Text / Xiao Guanping
The story of this cartoon is simple and old-fashioned.
The little boy bullied the ant unreasonably, to accidentally became a villain the size of an ant, his thoughts gradually changed, and he realized that humans and weak animals should live in harmony.
At the beginning of the play, when the boy's huge body and heavy shoes began to step on the weak and numerous ant colony, the shot from the top clearly exaggerated the evil of human beings.
When every viewer who is a member of humanity sees this lens, they are sweating for the ants and expressing concern and sympathy for their fate. At this time, they will not pay attention to the little boy's performance in human life.
When the little boy was bullied by bad classmates everywhere in the human world, the empathy of the audience turned their attention to the little boy and began to pity his fate.
When the human and the ants collided, his eyes turned to the ants again.
It can be seen from this that the audience's standard for the justice party does not lie in the type of species, but in the group most similar to their own destiny.
That is the theme I want to talk about in this article: human beings are weak and humble species.
Lao Tzu elaborated on the importance of "softness" more than two thousand years ago. Human beings are the most soft things, and they can drip water through rocks and overcome rigidity with softness. In many films, we can find that when facing wars, revolutions, natural disasters, plagues and other bloody events, human beings always flee and avoid danger at the beginning. At the last moment, human beings realize the weakness of individual strength. , So they unite, gather little to make more, and merge into a powerful force.
When the initiators of the fascist war pointed the finger at all mankind, relatively weak nations and countries united and formed alliances to resist the enemy together and finally defeated the powerful enemy. This is an important proof that softness overcomes rigidity.
Back to the movie. I feel that in many movies where the protagonist is set to be non-human, animals as small groups are always fighting against powerful and domineering humans, such as "Toy Story", "Insect Crisis", "Finding Nemo", "The Great Fox" Films such as "Dad" all reflect this truth.
And movies that set humans as the righteous side, such as "Jurassic Park", "Martians Play the Earth", "2012", etc., humans have become the weaker side against prehistoric monsters, aliens, or natural disasters.
In short, the party that resists aggression and protects the weak is always just, while the party that attacks, invades, seizes, or destroys other species or countries is unjust.
The reason why mankind defines "what is justice?" This truth that Socrates has not been able to answer throughout his life is because mankind has always been on the weak and humble side in the vast universe, so it uses empathy. Treat all weak, poor, and sympathetic species as good.
If you don't believe it, you can compare human evaluations of jackals, tigers, leopards and chickens, rabbits, deers and sheep.
Revised 2019/9/16 first draft on June 7, 2010
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