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== Day 176 == | |||
--- Eric version --- | |||
'''The Legend of Hei''' | |||
So recently I decided to watch the legend of Hei simply because he was a super duper cute kitty, and oh my god the storytelling was incredible. This might honestly be one of the best fusions of being complicated and having an intricate storyline while still being clean. | |||
I need not tell the story here - just search it up on rednote and there'll be a thousand posts on it lol. I do wish to talk about its two aspects though. I'll start with what I think made this movie/animation great: its character relationships are clean. Don't get me wrong, Chinese movies never disappoint in the complicated relationships every character has, but in Hei everything can be boiled down more or less to just one word. For example, Hei and Wuxian's relationship is simply mentor-student, and Wuxian and Luye's relationship is mentor-student as well, even though they are of the opposite gender and have so much in similar. If it was any other movie they would almost definitely have a romantic relationship, but definitely not in the legend of Hei! I appreciate this on two sides: first, it makes the entire movie experience much simpler by removing the more confusing aspects of character development, what we may call 纠缠不清 in Chinese. Second, it offers a great respite from all the love stories out there where either a student and mentor find love or something else, and - although you would think that love experiences could foster creativity - the lack of it makes this movie even more creative and impressive. | |||
The second is its intricate storyline. Even though most characters are cartoon-like, the story is incredibly serious. A war of two species - not only a simple arms war, but one with deep relationships. To not spoil anything, I won't dive into the details, but I still need to give one example to illustrate just how mature the story actually is compared to the animations. | |||
Bad guy: "blah blah blah super bad dude yapping bout why war and relationships are tense" | |||
Some guy: "Cut it. The guild - no, WE do not need your reason." | |||
Bad guy: "But will you tell them the truth?" | |||
Some guy: "[epic frowning]" | |||
Bad guy: "You will not. Thus you will treasure this reason. I'll go to ... to [proceeds to yap]" | |||
Some guy: "No. You will not go to ... You're not going anywhere. For the foreseeable, nobody will know where you are." | |||
A complicated and ever-evolving storyline never fails to hook in a viewer, and this movie took full advantage. With the characters' relationships being simple, viewers are allowed to focus more on how the plot develops, for example: how is the war going to develop? How is it going to end? What will the guild do? What will the humans do? Will there even be a war? In most other series, however, the only thing viewers can focus on is the overcomplicated love relationships, and it is impossible to fully figure those relationships out due to their sheer complexity. | |||
Of course this is just my opinion, but for me, a cute kitty cat with simple relations and a complicated storyline is kinda fire 🔥 | |||
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