Adult Aesthetics in the last century: Belladonna of Sadness

We have all heard or read the story of Joan of Arc. Although she was regarded as a religious heresy in her lifetime and was finally executed by fire, she was rebelled under the lobby of the mother of Jeanne of Arc. After washing up her grievances, she was regarded as a saint, and even as a national hero by many French. In western classical music, many composers have created various kinds of praise music in her name; in addition, she has also been canvassed as a national hero by the mother of Joan of Arc. There are many movies with her as the leading role, this time to introduce the erotic animation "Belladonna of Sadness", will be fantastic and bold style, analysis of the other side of Jeanne of Arc.

The story begins in the medieval French countryside where the church and the landlord are in power. Jenny and his lover are full in love. The landlord asks Jenny to offer sacrifices in order to perform Secret Religious ceremonies, and then they are gang rape by the landlord's soldiers. They begin to lead a sad life. After that, life becomes more and more difficult. Jenny's lover can't pay the landlord's rent and is cut off his arm and self-abandonment. Jenny began to deny the existence of God and contact with the devil in poverty and loneliness. The devil began to lure Jenny in sexually, and changed the landlord for benefits and status. 

In 1970, Tezuka Osamu's animation production team "Worm Production" of "Animerama", one of which, "Belladonna of Sadness", was the best work of artistic achievement. Although the film has a strong experimental nature, the painting style is fantastic. At that time, because of its bold scale, involving a large number of erotic and sexual descriptions, it was widely discussed.

"Belladonna of Sadness" is based on the French historian's research book "La Sorcière", based on the story of Jeanne of Arc, described in the medieval France, Jenny married a simple farmer, but Because of poverty, she dedicated her first night to the lord, but when the conflict became more and more fierce, Jude traded with the devil in desperation. Although this made her and her boyfriend's life better, it also made her gradually go to the devil. The road of the "Witches"...

"Belladonna of Sadness" takes static painting as the theme of expression, and presents the psychological and external environment changes of the protagonist Joan De in a unique, stacked, fantastic and surreal way. The film is interspersed with realistic and fantastic scenes, and perfectly and thoroughly penetrates the concept of animation interpretation, even overrides the current commercial animation film. It is extremely rare in today's commercial animation. See the way of performance.

Watercolor is often used to shape and color the picture on paper. In addition, the dynamic part of the picture will also use superb skills to draw. The film presentation is presented by the right-to-left translation of the pendulum mirror technique. There are quite a number of still pictures in the film. Besides the cooperation between the picture and the shooting, the dialogue has also been carefully calculated, which makes people admire the actor's dubbing ability.