I have finished watching "Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an". This is by far my favorite domestic long-form cartoon. As a long-form animation of ancient poetry, it is well done in terms of audio-visual language, conveying artistic conception, and restoring the characters.
"Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" allowed me to see the ups and downs of Li Bai and Gao Shi's life, and also allowed me to see the Tang Dynasty in its prosperous age, and understand the cruelty and ruthlessness of war and the helplessness of the times. After seeing the reality that although Pei Twelve was a talented woman, he could not be reused, he no longer knew Gao Shi through "Mo Chou has no friends in the future, and no one in the world knows you", but also through the "The smoke of the Han family is in the northeast. "The general Cijia of the Han Dynasty, a broken thief" met Gao Shi, a clumsy but loyal man who served his country and valued love and righteousness. I also know that Li Bai was free and easy and arrogant in the early stage, and then he was very angry when his talent was not recognized in the later stage. I also know what era created these geniuses.
I cried several times while watching it, because of the unrecognized talents of the Tang Dynasty poets, for every life choice of Li Bai and Gao Shi, for the dancing and graceful shadows of the singing girls when the city was broken, and for the Pei family’s inability to use their swordsmanship. I sigh because of the elegance and helplessness of "Jinjinjiu", because of Ge Shuhan's tragic death, because of the troubled fate of the Chang'an poet, and because of the sentence "Poems are in books and they are in Chang'an."
"Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" is very good. Its goodness does not lie in how many poets and poems appear in the film. After all, they have long been in the hearts of the Chinese people. These poems have been catchy since childhood, but few people understand the background of their creation; few people know how poets failed to write poetry in an era when everyone wrote poems. Those who changed their ambitions and stood out; few people explore the Tang Dynasty's transition from prosperity to decline, and the living conditions of the poets, soldiers, and common people in the inclusive Tang Dynasty. The advancement of every plot in the film is unfolding for poetry and Chang'an.
Poetry is in the book in Chang'an. The long poem at the end of the film is not only touching, but also shocking. This is a cultural romance unique to the Chinese, and a poetic state that only Chinese animators can create. .
When I was young, I didn’t know the meaning of the poem. At that time, I just felt that memorizing ancient poems was too painful. But when all this was re-presented in the form of images, I deeply felt the soul-shaking beauty. At the end of the film, the child said: "So this sentence This is how poetry comes.” Perhaps this is the closed loop of education. In the 168-minute film, no part is superfluous, and every part has its purpose. After watching it, I just felt that I still had a lot to enjoy, and I will definitely watch it again.