Analysis of "Baby Bao"

Tremayne 2022-04-19 09:03:16

This is a story about a Chinese family. The opening of the relaxed music, the skillful skill of making steamed buns, and the warm-colored pictures determine the story in a warm Chinese family. When the mother is lying by the window alone, the picture freezes a little, and the cool background makes the housewife look lonely. When Bao Bao was "alive", his mother held him in his hands. We also saw the whole picture of Bao Bao from her main perspective, and the blurred background aggravated the mother's sense of age. The film unfolds with the rhythm of the music. Under the relaxed music, it is the life of the mother and Bao Bao. The mother is wearing a floral old man's shirt, and the baby is always by his side no matter what he does. The mother's smiling expression is in great contrast to the previous one. But when the rhythm of the music softens, so does the story. When the mother took the baby Bao who was playing football back to her side, the actions of sliding shovel and flying were beyond our cognition and were actions that mothers should not do at this age. This exaggerated way of expression shows the mother's possessiveness towards the baby. When the music weakened, the relationship between the two officially entered its lowest point. The mother, who was waiting for the big meal, was in the warm color background, but Bao Bao walked from the mother into the darkness outside the door. This was his dissatisfaction with his mother's excessive possessiveness and excessive warmth. After the mother ate the baby in one bite, the music stopped completely, the picture became dark, and a beam of light hit the crying mother, and the mother's long-standing emotions broke out. The son outside the door walked in from the light, and the mother hid in the dark room and cried. It was the son who tried to enter the lonely heart of the mother. At this time, the shadow of the son hitting the wall is exactly what the baby looks like when he grows up. Everything before that was a mother's fantasy. Because she missed it too much, she transformed into Bao Baobao. When the mother walks from the dark place to her son, the warm light shines on the two of them, which symbolizes that the mother is out of loneliness, and the music starts again. Accompanied by the soothing music, the family wrapped the buns happily, and the film also came to an end.

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  • Pedro 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    It's fine, but I don't like the story. What does it mean to eat steamed buns, I tend to think that all this is the dream of an empty-nest mother. I don't think empty nesters can put all the pressure on children. They don't have their own personal interests and hobbies in their own world, and no one can make them happy.

  • Coby 2022-04-14 09:01:06

    Because of the dream of eating the child, the mother realizes the subconscious attack and control of the child. The evil in the subconscious is not the evil that really happens, and in any intimate relationship there are attacks and hurts lurking. People should fully understand their own complexity and accept it. Instead of blindly rejecting things that you are afraid to admit and unwilling to face. Those who gave this film a low score, I can only say that they completely misunderstood the sincerity of a creator. The creator obviously does not agree with this suffocating mother, but does not stand on her opposite to criticize her. This angle is actually difficult to grasp.

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