How to evaluate The Adventure of Sound and Dream

Via Jomai is a famous director. He produced very little, only one animated short film and two animated feature films, in addition to a five-minute short film "Paris, I Love You".

Jomai's works generally do not rely on dialogue or even lack dialogue, and are deeply influenced by silent film style and mime. No matter the style, animation form or accent, it is unique in French films and even in the world.

As the first live-action movie in Qiao Mai, The Adventure of Sound and Dreams is no exception. This movie is still smart, still wins with music, and most importantly, still has a childlike innocence. It may be trivial, but like other works of Jomai, the adventure of sound and dreams will never offend you. It is like sunshine and morning dew, like rain touching the heartstrings, trying to infect the soul of the audience.

Like the inner theme involved in many movies, the shadow of Paul, the hero of The Voice of Dreams, is getting bigger and bigger. He lost his parents at an early age and can't speak. This movie is about

Stage photo

Stage photo

It is how Paul handles and faces unpleasant memories and completes the process of being guided, released and fulfilled. Interestingly, the name of the old woman who plays the psychotherapist is Proust, which seems to bring the voice of dreams closer to the stream of consciousness and enrich the film text.

The Adventure of Sound and Dream created a dream from the beginning, and then switched between lucidity, unconsciousness and subjective illusion. Paul's six personal memories appeared in the form of Iris (baby's subjective perspective). These chapters are more colorful and lively, mixing silent films, animations, songs and dances, fairy tales and other different forms and styles. Singing and dancing, flowing, echoing from beginning to end, quite brilliant. What impressed me most was that my parents wrestled on the stage. At first, my father used violence to suppress my mother, and finally my mother beat the wrestler with dance steps and kisses, which was quite novel.

Another point of the film is music, and the use of sound (voiceover) is also excellent. There are both regular piano performances and waltzes, and the ukulele, which has been quietly popular in recent years, is fresh and lovely. An indispensable accordion for French films

Accompaniment, as well as erhu imported from China, are mixed together, giving the film an international flavor. Even if you listen carefully, there is Chinese singing in the ending song (and an egg on the beach).

In addition, there are many elements outside France in the film, including Paul drinking a cup of Indian herbal tea every time he falls into hallucination memories. As for the room full of green vegetables, it is even more oriental and full of light, which is purely the product of the studio.

However, cartoons and live-action movies are completely different forms of creation after all. Jomai always inevitably adds familiar animation techniques, such as frequent close-ups of the protagonist's eyes and pupils, which makes the film look young at once, and says the supporting role of myth. His offline thinking may be quite brilliant in comics, because those technologies are in an unrealistic situation. In a live-action movie, there will always be some jumps in the adventures of sound and dreams, which will affect the impression. Obviously, it is much more difficult to shoot a silent hero (not to mention a lot of movies) than to shoot a silent cartoon.

The adventure of sound and dream can not bring the conventional narrative of Hollywood movies, nor can it satisfy the expectations of the audience with a set of conflicts. However, just like the ecstasy tea that Paul drinks, if this movie is a cup of tea. Then, Qiao Mai's imagination pays tribute to many references to old movies and even his personal style twin aunts. Will bring enough surprises and accidents.