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Thoughts after the lecture in week 2

Experimental Action

Artists are naughty. Artists like to have their own playground and play whatever they want to play, in an usual or unusual way. They have so many ideas in their mind and would like to try it out in order to see how it would turn out in the end. They don't even know what will come up finally during the process.

In this Chinese New Year break I watched "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" two times, one in Cantonese and one in Japanese. Animation like this are facing extinction. Miyazaki's could be interpret in many ways in each of his work. Basically signifying the ironic nature of childhood innocence and adults' complicated mind.

Many people accused him this time not being able to produce a piece of work that can be understand by the audience. Neither do I understand the whole story clearly. However, I appreciate movies or animations which allows me to think aggressively. There are many hidden plots and metaphor in the animation and I only understand half of the movie after second viewing.

Artists central idea or main reason of producing the work may not be so important compared to how the audience interpret it. In the end the artists may just want to create something he wanted without thinking of how the audience would react.