It's just that it's a funny and warm handmade clay animation movie, but my eyes are sore after watching it, not only because of some warm scenes in it, but also because some clips of the movie remind me of the ideal and the reality. We are struggling in the cracks.
(1) Stomach and Dreams
We need dreams to make ourselves different, but we also need the cooperation of our stomachs to realize our difference.
The first thing in the film that reminds the lambs of their owners is their hungry, growling stomachs. Without the control of the master, life is free, but it also means the loss of a stable source of food. So the physical response directly catalyzes the psychological nostalgia. Just like us in real life, everyone longs for all kinds of wonderful journeys in the dream journey, but few people actually act. Because in this process, we must consider a practical problem, that is, no matter how beautiful a dream is, it cannot be quickly and directly transformed into food to fill the stomach.
Sometimes I feel that the distance between ideal and reality is a stomach. In daily life, the most common reason we hear about not being brave enough to chase dreams is the fear of losing the bread in our hands. Because when you are really hungry, the bright but ethereal dream is really not as real as a steamed bun in your hand. I have seen a movie called "The Wilderness Survival". In order to feel the different scenery of life, the protagonist in it abandons everything and leaves the civilized society, wanders in various uninhabited places, and eventually dies of starvation. Maybe the search made him feel like it was worth dying for. But how many people can reach that realm in thought? Abandoning everything to chase dreams is crazy and unrealistic.
Life is a struggle to make your life come alive. Only by chasing our dreams can we give our lives a different splendor. No one wants and should not give up their dreams, but the issue of food and clothing is indeed something that people must consider when chasing their ideal life. Although living is not just to eat, but to eat is to have the strength to live better. Dreams need persistence, and eventually they will shine. The satisfaction of the stomach can make you maintain a high-spirited attitude on the journey of chasing dreams. So instead of struggling with whether or not to chase dreams, we might as well think seriously about how to achieve harmony between our stomachs and dreams.
(2) Impulses and plans
If you want to change your existing life, you must have a plan (including short-term and long-term plans) in addition to short-term impulses. Otherwise, you will not only fail to achieve the preset purpose, but may also destroy the original life.
The daily routine life makes the lambs annoyed, so a holiday poster easily evokes Shaun the sheep's rebellious psychology and wants to escape from the monotonous life. It persuaded its companions and made a plan how to avoid its master. But when planning, Sean and his companions forgot one important thing, that is, how to make the hard-won freedom that they gained continue after the short-term plan is successful. That is, they have no long-term plans.
The world is so big, who doesn't want to see it? It's so exciting outside, who wants to be stuck in the little circle of their own repetitive life? Who of us who have been too disciplined in real life has no urge to escape? It's just that despite so many impulses, we still see very little action, or very failed action. There are many impulses and few actions, because of courage, lack of courage to escape from the boring but comfortable life. There are many impulses, many actions, and many failures. It is because they are too carried away by impulses, and they lose the ability to think seriously when their blood is boiling, so although they work hard, they still make themselves embarrassed.
If life feels boring to you, change it. After all, life is only once, there is no reason not to find more wonderful for yourself. Just hope you have a plan before you change, when you're ignited with passion. It doesn't have to be very detailed, but you must know what is facing you, what actions you should take, and where you are going. Because it's easy to destroy the life you already have, but the key is how you rebuild the life you want in place. If it’s just because you were stimulated for a while and you only have a blind impulse, then I advise you to post on Weibo, a circle of friends, to complain about the boring life, and don’t easily embark on the path of change, otherwise you will really lose miserably. In the end, even ordinary life may not be enough.
(3) The freedom that is bound
can be controlled, and that is the long-lasting and comfortable freedom.
The lambs are tired of the monotonous life repeated every day and want a free life, so they start various actions. Assuming that there is no subsequent destruction by the sheepdog, what will the lambs wait for them after they have a lot of fun at the owner's house? It should be the boredom left after bingeing on all kinds of novelties and the panic of excessive freedom. Just like in reality, we have been complaining that we are bound by reality and live unhappily. We sing freedom to a sacred height. It seems that with freedom, our life will shine brightly from now on. But is this really the case? Is this freedom really what we want? And unrestrained, without any restraint, is this freedom?
Just like a kite needs a string to fly higher, the freedom of being bound is the freedom that makes us truly happy. Unconstrained freedom, because of the lack of degrees, it is easy to make people panic, and they do not know where to go. Different people have different definitions of freedom, but it definitely does not mean that you can do whatever you want. The freedom we so often extol, in my opinion, should be something that gives us an opportunity to pursue what we want without restraint, and that we can afford to pay for it. True freedom is not giving a chance to indulge, but giving a better chance to fulfill oneself. It can help us find a more mature self, so as to better promote the progress of the social wheel in the historical process. No matter how big or small this progress is, as long as it is moving forward, it is fine. The roles and responsibilities given to us by society are the driving force for our growth, the thread that leads us, pulling us from time to time, so that we will not get lost in the excessive pursuit of ourselves. If we feel tired, we can choose to take a break from life for a while, but we can't escape from life forever unless you want to keep yourself in a state of stagnation. Remember, freedom is not indulgence, but fulfillment.
Regarding the film, there are too many clips that easily trigger our feelings as adults. For example, on the day of stray animal adoption, all kinds of animals do their best to win the favor of the adopters, just like in reality we are constantly struggling, falling and getting up again, tasting the most sad things in life in the alternation of sweat and tears Taste, just to win a smile in life. Another example is the stray animal caretaker Trampell's first appearance in the film. When he understands that the applause of the street people is for the star instead of him, the kind of loneliness on his face is very similar to the reality of wanting to be affirmed but not to him. But we have been ignored. Love it or not, we all put our time and energy into the job at hand, and we hope that someone can see our seriousness and give the necessary affirmation. Life is not easy and everyone needs encouragement. It's just that more often we can only hear our own cheers for ourselves.
In fairy tales, all misunderstandings will be resolved in the end. Good people will eventually have good results, and bad people will not escape retribution. No matter how twists and turns the process is, they will finally reap a happy ending. But the screen is the screen after all. There are not so many good things in real life. Many times we can only spend our whole life in a misplaced life. As for how we finish our lives in this dislocation, it depends on each person's choice and fortune.
Because life doesn't always go as planned, we need the happy ending of the movie to escape briefly to gain the strength to hold on to our beliefs. Drinking too much chicken soup for the soul is easy to get angry, but the occasional sketch is still good for physical and mental health. For me, fairy tales are like a heart-warming bowl of chicken soup, reminding me that no matter what happens in real life, I have to hold on to hope until the end. As a children's film, "Shaun the Sheep" is undoubtedly a success, with friendship, growth and family affection, as well as various jokes. But even an adult might as well watch it, maybe in a certain scene in the movie, you can see your own shadow and have a strong resonance.
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