However, "Animal Farm" is not destined for children. They cannot understand the political irony and metaphors in it, and they cannot understand the class struggle that Marxism often talks about. However, this animation is wrapping the French impressionist paintings. Under the coat, he uses a very childlike way to depict the long-term estrangement between the two unequal classes-the "bear" society on the ground and the "rat" society on the ground. Finally, it uses French romanticism and rationalism to express the friendship and love of bears and mice, expressing equality, freedom, and fraternity just like the French flag. The feeling of watching the whole movie is warm and healing.
This story is very simple, but it has a complete and complex core. In the bear world, there is a dogma of "rats crossing the street and everyone shouting to fight", but since childhood, adults have told their children the story of the rat fairy taking teeth. In the world of mice, there is a dogma that "bears are regarded as the most evil creatures". From kindergarten grandmothers have told stories about big bears eating small mice. And the grandmother appeared completely as a literati and enlightenment tool of a rat government (just like a North Korean teacher taught children that Americans are enemies of imperialism (laughs!)). However, the rat society needs the support of the bear’s teeth, as if for an individual rat In other words, the most important right in life is the right to speech. Without good teeth, you can't even speak, which is very bad for mice. Therefore, these two classes have contradictions with each other, but their interests are related to each other, and they have a tendency to merge. In fact, the following story is inevitable using the line of thinking in high school history textbooks.
Next comes the character, Ai Texiong is a musician, too poor to eat. He is poor because of his laziness and because the bear society is not perfect. This society is an unequal society. Ai Te Xiong is lonely and ignored in this society, so he needs to find the spiritual comfort that can get happiness. Sai Na Shu is a painter, intoxicated with the life of painting bears every day, she is also poor, because she does not like the work of collecting teeth, this society is also problematic, that is, mice do not have the freedom to choose, she can not choose what she wants to pursue For his life, he also needs to find spiritual comfort. Therefore, the emotion between these two people is completely to meet their spiritual needs. This transformative fuse event does not have the attribute of focusing on the interests of the country and the collective interests of society. This way of expression is very people-oriented.
The plot that followed was quite dramatic. The bear was hungry, looking for food, and found a white and fat mouse in the trash can that could only be used as a thing. This was the first time they met. Next, a contractual mutual help plunged them into deeper illegal crimes, triggering a social pursuit of the two societies. They also became "male and female thieves" like Bonnie and Clyde. In this process, the two slowly transformed their emotions for the purpose of contractual interests into a love that is blessed and difficult to share. They comforted each other and agreed with each other. Of course, this process is long, because they will feel the fear brought about by the restrictions of social dogma.
In the end, they were both arrested, but the bear was arrested by the mouse, and the mouse was arrested by the bear. However, the court of the rat society is located underground of the court of the bear society, and the use of contrast reveals the hypocrisy of the two societies at the same time. Ai Texiong asked the little mice: "Do I make you feel scared?" The little mice shook their heads, and the royal literati grandmother gave an order, and the little mice screamed like a chorus. At the same time, Sina Rat asked the mother bears: "Am I making you feel scared?" Mother Bear’s reaction was the same as that of the little mouse before. At first, she hesitated, but her husband started to scream. Call. This raises a very interesting social proposition. Each of us has an interpretation and judgment of things. We will express our positions and attitudes based on our experience and our cognition of public morality. However, as a member of society, In order to prove our identity in society, our thoughts are often poisoned by social dogma and become hypocritical. As a member of society, we are not completely free individuals.
Suddenly the court of the rat society caught fire, which also caused the court of the bear society to catch fire. People all escaped from the court. Only the judges who were swallowed by flames and demonized by law and authority and the two poor defendants stayed there. In the courts, we will find that the real scary thing in the two societies is not the mouse or the bear. The real scary thing is the inequality and unfreedom under authority. Sai Na Rat removed the scale curtain behind the judge, which represented justice, and saved the judge. But Ai Te Xiong was still wearing handcuffs that restricted freedom and rescued the judge from the fire. The banner of inequality and unfreedom seems to be gloriously torn off.
However, the ending is very simple and implicit. The final ending does not highlight a major leap in the historical process. It returns to the feeling itself. Aite and Senna are hugging each other tightly against a solid color background. We don’t know who is there. What other animals think, we only know that they are very happy.
Throughout the film, I want to share with you a concept called social symbiosis:
social symbiosis presupposes that everyone is equal, and everyone is born equal. Regardless of all biological and social differences such as belief, class, gender, occupation, age, etc., as long as you respect the civil rights of others, then you also have the same civil rights. People have different interests, groups have different interests, and classes have different interests. Of course there are conflicts and competitions, but conflicts and competitions are not meant to eliminate each other, but are based on symbiosis.
This theory is so similar to the idea conveyed by this movie. Although this movie is just a symbiosis of two small characters, it left a very open ending. We can also imagine the symbiosis between the two societies as a big society. And a more just law can stand on top of the big society to protect the fairness and freedom of the big society.
Don't forget, this is a cartoon, although the core is complex and insightful. But we'd better look at this great hand-drawn animation from a child's perspective, for the innocence and the touch.
I wish you all a happy Children's Day.
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