A good movie has the urge to make a full score. However, putting aside the "primitive man"'s magnificent imagination of "I don't know how many thousand miles it is", two hours after watching the movie, most of the pictures have evaporated from the audience's memory. A non-social audience like me would recommend "very good-looking" to others and add "don't take it too seriously". I have no intention of criticizing this film, although every character in the original "Gollum family" has "prototypes" in my memory (the prototypes are all in "Ice Age", "The Lion King", "Kung Fu Panda" and so on in the animation), but the freshness of the "prehistoric caveman" as the protagonist still proves the sincerity of the new generation of animation screenwriters and special effects production teams towards animated films.
The Primitives was an absolute commercial success, in a way that left Iron Man, Transformers, Avengers, and even my favorite Batman: The Dark Knight behind. behind. Yes, "Batman: The Dark Knight", which has achieved the depth of a literary film in terms of the complexity of human nature, makes modern people feel how easy it is to tend to extremes in the environment in which they live. And the likes of "Iron Man" are gradually relying on the dialectical thinking of "crime and punishment". They understand that special effects are no longer the reason for the audience to pay, but for audiences who "don't want life to be so complicated" and are satisfied with "life is just as good", everyone hopes to find simple and direct in science fiction, animation, superheroes and other movies "positive energy".
Such positive energy can be found in "Ice Age", "Kung Fu Panda", "Madagascar" and other animations, but the taste is too like a chocolate sundae, and you will forget it after eating a cup. "The Primitive" is a glass of freshly squeezed juice. The most different thing is that the main creative team added a well-intentioned ingredient to this juice—probably something like mint. In addition to the gorgeous layering, the taste of the juice has a fresh and childlike aftertaste.
"Mint" is composed of these flavors: the smart "Gai" people can use fire, put on trousers and shoes, they no longer hide in caves like the "Gulu family", they even have dreams— - Ride on the sun and chase tomorrow. After being enlightened by the wisdom of "Gai", the "Gulu family" finally faced the "sun" and finally arrived at "tomorrow".
This refined and refined plot design made the audience, men, women and children, all think at the same level. Although we are three, six, nine, etc., the origin of our gene chain is all blood and blood. No one will criticize the naivety and ignorance of primitive people. Their fear and curiosity about new things are particularly easy to impress modern people - especially reality People with all kinds of stress in life.
When Gai Zaiye led the "Gulu family" to the top of the big tree, promising to show them something good, and finally Gai and Gulu's family stood under the sky and blew out the torches, and the audience in the theater burst out like children. "Wow" exclamation. The screen is full of dizzying stars, and the girl "Eve" said, "The sky is full of sun."
Before, Gulu's family just took Guy's saying "the sky is full of sun" as a story, and the audience listened to it. Same thing. And when the "starry sky" that had long since disappeared from the lives of urbanites appeared, my throat was sore when I heard the sigh of "Eve".
The intensive jokes and crazy imagination of "The Primal Man" made a young man and woman next to my seat stomp their feet and laugh wildly. It's all the sun" and the bridge section where everyone chases the sun to "tomorrow" at the end makes them sleepwalk-like tranquility. It's not just them, the entire audience, even the most noise-making kids, laughed and laughed together for 98 minutes.
After reading "The Primal Man", if a reporter interviews you: "Do you believe that the sky is full of sun?" Maybe you are unwilling to answer, maybe you are decisive, but "the sky is full of sun" is already stuck in your mind , which is where The Primitives is great.
Published in Taizhou Daily on April 26, 2013
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