Within this lecture we were shown an animation, which was directed by Mori Masakis in 1983 called Barefoot Gen. It is an anime film and was the first ever translated into English, the poster example that we were shown for this was like a comic strip, this was created by Keija Nakazawa. The anime film was based on the events that happen in Japan on the 6th August 1945, which was based around the time of the bombing of pearl harbour. However it was the story that was based towards the bombing that happened in Japan around the time. It is a Japanese artist and/or author that is looking into these events. Within this lecture we watched the first 30 minutes of the animated documentary.
Within this animated documentary there is lots of symbolism within the film to create a strong crop. All of the arguments with the people in this film is to do with the food shortages, it's like a metaphor to show the symbolism of food shortages in the town that the anime film was set. The animation is about the lives of the people that were living in Japan when the war was taking place between Japan and the USA and the attack on Pearl Harbour in Hawaii. A plane known as a B-29 is seen undetected and bombs part of this town that is being shown in the anime.
In my opinion I am not sure about this Film and Animated Documentary, as the storyline of the animation was very sad, as the little boy saw his father, little brother and older sister die due to the bomb attack on the town. I had a lot of mix feelings about this animation.
We then moved on to look at David Deamer who is the author of the book known as Deleuze, Japanese Cinema and the Atomic Bomb. He wrote this book as an analysis of the animation that we had just watched, which he compares with the Lucky Dragon in 1959.
Going back to the Animated Documentary there was no dialogue at all throughout the explosion to give a effects that creates a big impact to the film when this event is taking place. We get to see the expression of the emotion throughout the event. Another point that I want to make about this animation is that there are lots of metaphors and symbolisms.
The final part that we looked at within this lecture was someone called Thomas Lamerre, who focused on the comic strip between Barefoot Gen. Both the Structural Line and the Plastic Line and how they vary over the course of the Animation film and Documentary.
