Yes, where did the steak come from? A small problem passed the test of "Madagascar"-a cartoon with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan. It can't make a direct answer, so it has to expel the "why" uncle from its own country, and even tries its best to make you imitate the innocent lion ALEX inside, and ignore this simple common sense while eating delicious steaks.
As the king of the forest, the lion doesn't have to think about such stupid questions. The problem is that ALEX is a New York City lion. It never needs to hunt. There are always delicious and juicy fresh steaks delivered to the front, and it has 3 good friends, zebra, rhino, and giraffe. Anyway, there is no shortage of steaks, and ALEX has never realized that its friends can actually be its food. It lived happily and carefree.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and ALEX's happy life was ruined by Zebra's wild thoughts. It and its three good friends may have left the comfortable New York City forever and settled in Madagascar, a small island in Africa. There, ALEX had no steaks. If there is no steak to eat, ALEX will eat its friends. The story of "Madagascar" has developed and developed into a dead end like this: According to Hollywood logic, zebras, hippos, and giraffes will certainly not be eaten by the lion ALEX, and they will eventually call on ALEX to help ALEX from "beastly." Reply to "humanity"; in this way, the carnivore ALEX still has to eat the sliced, beautiful steak, but it seems that Madagascar has no cattle and no steak cook. Do you know how "Madagascar" got out of this dead end? At the end of the film, a few penguins solved the problem-they let ALEX learn to eat fish, a piece of fish sushi.
The narrative without the image may be more helpful to restore the facts. Seeing this, we already understand that in the country of "Madagascar", the "what" aunt has vividly portrayed the friendship between ALEX and its friends with the children, and the "what to do" grandpa has also come up with a clever one. The solution solved the problem of ALEX’s belly. Uncle "Why" was deliberately absent, because the movie really had no way to further question: Where did the steak come from? Was it cut from a live cow that jumped like a zebra, was as naive as a hippopotamus, and wanted to be honest like a giraffe? Why is it wrong to eat steak, fish sushi, zebra, hippopotamus, giraffe, penguin, and lemur?
There is no answer in the film—because the steak and fish sushi are delivered after being killed and processed by others, because zebras, hippos, giraffes, penguins, and lemurs are friends, but cows and fish have no friendship with ALEX. But for children, this is really a terrible truth. If this truth is not hidden or the audience’s attention is deliberately distracted, DreamWorks, which produced "Madagascar", may be sued by angry parents for moral instigation, even though it is true and human nature. The rules of the social game are unchanging truths in politics.
Facts, true colors, rules, and truths are all useless, they have to be covered up with colorful jokes. As Disney’s enemy, DreamWorks’ cartoons have more or less deviant intentions. In Madagascar, ALEX’s struggle between instinct and morality could have produced a deep enough story. Unfortunately, it’s hypocrisy in the middle class. Stopped in front of you. In its country, there is still no place for "why" uncle.
It is hypocrisy if you clearly show the unpleasant facts but try to evade and pretend. Looking at the pieces of steak dancing in ALEX's dream, we laughed with understanding and sympathy, so we in the cinema were simultaneously involved in a kitsch incident surrounding "Madagascar". Hypocrisy and kitsch, of course, cannot produce great fairy tales.
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