The balance of the summer vacation is over half. Do you have a good time watching the animations of these students in the past few months?

Compared to Japanese animation, the recent discussion about domestic animation is quite lively. In fact, we receive private messages from readers every few days, and we want to see us talk about domestic animation. There has been no good opportunity to start this topic, and in the past 2019, it just happened to be a very good time

The film has “The Devil’s Angels Come into the World” to let the audience see the future of Chinese animated films; there is also a quality work in the drama, that is, “Ling Cage”. This domestic animation was noticed three years ago, and it was prepared to meet with the audience for a long time. There were many breakthroughs in the plot and the picture. When I started broadcasting at Station B, I gained a very high popularity. At present, the number of broadcasts exceeded 30 million times, and I got a score of 9.7 (the time of finalization)

Details determine the success or failure of the work.

As far as the three episodes broadcasted by Linglong are now, whether it is a rough vision of future technology or a close-knit portrait of a character, you can see that the art of production is a great effort.It doesn’t matter if the protagonist group is a corpse that acts as a background, it is not difficult to see the details from its modeling

And the amazing thing about “Ling Cage” is not only the exquisite character modeling, but also the great scene description. As a surviving film of the near future, the dust and dust effect of the ground, the wreckage of the old world, and the lighthouse filled with heavy metal and sci-fi feelings, it has restored the appearance of the end of the world

Wonderful fighting scenes are naturally a magic weapon to attract the attention of the audience. Compared to the past “turn-based” fighting, “Ling Cage” obviously spent more time on the performance

The team of the elite team, the mistakes in the panic, the huge boss-level monsters, the slow motion of the enemy, and the escape of the birth. These contents, combined with the transformation of the first person perspective and the long lens, create a compact sense of rhythm, and people can’t help but following the heartbeat

As the official first battle in the animation, the protagonists encountered a creature called “Spine”, which looks like a large cockroach, and has a hard armor, its unique shape and slightly The mad limbs make people shudder, even if they rely on equipment and rich combat experience to be able to repel the monsters for a while, it seems that they are winning in danger, but they are far from being able to eliminate the ontology

Human beings in the vast and meticulous ecological environment far beyond the imaginary alien creatures, always remind everyone that under the world of “Ling Cage”, in addition to the grandeur of the last days, there is also a deep horror

The grand “spirit” stage.

The human beings who have experienced the catastrophe have ushered in a new world in the air fort called “Lighthouse”. The past civilizations have ceased to exist. The new civilization is respected by the “light and shadow teaching”. Although the direction of the will is unified, it has abandoned that human beings should have feelings and connections. The opposition between class and thought born from religion, where human beings should go in two concepts, this should be the contradiction that emerged on the stage of the story

Animations should refer to many sci-fi and religious works, which also makes the world view of animation more ambitious and the story deeper. At present, animation has shown the “end of the world”, “heterogeneous crisis”, “hierarchy” and some elements of “religion”. It feels very similar to “cave fables”, but it is still to lead to more sharp topics

It is hard to imagine that religion is to give way to the hierarchy. The world is divided into dust and the people, and the dust people are inferior people. According to the content of the first episode, the dust people are at the lighthouse (that is, human beings). The new place of existence is inferior, and the dust people, as a poorly existential gene, cannot breed offspring. Finally, the dust people cannot become the people

The consequences of this are necessarily the fierce resistance that has occurred since the oppression, leading to changes in society as a whole. It will be able to solve the ethnic problems raised by some people for everyone

I guess that the story should be the first to solve the energy problem, followed by a riot and resistance, although I don’t know which side will win the fruit of victory, but in the end I have to sort out the mess of the last days

Going back to the animation itself, the title “Ling Cage” is exactly what is “spirit”? What is the relationship between the “spirit” and the human class? The “cage” may be better understood, a stumbling block that binds humans, and a rope. Because of humanity, it will lead to such a tragic position. At such a difficult level as the end of the world, the gene theory of human race was promoted, so that we have to think of another level, breaking the cage of our own thoughts and resisting the extreme line of suppression

And this resistance is not only an institutional rebellion, but also a spiritual liberation

In the worldview of Ling Cong, we can know that the world has abandoned family and love. There is no concept of family between human beings, and there is no concept of loved ones. Here, family is a taboo, so that the word “father” is a kind of failure. But can humans really abandon family and love?

