I have always wanted to see the Millennium Actress by Satoshi Kon. It really didn’t disappoint. Although the design is not beautiful, and the tone is not so bright，But after watching it, I fell in love. There are no touchy-feely idiotic passages, no hot-blooded battles, and no girlish feelings that are ambiguous and shy. There is only the ordinary sadness and kindness of the homeless. In the ordinary life occasionally expressed a little insight, interspersed with black humor. Perhaps such animation is worthy of the word art.
Three of them，All of them homeless，They found a baby girl abandoned in a garbage dump on Christmas Day. So they decided to find the mother. Because the gay “Miss” said that I wanted to ask her mother why she abandoned her, and if her answer was acceptable, I would forgive my mother, too. Maybe this is the real world. But the reality was beautiful in the snow scene. Mr. King, the owner of the bicycle shop, had abandoned his wife and daughter for gambling and drinking. He came home without a face, so he lived on this street for many years. He’s been running away, from his past, from the baby he wants to take care of, from seeing his wife. But it is such a useless man to escape, actually for a paper bag and with pain to chase bully his children. In that paper bag was 30,000 yen saved for his daughter. I just hope my daughter can forgive him.
The unattractive girl, Miyuki, jumped from the train with a pale face to escape her father. “Because I had no face to go back to, I stabbed my father.” In fact, in her mind, she still felt that stabbing her father was unforgivable; otherwise she would not have seriously escaped from her father in the snow day. She was talking quietly to the wife of the man who had killed the star of the party. She still missed home, and when she climbed down and cried, it was probably because she thought of her father who had thrown away the cat and her angry self. I really like the character of the girl, it’s very realistic, and of course the other two characters, especially Miss Hoe, are portrayed very characteristically and perfectly. But still prefer such a child.
As for the peer love “Miss Hoe” is supposed to be the least easy to accept people. ‘If I let my child move around and get no love, I’d rather keep it by myself,’ he said. Taking the child into his box over the objections of the other two，”As much as I wanted to be a mother, at the end of the day I was just gay.” In fact, life is very helpless. Miss Hoa, who once worked in a GAY bar, also left town with a man. But then the man died. Although he said it easily, but still thinks it is a deep black humor.
There are many classic lines, and every paragraph of the story is constructed to be very real. Give a person a delicate feeling. Christmas So many sad things happened on what should have been a beautiful day. Fortunately, the author gives us a very hopeful ending. After telling the profound things like “man’s irresponsibility”, “father and children don’t understand”, “for their own happiness regardless of others”, we can still see the beautiful morning sun that the kind of A flower saw. Isn’t that supposed to represent hope?
“You’re the only one of us who has nowhere to go back to?” “Miyuki said. “We want the homeless man to be godfather to this baby.”
Not the cheesy happy ending of a TV show. Everyone finds their own direction and family in this story. This should be many times better than the boring farce that ends with laughter. This represents the baby girl story of the Christmas miracle, and Hoa is only talking to himself when he keeps saying, “God really loves this baby.” Believe in God’s love, believe in the goodness of the world, believe in the beauty of the universe, and believe that there will always be a miracle at Christmas. I wish it would snow at Christmas this winter.
