0. The introduction is the story of a young warrior leading a dog to defeat a demon lord who hates dogs.
1. On the face of it, this is a modern version of the legend in the introduction. Atari is a young samurai, and Mayor Kobayashi represents evil. Even under the siege of evil forces, the male protagonist still leads his friends to defeat evil on behalf of justice, and live a happy life since then.
2. The director is not so simple, people should not believe "happily ever after".
3. In fact, at the last moment, if Mayor Kobayashi didn't find out in his conscience, it could be easily settled with a few students coming to the stage to make noise. But his conscience has awakened and he has overcome the desire for power. In this sense, Mayor Kobayashi (his conscience?) is the young hero in the story.
4. So is Atari pure good? Not necessarily, you can see the similarities between him and the mayor: 1) desire for others to obey him (from now on you are all my dogs, and the tone of commanding Chief to pick up things for the first time), 2) Identification with authoritarian rule (a group of dog lovers making strict laws is like a child's play), 3) using technology to achieve personal goals (is the mechanical dog version of sports really sports, the core of the mechanical dog is covered with the skeleton skin of sports) ? Quite chilling) Who can guarantee that In 30 years Atari will not grow into another Kobayashi mayor? Personally, under the immersion of power, this transformation is almost inevitable.
5. Nor does it disbelieve in the ability of the new forces to overturn the old order. Rather, it means that the time for blood boiling is short, and the time for soaking in power is long. Fairy tales are often short-lived, and a good shelf life is always short.
6. It is ironic to say that the top-ranked opposition forces, from resisting the high-pressure rule, finally became the high-pressure rule themselves. Looking at their performance, there is really no discomfort.
6.5 Atari playing the slide is also interesting. He is not tall enough to go to the slide. It is a dangerous act (the samurai with a sword has a fierce expression, which symbolizes the bottom line), but he went anyway, went up one step, looked at the dog, and walked again Going up the stairs, Chief threatened that I'm not a house dog and I won't wait if you go. But Atari couldn't resist the temptation of the big toy, and Chief left. This passage can be understood as the ruler abusing his power and carefully testing the reaction of the ruled before he is fully mature. Chief walked decisively, ditching the rule-breaking Atari, but couldn't help but walk back in the end. Thought Question: Next time, will Atari follow the rules and be a good boy?
7. Therefore, we cannot be completely brainwashed by fairy tales. The world is not divided into good people and bad people. Everyone has good and bad thoughts in their hearts, and they fight with each other endlessly. Perhaps designing rules to limit the beast within is the sensible choice.
8. From the beginning of authoritarianism, the seeds of resistance grow, to overthrow the old order, and to the end of the formation of a new order, in fact, only the object of support/oppression has changed, and the rest has not changed in essence.
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