From the first words, the dusty people are willing to sacrifice their hearts in order to save their own husbands. In the third words, when the red dragonfly is taken away, I hope to hear a “sister”… In this last world For what reason can not exist family and love, this suspense is believed to be revealed as the story unfolds. This will also become a core contradiction in addition to class and religious contradictions in the story

In the third sentence, Hung Hom’s love is beautiful and sad. As a warrior, she is not afraid of death, but has not really lived. In this desolate end of the world, nothing is more precious than love. In the third pre-announcement, we can vaguely know that the next story is a story about the mother and the child

We saw “Hope” as the core keyword of the next words, reminding me of the classic lines in “The Wandering Earth”. “In this era, hope is something as precious as a diamond.”

The difficulty of the end-of-the-world works is maintained.

From the three episodes just broadcast, the core of Linglong’s expression should be similar to the past and the end of the world. For example, the story of “The Attacking Giant”, human beings are trapped inside the wall, the giant outside the wall The situation is embarrassing, and the internals are constantly consumed because of the struggle

But this kind of work can often be the first to set people up, but the development of the follow-up plot is the most difficult place

A lot of settings need to be explained with enough space, and relying on the actions of the protagonist to promote the story, there are bounds to be limitations. Therefore, we actually saw a lot of strong supporting roles in the spiritual cage. They would like to have various kinds of playing opportunities in the following stories. In a straightforward way, how to use them to develop the details of the story and mobilize the audience’s emotions. It will not let the audience have a very strong “toolman” sense of function, which will also bring challenges to the subsequent plot layout

But once you fall into the “trap” of a group drama, it is equally difficult to finish all the stories in a season. “Ling Cage” is different from the familiar TV animations, and is currently broadcast in a biweekly format. This naturally has the initial intention of pursuing quality and being responsible for the audience, but in theory, it takes longer to wait until the whole story is fully unfolded

This is not only to hope that the audience will not lose their sense of freshness in the process of waiting, but also challenge the art painting to open the sky to ensure the quality of production, how to bury at each time node to let the audience expect the subsequent explosion point

For example, just like the “hope” mentioned in the third episode of the previous episode, “hope” is often an eternal theme in the works of the last days. Speaking well is “eternal”, how to present the “hope” that seems very ethereal to the audience in the “desperate” living environment, not to be said to be “old talk”, presumably the story after “spiritual cage” the key of

“Wandering Earth” tells the audience that Chinese people can make good science fiction movies;
“Where is the devil of the world”, people can see the future of Chinese animated films;
“Ling Cage” is a new attempt by Chinese animation in the field of sci-fi dramas

Although some of the themes discussed in “Ling Cage” are not new for sci-fi or end-time themes, the fine techniques of painting and narrative are still full of expectations for the follow-up. The current audience of domestic animation is generally The words are still very young. If you can tell the story of such a huge world view, “Ling Cage” will have extraordinary significance for how to tell stories in the future of domestic animation

In any case, the quality of “Ling Cage” is enough for many viewers to abandon the ideological ambiguity of Chinese original animation quality

Finally, the theme song “Incarnation” of “Ling Cage” is sung by Zhang Xiaoying, who is very familiar to everyone. It is well known that her singing voice is very appealing. This time, the inspirational voice and “The Cage” The spirit cores that are delivered match each other perfectly, which fits the audience’s imagination of the sci-fi theme song.The story of

“Ling Cage” will continue, at least for now, it seems that this attempt has been recognized by most viewers, and hopes will bring more surprises to everyone