by Olivia Wang

Recently, a Taiwanese original animation with trash as the main axis was rarely born in Taiwan's film industry. This is also Taiwan's first animated feature film. This film won the Golden Horse Award for Best Animation Feature Film in 2020! Now let's talk about this movie together!

The content of “City Of Lost Things” is about a 16-year-old boy “Leaf” run aways from home and school, go to the street but also get bullying, so he gave up his self. Then he met a plastic bag “Baggy”, Leaf followed Baggy to the “City Of Lost Things” and embarked on a series of adventures with him. In the process, Leaf escaped and gave up, but fortunately, at the end of the story, he successfully found his own value, and embarked on a new life.

The theme of this movie is very novel, and when you see the synopsis of the story, you will be full of curiosity. But after I watched this movie, I was a little disappointed. The whole class watched the movie as a whole, there are very few people who have finished. so let's explore the reasons why the whole class has almost “annihilated”. First, for the role, I think the director entered the plot too quickly. At the beginning of the movie, he explained the background of the character in just three sentences. The character creation was not complete enough to tell the audience enough information about the role. Many times I feel very confused and don't understand why this character feels this way at this moment. The second point is that I think there are many novel and interesting ideas in this movie that I want to show the audience, but all these ideas just clicks then stop. They did not continue to support the same point, so in fact, the impression left to the audience is not profound. The third point is that the ending of the movie disappointed me a bit. The whole movie is about the story of the protagonist's final Nirvana rebirth after going through many difficulties together. But in the end, the plastic bag is still a plastic bag. The only difference is there are add some flowers on the plastic bag. which makes me feel that everything the protagonists have done before is meaningless, and that they have done so many things but just staying in the same place.

In view of the above three points. first, entering the plot directly before the audience has a sufficient understanding of the character will make the audience confused about the emotions and reactions shown by the character, and the audience will not be able to resonate with the story. Before entering the main storyline, first add some small events to let the audience to understand the protagonist’s personality and behavior style, beliefs, etc. Then the audience can better understand the protagonist's behavior and mood, and then resonate. Next point, this movie have many interesting and thought-provoking point, but each of them is just superficial, so that the audience is not impressed. I think if you want to impress the audience In the story, you can repeatedly mention the same point, and let the plot revolve around these points, and use the plot to make the audience remember what you want to express. I personally think that making golden sentences is indeed a simple and powerful way, but if it's only show the expressed in golden sentences, and the heat is not enough and not impressive enough, then the movie will become unremembered. At the end, the part where the ending is scribbled. I feel that everything the protagonist did before is meaningless. I think the ending of the movie is definitely one of the most important part in the whole movie. At the end, give the audience a satisfactory answer , An impressive ending is of the utmost importance. When the screenwriter arranges the ending, if the person spends more time thinking about it and clearly expresses to the audience what he/she wants to convey to the audience, he/she will make this movie more valuable.

Anyway, the conclusion is that when we're create anything, we should all give them some kind of meaning. When a thing don't have any meaning to any person, then it really become a trash.

by Olivia Wang

近期台灣電影界罕見誕生了一部以垃圾為主軸的台灣原創動畫，這同時也是台灣的首部動畫長片，這部電影在2020年一舉拿下了金馬獎最佳動畫長片的獎項肯定！今天就讓我們一起來聊聊這部電影吧！

「廢棄之城」它的內容在講述一位16歲的少年「小樹」，因找不到人生方向，蹺家逃學，甚至在街頭也被霸凌，在絕望之際，遇到了一個不甘只是垃圾的塑膠袋「阿袋」。小樹跟著阿袋來到廢棄之城並與其展開一系列冒險，過程中小樹逃避過、放棄過，但好在他在故事的最後，成功找到了自己存在價值，並踏上了嶄新的人生。

這部電影的題材非常的新穎，看到故事大綱時就會讓人產生滿滿的好奇心，但在我看完這部電影後，我是有點失望的，全班同學中，將電影全程看完的人寥寥無幾，所以接下來我們就來探討讓全班同學幾乎「全軍覆滅」的原因吧。第一點，對於角色，我認為導演進入劇情的速度有些太快了，在電影的開頭，僅僅三句話就交代完了人物的背景，角色塑造不夠完整，沒有告訴觀眾足夠的角色信息，很多時候我都覺得很疑惑和不理解為什麼這個角色在此時此刻會有這樣的感受。第二點，我認為這部電影有很多新穎和有趣的想法想傳遞給觀眾，但所有的這些想法都只是點到為止，並沒有去持續的支持同一個論點，所以其實留給觀眾的印象並不深刻。第三點，電影的結局讓我有點失望，這整部電影就是在講述主角們一起經歷了重重難關後，最後涅槃重生的故事，但到最後塑膠袋就還是塑膠袋，唯一的區別就是塑膠袋上面加了一些花，這讓我感覺主角們之前所做的一切都很沒有意義，做了這麼多事都只是在原地踏步而已。

針對以上這三點，「首先」，在觀眾尚未對角色產生足夠了解的情況下直接進入劇情，會讓觀眾對於角色展現出的情緒及反應感到困惑，導致無法與這個故事產生共鳴，但如果在進入主線劇情之前，先加入一些的小事件，讓觀眾透過觀察主角的處理方式，來了解主角的為人及行事風格、信仰……等等，這樣步入主線劇情時，觀眾或許就能更好的理解主角的行為、心境，進而產生共鳴。「再來」，這部電影提出了許多有趣，並且值得讓人思考的論點，但每個都只是蜻蜓點水，以至於留給觀眾的印象並不深刻，我覺得如果想給觀眾留下深刻的印象，在故事中可以不斷的重複提到同一個論點，並讓劇情圍繞在這些論點上，運用劇情去讓觀眾去記住你所想表達的事物。我個人認為，製造金句的確也不失為一個簡而有力的方式，但如果單純只用金句來表達，又加上火候不夠、不夠令人印象深刻，那麼這部電影就會變得毫無記憶點。「最後」，對於結局潦草結束，感覺主角前面所做的一切都毫無意義的部分，我覺得電影的結局，絕對是整部電影中最重要的環節之一，在最後給觀眾一個滿意的答覆、一個讓人印象深刻的結尾，是至關重要的，編劇在安排結局的時候，如果能多花點心思，明確地向觀眾表達最後想傳遞給觀眾的事物，那一定會為這部電影加很多分。

總而言之，我的結論是，當我們在創造任何事物時，我們都應該將他們賦予意義，當一份事物沒有了意義時，那才是真的成為了垃圾。

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