As a child I had this question: "Why don't all the fish try their best to get back into the sea like Nemo?"
Now I think so because Nemo is not a fish, he is an intelligent character. Of course, it is not only because it is wise, but the main reason is that life in the sea is happier. If I was happy to go to school every day when I was young, and play happily every day, and one day someone put me in a cage, I would also consider breaking out of prison.
—But what if I don’t know if life at sea is happy?
This is the question that the animation plot of "The Promised Neverland" brings to me.
Disney has instilled in me the belief that "everything in the world yearns for freedom" since I was a child, but when I think about it carefully, these are basically based on "freedom brings happiness". When freedom is guaranteed to bring me happiness, freedom is worth the risk of death. After all, if you look at consciousness as the criterion of a person's survival, "I" really only have one chance to live, and sitting and waiting for death is not a good choice.
However, in many cases this is not the case. As every child who decides to run away is troubled, running away brings freedom at the same time as other, more cruel problems swarm. When they are faced with the problem of food and clothing, only a very small number of children can find ways to become independent in this situation.
This is the case in "The Promised Neverland". If the life after getting out of prison is to starve and eat every day and face death at any time, what will people choose? Obviously in this work, the author does not take this contradiction to the extreme, because the children are under pressure to "die by the age of 12", and escape seems to be a natural decision. This makes Isabella's theory of "living to death in joy" a bit untenable. After all, given that the natural human lifespan is apparently much more than 12 years, even if the odds of happiness/unfortunate are 1 to 1 off the farm, living a few more 12 years is still totally worth the risk. Especially for Norman and Ray, fighting to the death and waiting to die have no comparative value at all.
But what if everyone had a chance to live to death on the farm? Will anyone escape?
I think most people will choose to stay, even if they are enslaved by ghosts - some people may think that this is spineless behavior, but if you put yourself in the shoes, this seems to be the best choice for everyone.
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