I saw in the comments that someone said that they took children to watch, and then I thought of such a question, should children watch such cartoons. It is emphasized that this is a discussion in China. The first half of the film itself is a bit gray, with divorced families, alcoholic mothers, lonely and depressed children, and orphanages full of autistic and surly children. There are even somewhat painful themes, which are almost impossible in Chinese cartoons for children.
Simon's parents took drugs and abandoned him, Ika accidentally killed his alcoholic mother, Ahmed was clearly an immigrant (judging by the color of his skin), and his father went to jail for robbing his child for a pair of sneakers, Alice is sexually assaulted by her father ("The Disgusting Thing"). Camille witnesses her mother kill her father and then commits suicide... These black-filled establishments support a world of innocent children. That's actually the beauty of this movie. Perhaps from the standpoint of some Chinese parents, keeping their children away from these gray things is for the so-called "protection of children". But in fact this behavior is more of exposing the child to future dangers, the role of the examples is not just to tell the child that drug use is dangerous, all these examples are to put the child in a complete experience To feel the love, hate, gain and loss of life, isn't this the theme of life? The film's starting system is so dark, but in the film, the child's innocence is upheld, leading to a perfect solution, but this perfection does not seem to cover up the film's dark system, which is actually a quite perfect personal philosophy educate. Life may be hard, but there is hope.
Chinese children have hardly been educated in such a personal philosophy. From their parents' generation, they may be able to talk about the views of Schopenhauer, Kant, and Plato, but their personal philosophy is missing. The fact of the matter is that they will tell the next generation: don't bring philosophy into your life, it will go mad. Philosophers are such a madman.
But the fact is, what should be experienced is still to be experienced. I have seen too many people who lack a personal philosophy, or are arrogant, or vulnerable, and under the direction of a high degree of empiricism, they can say anything they don't understand. "I don't understand", he said that he was so at ease, how embarrassed! Philosophy must be substituted into personal experience. Only in this way can it not be a kind of knowledge on paper, but can become the wisdom of life. It is common for young people in their twenties and thirties to lack a personal philosophy in China. What is your personal philosophy? It seems that everyone understands it as a shallow view of inspiration.
The zucchini in the film, Camille is just a nine- or ten-year-old child. The philosophy and love they talk about are so innocent and simple, as well as the stalk of "chicken will explode". Viewed as a science, they will use all kinds of cute words, words you can't think of to explore and discuss, but they are still serious, too cute.
I seem to have heard such a saying before that the real French began to disappear after the 1970s, and France was increasingly integrated into the highly empiricist and behavioral model represented by the United States, becoming the most unfortunate victim of the 20th century. In a fully consumerized context, the French are gone. From the second half of the 19th century to before the 1970s, French culture reached its peak in the worldwide influence. In the early 20th century, people with a little cultural background were talking about Proust, Bataille and Breton, Camus and Sartre. In the 1960s, Strauss, Barthes, Lacan and others once again set off a wave of structuralism, which brought a still breathtaking linguistic turn to the humanities. Deconstruction, the study of postmodern context, and any kind of fringe theory today also have no trace of the French: there are a lot of French scholars such as Foucault and Baudrillard. Isn't it said that the material foundation determines the superstructure. In the Second World War, the whole territory of France was occupied, and it was almost crippled into a "second-rate country". The excellent tradition of philosophical education makes France still cultivate first-class citizens and French people with absolute speculative ability even if France is reduced to a second-class country. This is not how to kneel and lick Europe. French philosophy education is not only far superior to China without philosophy education, but also far superior to other European cultural powers such as Britain and Germany. If the German spirit is a "craftsman spirit", then the French obviously have a "scholar spirit". The French have extraordinary enthusiasm for establishing a discipline and a discourse system of an academic mechanism. They think that philosophy (academic) is almost a personal experience. Let's go to the books of the so-called "madmen". Whether Derrida, Lacan, Breton's works are full of their own discourse system, they The feeling of each word comes from oneself, and knowledge comes from one's own experience, which is why we can no longer continue to show "Pleasant Goat" to Chinese people.
When people are young, they should not reject philosophy and love, at least this is not something that can make you feel at ease.
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