Although the tone of the film is a bit old-fashioned: a young man with weak strength and disability, a predecessor as a signpost, a beautiful girl and a weak to violent villain; but the meaning behind the film is still worth thinking about.
With the development of the current society, people start to ask for benefits in order to seek benefits. There is a big difference between humans and all other animals in the world: animals ask for what they need, while humans ask for what they need, what they don’t need, and what they need for future generations. The trees were extinct because of the greed of the old Once-ler. Because human beings are blinded by their immediate interests, they have forgotten their responsibilities to nature, their commitment to protect nature, their gratitude, and everything. The saying that there is no killing without buying or selling is right in the end. Human progress does require economic development, but the pace of development has fallen on the bones of nature and animals.
Those bad public service advertisements will make everyone a little bored, but maybe using such an innocent film to tell the truth will make everyone accept it.
The turning point of the story all fell on the word "care". Like Lorax said: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Without the efforts of the hero, the person in the story may still be living in that illusion. If there is no film like The Lorax that makes us realize our fault, nothing will change.
If people like Ted don’t care and work hard to change our environment, maybe our next generation will live in a world without trees.
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