he was almost 50 years old like Bogo. He joked that "this is for his own willfulness."

The role of Red Pig is a middle-aged man. He lives in isolation, completely out of touch with the world, and has no friends. He lives in an isolated small atoll on the Adriatic Sea every day. Living in a state like a small paradise.

In reality, we can see from the visible materials that director Miyazaki Hayao himself is such a person. He rarely appears in Japanese industry, and his more formal public appearance is a commemorative concert. At the concert, the two men sat in the most conspicuous position in the middle, and in the process, Miyazaki Hayao went up specially to present flowers to Joe Hisaishi.

The relationship between Joe Hisaishi and Miyazaki Hayao is the relationship between Red Pig and his friends who repair airplanes — — We may not meet at ordinary times. In reality, when Miyazaki Hayao is going to make a movie again, Miyazaki Hayao will ask Joe Hisaishi to help me make a song. When the red pig had a problem, he went to the old man and said, "My plane is broken again, please help me repair it."

"Red Pig" is also very special. It is one of the few films in Miyazaki Hayao’s works with a male as the protagonist, and it is also a middle-aged male, which is unique in Miyazaki Hayao’s works.

In Liu Yanyan’s mind, Miyazaki Hayao’s character can best be expressed in this "Red Pig", which is even quite touching. This film broke the definition of handsome by many viewers. The reason why Red Pig is so attractive is that externalization into a kind of morality and principle, including that pride, touches many people’s hearts.

A fairy tale for middle-aged people?

Completely exclusive to middle-aged audiences. "Red Pig" is a film for everyone, with magical realism. It is full of artistic techniques before and after, which makes the film viewable.

At first, in your own heart, you may feel like a pig. In fact, this pig is a metaphor. In middle age, he feels like a pig, bloated and even sloppy and lazy sometimes.

Pretending to be a pig may be an excuse. In the film, Poluk, who is in the age of no doubt, expresses exactly a kind of philosophical thinking in different stages of his life. Even a pig can have a choice, which represents self-persistence.

From the film, we can get a lot of inspiration. The first thing in "Red Pig" is to tell you that people should persist; Second, people should not be stuck in one place and not change.

There is a hero in the film, who was a hero when he was young. For many reasons, he may have hesitated for a while, but in the end he stood up and fought again. "He will keep fighting until his mission is completed."

In fact, many lines in the film leave a aftertaste, including the lyrics of the ending song we saw in the film:

"To this day, I still have endless dreams. No matter where I go, I only know that there is no end to progress …"

I also hope that everyone can gain this courage and strength after watching the movie.