a Review of City of Lost Things
by: Larissa Kuo
english version
Where do you think our trash goes after throwing it away? No, not a factory, no not burned. Yes! They go to a “City of Lost Things”. So this journey, we will be taking you through the entire city of lost things.
At the start of the story, a little boy called “小樹” decided to leave his home. He told us that he hates home, he hates school, and he hates the streets. Until then, he got trapped by a truck that sucks trash in. When he was trying to stay alive, a plastic bag called “阿岱” grabbed on to his shirt and got to stay alive with 小樹. 阿岱 then took 小樹 to a city of lost things, also known as trash that escaped the armor. The plastic bags asked 小樹 to help them out and get them to change into a better thing. Of course, 小樹 doesn’t want to leave, so he told 城隍爺 about the plastic bags plan. The plastic bags got captured, but after all, the bag said something emotional to let 城隍爺 let them out. So they set off their journey.
I felt like this movie is not the best movie to be seen in the theater during this movie. So here’s a list of problems they could probably fix the movie with.
Unrealistic: Furniture can’t walk, nothing can walk except for humans and animals, so I think it’s not a good idea to let kids see unliving things walking around and climbing. this can cause them to think weirdly somehow and they will end up in school getting laughed at because he told his classmate’s unliving things can walk.
Thought while making the movie: The idea of how those plastic bags can hold on to each other and form a huge balloon is weird. and also, even if there are thousands of plastic bags together, they won’t be able to hold any heavy stuff like a person, a fan, a dragon, and a bunch of stuff inside of it.
The way the movie is structured: I feel like this movie has no beginning and end. It feels like the entire movie is just repeating over and over from top to bottom. So you get bored very easily at the end. I think they can make it reach a very high climax and let the viewers be so excited.
After we have listed out some problems from watching the movie, we need to try to think about what we can do to improve the movie. So here is another suggestion I think the movie can improve on. Thought when making the movie. When making the movie, I think the most important thing is, your making a movie for kids to watch. So it’s not a good idea to make a movie with such weird creatures able to move and fly.
After watching the movie, and changing it up a little. I still think that the movie will be quite boring. But I think it is a good movie for teaching kids about where the trash went.
chinese version
你認為我們的垃圾扔掉後會去哪裡？不，不是工廠，不是被燒毀。是的！他們去了一個「失物之城」。所以這次旅程，我們將帶你穿越整個失物之城。
故事一開始，一個叫「小樹」的小男孩決定離家出走。他告訴我們他討厭家，他討厭學校，他討厭街道。直到那時，他被一輛吸垃圾的卡車困住了。當他想活下去時，一個叫「阿岱」的塑料袋/塑膠類緊緊抓住他的襯衫，和小樹一起活了下來。阿岱隨後帶著小樹來到了一座失物城，也被稱為逃出盔甲的垃圾。塑料袋讓小樹幫忙，讓他們變成更好的東西。小樹當然不想走，於是把塑料袋/塑膠袋計劃告訴了城隍爺。塑料袋/塑膠袋被抓住了，但袋子畢竟說了些感情的事情，讓城隍爺放了他出來。於是他們開始了他們的旅程。
我覺得這部電影不是這部電影期間在劇院裡看到的最好的電影。所以這裡列出了三個他們可能可以改進這部電影的地方。
不切實際:
家具不能走路，除了人和動物甚麼都不能走路，所以我認為讓孩子們看到無生命的東西四處走動和攀爬不是一個好主意。這可能會導致他們以某種方式奇怪地思考，他們最終會在學校被嘲笑，因為他告訴他同學的無生命的東西可以走路。
拍電影時的想法:
這些塑料袋如何相互黏在一起形成一個巨大的氣球的想法很奇怪。而且，就算是幾千個塑料袋加在一起，也裝不下一個人，一個扇子，一條龍，一堆東西。
電影的結構方式:
我覺得這部電影沒有開始和結束。感覺整部電影只是從上到下一遍又一遍地重複。所以你最後很容易感到無聊。我覺得他們可以把它推到一個非常高的高潮，讓觀眾興奮投入。
在我們列出了一些觀看電影的問題之後，我們需要嘗試思考我們可以做些什麼來改進這部電影。所以這是我認為這部電影可以改進的另一個建議。製作電影時的想法。拍電影的時候，我覺得最重要的是，你拍一部給孩子看的電影。所以拍一部能動能飛的怪異生物並不是一個好主意。
看完電影，稍微改了下。我仍然認為這部電影會很無聊。但我認為這是一部很好的電影，可以教孩子們那些垃圾去了哪裡。