Friend: It is a helpless friendship.
I watched the entire cartoon "SpongeBob SquarePants" on the recommendation of a friend a while ago.
"SpongeBob SquarePants" (SpongeBob SquarePants) gave me too many surprises. The whole animation is full of imagination, innocence, black humor and nonsensical. What attracted my attention most was the character setting of Brother Octopus and his relationship with the protagonist Sponge.
SpongeBob is always optimistic, innocent and invincible. He prepared an N-long speech in order to be an inspector for a day. He smashed his hand with a hammer and reached into the crack of the money box to withdraw money. He rescued the jellyfish who were abused by the crab boss to make money. He never doubted him. The friendship with Brother Octopus, he loves work and never asks the owner of Crab for his due rights. He gets up at 3 a.m. every day to prepare for Crab Wong Fort (I collapsed)...
Brother Octopus is always stern and drooping. And eyelids, he reads Dance magazine at work, he draws self-portraits at home, he likes to play the clarinet for self-appreciation, he seems indifferent to most things, he will sprinkle flowers by himself when there is no SpongeBob SquarePants and pie stars. Celebrate, he spends 3 days of vacation in the sun, he is always very unlucky...
Regarding people’s opinion of them, I saw many comments on PPS, saying that brother octopus hates them, and they don’t have anything at all. friendship. I wanted to argue with him, only to find that their age is mainly between 10-14 years old. So that's it.
To talk about this, we have to take a look at the male second octopus brother.
Perhaps because many Chinese are under the red flag, they are accustomed to the inculcation of "good and evil" in Gong's praise of heroes for defeating bad guys, thinking that there is always a "good person" and a "bad person" in a story. And I believe: there are no bad people in fairy tales.
Please look at this scene-Brother Octopus: "Come to toss me so early?" Pai Daxing: "Shall we toss Brother Octopus so early?" It turns out that Brother Octopus is not mean, but wakes up in the morning on weekends. "Brother" has become an unspoken rule among these three neighbors.
SpongeBob is a child, and Brother Octopus is a literary youth. SpongeBob catches jellyfish outdoors, blows blisters, plays house, and walks small snails; octopus paints oil paintings in the house, plays the clarinet, pots the spirit, and meditates. SpongeBob's appearance is always an American march, and the appearance of Brother Octopus is often accompanied by European literary songs.
SpongeBob is lovable, but octopus is annoying.
Brother Octopus once paid homage to his dream in the cemetery. And his dream is enslaved by reality, so he spends his time at the cashier, passive in his attitude towards the world, lonely in his true heart, and avoids the complicated market.
He habitually hides his feelings, but sometimes he is pitiful and feeble. Just as he fell in love with Crab Huangbao and was discovered by SpongeBob after stealing food in the middle of the night, he finally admitted and plunged into the hamburger pile. Watching him slide happily through the food, it makes people cry.
He is playing poorly and cynically, and his droopy eyelids reveal his gothic indifference. And when he occasionally got close to his dreams, all his enthusiasm bloomed with it. He tried to turn SpongeBob SquarePants into a band, and the sadness and pain after the failure was on that face; and when the SpongeBand was carefully prepared and succeeded abnormally, you should look at the unsuspecting octopus expression.
Brother Octopus is real.
If Brother Octopus is an interpretation of the reality of this cartoon, then SpongeBob and his friendship with Brother Octopus is a fairy tale interpretation of the real world.
The director did not allow SpongeBob SquarePants' idealism and realism to confront each other, avoiding falling into the quagmire of relativism. In contrast to SpongeBob’s almost neurotic idealistic innocence, the director did not portray Brother Octopus as a pessimistic and typical realist, moving towards a dualistic absolute; instead, he portrayed him as a passive but dreamy, sophisticated and sophisticated. Childish, romantic, like ordinary helpless people who have been dragged into fairy tales.
It can be said that whether it is a cartoon person living in the current society or a person living in the world of fairy tales, when the individual is alienated from the system, his destiny will be somewhat tragic. And the friendship between SpongeBob SquarePants and Brother Octopus, is it a contract between ideals and reality, or a game between human nature and the system? I have no idea.
I just haven't forgotten these facts:
SpongeBob SquarePants went through ups and downs to deliver food, but was insulted and rejected by customers, and wept tears. So Brother Octopus put Pizza on the man's face.
SpongeBob advertises the existence of Santa Claus to the villagers, and Brother Octopus tells him that Brother Christmas is just a legend. Later, when Santa Claus did not come to Sponge, he was very frustrated, but Brother Octopus comforted Sponge by pretending to be Santa Claus and distributed all the belongings in his home to the villagers.
Brother Octopus mistakenly thought that SpongeBob only had one day to live by accidentally eating the bomb. He met all Sponge’s requirements and spent a happy day with him. At the end of the day, they lie down and watch the sunset together (although Brother Octopus is afraid of the explosion of the sponge. A small wall was built between the two...).
SpongeBob and Octopus are true friends. The friendship between the two of them just triggered the inner struggle and moving of uncle-level audiences like me.
As a successful cartoon that can attract both children and adults, "SpongeBob SquarePants" is the most admirable thing about its obsessive attitude towards life. In an animation with a large audience age span, it does not have the magnificence and majesty of Hayao Miyazaki's works, nor the weird and wretched sword of "Crayon Shin-chan". Do not rely on suffocating mythological plots, and do not need the love of kitsch and older audiences. It just silently interprets the little people around, loving and praising the ordinary and warm life.
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