Say goodbye to the darkness in the corner.
On the waist of the Chinese version of “Goodbye Painted Pear”, it is written “When you are sad, let’s have a touch of fantasy!”.
Unlike “Fist of Flame” and “Chain Saw Man”, two juvenile manga that became famous in one fell swoop, the Fujimoto tree we saw in “Goodbye Eri” is still “better in condition” like “Suddenly Looking Back”, But still every page is full of freedom.
If you want to briefly summarize the story of “Goodbye Eri”, you can actually explain it in a few words.
At the behest of her seriously ill mother, the protagonist prepares to use her mobile phone to take pictures of her dying days. It edited these clips into a movie, and broadcast it at the cultural festival, but was ridiculed by the crowd. Frustrated, he intends to commit suicide, but he meets a girl who can appreciate his movies, and the two agree to make another movie that can touch everyone based on this frustrated experience.
The comics are filled with a lot of simulations of “virtual focus”, “empty mirror” and “voiceover”
If you only read this text version of the plot with the ending hidden, it is undoubtedly a boring story. But the wonderful thing about “Goodbye Eri” is that it uses the act of “making a movie” in the story to package the story in the story, and then packs the bigger story in a bigger gift box, so that readers can also Free in the gray area of fantasy and reality in the story.
In order to better achieve this effect, Fujimoto gave up the mature manga storyboard, which can be called the pillar of modern manga and gives the freeze-frame picture a sense of movement, and tried to move closer to the “storyboard” form in the film storyboard language.
In the 200-page content of the entire comic, almost all the content is expressed in a 4-frame wide screen per page, and only 9 content in the book breaks this form. Although this seems to use the language of the movie, because of its incoherence, it still undoubtedly exudes the unique charm of comics. In a form close to the origin of manga, it pays tribute to the completely different art form of film, and engraves the story of “Goodbye Eri” on the blurred boundary line between the two.
The form of “invalid shots” that repeatedly repeats similar pictures is already a common method used by Fujimoto to express the delicate emotions of characters
Fujimoto’s love for movies is probably his most well-known label to fans besides “psychopath”. Whether it is the “director” in “Flame Fist” who still wants to make movies in the last days, or the movie easter eggs that can be seen everywhere in “Chain Saw Man”, you can see his sincere love for movies and the terrifying number of viewings.
If you follow the shooting techniques and “coordinate principles” in some well-known movies with similar themes, such as “Fight Club”, “Inception” or “Lyceum Theatre”, you can indeed find many so-called “dividing the inside and outside of the play”. Reminder. For example, 9 different storyboard formats, or the “voice-over” dialog style.
Among them, the picture of Eri watching “Fight Club” is one of the 9 scenes of destroying the formation
But just as Fujimoto refused to admit that “Suddenly Looking Back” was adapted from his own experience, it may not be possible to deconstruct and analyze which ones in “Goodbye Eri” are performances and which are real. not so important.
In “Goodbye Eri”, the “sorrow” brought about by death is an important motivation in the story, but at the end of each story, it will be covered with “a touch of fantasy”. It doesn’t really matter if there’s an explosion that escapes everything, or a vampire that keeps reincarnating. The important thing is that we have seen that this is the attitude of the author of each layer to see the world.
If the memory is destined to be incomplete, he and the him he created still hope to keep the most beautiful appearance of the past. This does not mean escaping, but deciding how to recall a person and how to look at the world. This is the fantasy color that has been repeatedly mentioned.
After I finished watching “Goodbye Eri”, I also began to wonder whether this kind of fantasy that can blur the boundaries can also be found around me. At this time, I suddenly felt that readers also began to realize the existence of “explosions and vampires” in reality, and began to look for it. Perhaps this is what Fujimoto wanted to see-this may be the third line he drew Blurred borderlines. Can the frame of form really be broken, or does the so-called frame really exist? It all depends on how a mobile phone shoots and how a brush paints.
Looking at the “Goodbye Eri” that I just closed in my hand, this unforgettable reading experience and these nonsense may be this fantasy color – this is exactly what we just need when we are huddled in the darkness of reality thing.
At present, the simplified Chinese version of “Goodbye Painted Pear” has been launched on our mall and started pre-sale. Friends who are interested in this work, may wish to click on the title link below to have a look. If you buy it now, you can also get a limited edition for the first time: movie viewing commemorative film, and the book comes with an Eri impression puzzle card and movie watching time paper dice.
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