a while ago i watched "my life as a zucchini" (ma vie de courgette, 2016) - a movie that honestly broke me, but that's not the point.
i spotted a little girl reading franz kafka's metamorphosis.
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i was talking about “my life as a zucchini” to a friend which i had watched years ago and googled the pics to show her and i saw this lucy character and realized she looked so much like sanji
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Writing “My Life As a Zucchini” really made things different for me. For the first time, I was writing officially for kids. They were always in the back of my mind. When I’d made “Tomboy” and was screening the film, I had tried to make the film watchable by kids. [laughs] But this time, it was official, and the book I was adapting was dealing with a high level of violence and truth around abuse. I was facing this riddle of, “How do you adapt that for a kid audience?”
It made me ask myself questions about the ethics of writing for kids, of creating a safe space — which doesn’t mean that you’re just saying things that are harmless. It means you’re creating a world, a structure and atmosphere, so they feel they can take the risk of trusting the film. You’re creating a safe space so someone can give their emotions and be active with it. For the first time, I also went more straightforward with dialogues, characters expressing their emotions. That experienced how I felt, which also meant the pleasure I felt, at how it felt right. It had an influence on my politics of writing.
And animation, in general, has been inspirational. No one’s saying Miyazaki is doing cinema for kids, whereas people say that about Pixar movies they will watch, reluctantly, next to their kids. It’s democratic cinema, for everyone. It’s also not the groove that we expect that kids would indulge well. There are a lot of different grooves in Miyazaki’s films, as they go. I was thinking about “My Neighbor Totoro,” about kids in nature. Even the dramaturgy of animation — which is generally linked to loss, to goodbyes, to being grateful, to leaving the world of childhood — deals a lot with grief. And adventure, too: the adventure of solitude and the wild that is just outside your house.
Céline Sciamma on animation
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Ah yes I love dark themed stop motion animation about parental problems
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Today’s Autistic character of the day is:
Ahmed from My Life as a Zucchini
Requested by @autisticcc-emo
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My life as a Zucchini (2016)
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