No hide, live

Kaia 2022-04-21 09:01:35

Before this movie, I probably had a hard time imagining a movie that would make me laugh until my stomach hurts and then burst into tears. Likewise, I didn't expect a 90-minute cartoon to be so richly expressed in such a simple story.

parent-daughter relationship. One is a father who sticks to the rules and is busy protecting the family all day long, and is of course the pillar of the family; the other is a daughter who is full of curiosity and wants to find out. Dad likes to use his stories to tell his daughter what to do and what not to do. My daughter is tired of the life of nothing is fun. If she hides in a hole all day to live, why should she live? Before the father finally throws the daughter over the cliff, the daughter says I want to fix this, but there is no time. Too typical father-daughter relationship, no love? Yes, but there are still many mutual misunderstandings. One wants to be escorted, the other wants freedom and a different life. After all, it is an animation. There will always be an animation with a happy ending. The daughter still has the opportunity to say "I love you too" to the father, and the father has understood his daughter throughout the journey. But when will this moment be ushered in in real life?

Grug and Guy, on the one hand, are the classic relationship between husband and son-in-law (the father doesn't want his daughter to be taken away by another person), and on the other hand, there is a conflict between old and new ideas. The clash of the two ways of the caveman and the new human is like the clash of the lifestyles of two generations in real life. The Grug family, Grug is the most stubborn. When he faced the new things Guy brought, his first reaction was strong resistance, and even after everyone else accepted Guy, Grug still insisted on his own way. Behind this, there are deep-rooted concepts at work, and because Grug himself realizes that his own set is not good, he is unwilling to face it. The changes in the environment and the new methods made Grug's original beliefs collapse in a short period of time, and the most powerful person in the family suddenly became useless, so Grug used various ideas to prove that he was still very powerful. Just like in our family, my dad always asks me questions about computers and smartphones because of his hard face. Even if he asks, he is very serious. In contrast, my mother is much more receptive to new things, and asks if she doesn't know. The smartphone is much smoother than my father's, and it has more functions. Maybe the older generation will have a hurdle in their hearts when they are surpassed by the new generation, and now that they are surrounded by various electronic products, this hurdle may come earlier. It took a long time for my father to recognize that I can indeed solve many problems in my own way, and this belief also needs to be accumulated slowly.

Strong Eep and thin Guy, two stages in human evolution. "(p21) There are two ways to help humans overcome a brutal environment: get stronger or get smarter. Humans choose the latter.... (p25) Humans give up stability and don't try to be pointless about change Rebellion, not caring about the consistency of a particular habitat, because such consistency is not an option, and humans must adapt to change itself." (Leaving the Brain Free, John Medina)

The Grug family is really in line with the family I have learned from American film and television dramas, typical personality, classic combination, knowing smile. The theme is also super main theme: no hide, live, follow light, find tomorrow. The belt monkey is similar to the momo in "Madagascar": cute! Well, all kinds of primitive animals are a little weird and a little ugly. The idea of ​​"airplane" and "photography" is amazing! I am in awe of the creativity of the creators! This film really crushed the two years of Pixar and Disney films. Scanning the films that DreamWorks has released in the past two years, they are fierce and king!






Not to be mediocre, not just to live.


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The Croods quotes

  • Gran: What's a *pet*?

    Guy: It's an animal you don't eat.

    Gran: We call those *children*.

  • Guy: [sees Eep watching Grug and Thunk hunt] You look tense.

    Eep: [in denial] I'm not tense