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Vivianne 2022-04-20 09:01:44
After reading the comments of other bean friends, some of them just stay at the general level, entangled in some small details of the animation, and I personally think that those problems are not harmful at all. The plot of the cartoon is compact, and although the atmosphere and the development of the plot are mainly based on weird and fantasy, some cheerful episodes that appear from time to time also further adjust the atmosphere of the cartoon. What impresses me the most is the theme behind this cartoon. Norman is lucky, he has always been a freak existence in the eyes of others, but his friends and relatives have always stood by his side despite a lot of confusion about him. He and the same age as him are defined as The little girl of the evil witch is luckier than him, but the phenomenon of "the tyranny of the majority" and "the mainstream is the truth" reflected in the cartoon makes me shudder. Adults who think that the mainstream is the truth and are normal, regard the little girl who is different from ordinary people who can communicate with ghosts and ghosts as a demon and classify her as "abnormal", and finally hang her. This phenomenon of the majority targeting the minority and holding the "truth" and the "mainstream" to carry out "just trial" against the minority has existed since ancient times and has existed from the outside to the inside. For example, in the past under the dark and cruel rule of the Pope In Europe, the philosopher Bruno was burned by the Pope for supporting the "heretic" Copernicus's heliocentric theory. Another example is now often seen, "autistic" children receive formal schooling with other normal children and are killed by other children and their colleagues. The parents' rejection and opposition eventually resulted in "expulsion" because of their "abnormality". There are many more such phenomena, but the thinking it brings to people has not stopped. Although this is just a cartoon, the social reality that is implied by it actually exists, so I think it is "mainstream". Can we be more tolerant and understanding of people or things that seem to be "heretic"?
Extended Reading
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Perry Babcock: This is where it stops! It's one thing being a mental case in front of your family, but not the whole freaking town! There's not gonna be any more talking to ghosts, or grandmas, or, or... what is it now?
Sandra Babcock: I think it's trees.
Perry Babcock: You're grounded! You hear me?
Norman Babcock: This is ridiculous. I wish everyone could see what I see! I didn't ask to be born this way!
Perry Babcock: [Perry mutters as he slams his door shut] Funny, neither did we.
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Sheriff Hooper: What do you think you're doing firing at civilians? That is for the police to do