这个清明节档期，中国内地市场大概要感谢七次号称“退休”、又屡屡言而无信的宫崎骏。


图片来源：电影《你想活出怎样的人生》官微

今年八十三岁高龄的宫崎骏老爷爷，又为中国影迷带来了他的“告别之作”—— 《你想活出怎样的人生》。从4月3日上映至今，短短四天，已斩获4.45亿元票房，足见中国影迷们对他的喜爱之情。



The Tomb-Sweeping holiday has emerged as a new box office season in recent years, and has been dominated by the latest work of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, also known as How Do You Live. 6park.com
Although Miyazaki has announced his retirement seven times without fully stepping away from filmmaking, this inconsistency has delighted his fans. So far, the new film has grossed nearly 400 million yuan ($55.3 million) at the box office, underscoring his enduring popularity among Chinese fans. 6park.com
这部新作，也标志着2003年的《千与千寻》之后，宫崎骏再次捧得奥斯卡最佳动画长片奖的小金人。 6park.com
有不少影评认为，《你想活出怎样的人生》可能是宫崎骏迄今为止最“私人化”、也最难以看懂的一部作品。 6park.com
Many film critics describe the new movie as Miyazaki’s most “personal” and, also, most difficult-to-understand work to date. 6park.com
不同于宫崎骏过往作品中主人公的阳光明媚，《你想活出怎样的人生》中的少年牧真人孤独阴郁，和童年时的宫崎骏有相似之处。



1944年，时值二战后期，年仅3岁的宫崎骏随家人离开东京，搬到乡下。他的父亲在一家战斗机工厂工作，而宫崎骏的母亲因为生病，也多年卧床不起。在《你想活出怎样的人生》的开篇里，真人早早就失去母亲，父亲带着他从东京搬到乡下，父亲忙于自己的工厂事务。种种细节，与宫崎骏的童年多有重叠之处，让这部影片从一开始，就充满了浓郁的半自传色彩。 6park.com
In the year 1944, during the later stages of World War II, the 3-year-old Miyazaki left Tokyo with his family and moved to the countryside. His father worked at a fighter plane factory, while Miyazaki’s mother was bedridden for many years due to illness. In the opening of the new movie, the protagonist loses his mother, and his father moves him from Tokyo to the countryside, where the father is preoccupied with his factory duties. All such details overlap with Miyazaki’s on childhood, imbuing the movie with a strong semi-autobiographical essence from the very beginning.



在这部充满瑰丽想象又奇奇怪怪的电影里，再次勾勒出独属于宫崎骏的“异世界”——在一只会说话、长着牙齿的苍鹭的引领下，真人来到仿佛冥界的异世界里，去寻找自己的母亲和搜救失踪的继母。他遇到了一群吞食亡灵的鹈鹕，一支傲慢的鹦鹉军团，一个能驱动火焰的少女，一个白发苍苍寻找继承人的塔主。 6park.com
In this movie filled with magnificent imagination and peculiarities, it once again showcases the uniquely Miyazaki-esque “otherworld”. Guided by a talking, toothy heron, the protagonist enters a world resembling the underworld to search for his mother and rescue his missing stepmother. He encounters a group of cormorants that devour spirits, a proud legion of parrots, a girl who can control flames, and a tower’s master with white hair seeking an heir.



而电影的片名，正是致敬了日本小说家吉野源三郎在1937年发表的同名著书《你想活出怎样的人生》，但电影故事完全由宫崎骏原创。



这本书对宫崎骏童年影响深远，他曾表示：“这本书传达出这样的信念——无论时代如何困难、残酷，都要活得像一个真正的人。” 6park.com
虽然电影的背景和现在相隔八十年，但片中传递的信念却能跨越时空。在任何一个时代，我们为何而活？我们想活出怎样的人生？都是斗志昂扬、振聋发聩的问题，都值得深思和反省。