This film is suitable for young parents to watch with their children. Not that the film is a purely entertaining family adventure movie. On the contrary, there is a deep meaning behind the seemingly simple storyline - home, love and responsibility. If it is a family orientation, this film is perfect.
The director first used a large-scale cat that was so cute that it was even a little bit two to attract the audience's attention. (Many viewers who like meow stars will never let this movie go.) The encounter with the little leopard Duma through the "mischief" of the little boy Zane and his son leads us step by step to the main body of the story.
Like many kids and animal movies. The kind-hearted little boy Zane also plays a symbolic role in this film as a friend of animals. The difference is that Zane's sense of responsibility beyond his age and his "superhuman" survival skills keep the character from being monotonous and boring.
Maybe many viewers have mixed opinions on this, thinking that the character design is exaggerated. How can a child know so much? This is precisely the difference between Chinese and Western education. Compared with the test-oriented education that is endorsed by death, the West pays more attention to practical exercises. For example, in the film, the father and the child work together in the field. Under the same trip abroad, the child can learn more through his own thinking and judgment and communication with the father. This is a thousand times stronger than giving him great truths. This is why it is often said that "parents are their children's best teachers".
Father's share in this film is not much, but it is a hidden theme. Zane's "parent-child game" with his father didn't last long. When Zane and his parents disagreed over Duma's fate, Zane's father died. But Zane didn't devote much time to crying, he took Duma's business more seriously. Because he knew what would happen to his cute little leopard, Duma, without the protection of the farm and his parents.
When he thinks about this, it is also the role of changing from a friend to a protector. The story behind is not difficult to guess. The brave young man took his cat friend on a journey back to nature.
This seemingly self-indulgent move is actually a metaphor. When a child grows to a certain stage, he will definitely put the adventure plan and some crazy ideas in his head into action. That's not necessarily a mistake, everyone has to go through such a seemingly absurd stage.
During the trip, Zane and Duma met Rip, who was also cruising in the desert, an African brother with a fierce face from the beginning. Through Rip's actions and words, it is not difficult to see that this is a guy who is obsessed with money. In particular, Duma has always been vigilant against him, always staring at him with vicious eyes. Every time Rip talks to Zane, he can see the negative impact of social environment on people: for example, he suggested to Zane: "Why not sell your big cat? It won't last long here. He can change a house, no, a lot of houses. He can also change a good car with a DVD."
Zane didn't waver, he answered Rip seriously: "Friends can't be sold."
If in life we Also stick to this belief, maybe our life will be different. Many things are not as complicated and difficult as we imagine, but we lack the courage and perseverance to persevere.
After that, Rip's lust for profit triggered a scene in the diamond mine. It was also a turning point. Zane dug out Rip's head and arm, leaving the tools to the miser who fell into the eyes of money. Zane was very handsome and said harshly: You have been scaring us, the purpose is to make us follow you. You want to take me to the police for a bounty and buy Duma!
It seems to me that Zane is so angry not only from a victim's point of view, but also from the disappointment of having a friend betray him. Zane didn't show his distrust of him at first, and kept giving Rip a chance. Although the mercenary black brother is not worthy of our sympathy, he still has some merits. As a result, the other party didn't even want his life for the money, and Zane was completely disappointed with him.
Zane saved him, but refused to get him all out, driven by kindness and morality: I give you the right to live, but you must know what people live for.
After parting ways with Rip, one man and one leopard once again set out on a journey to the west. In the face of nature, any life is small and fragile, and no one knows what will happen in the next second. Zane fell into a trap. After all, a boy's abilities are limited, and he can't always be at the edge. Zane opened his eyes, and what appeared in front of him was the Rip who almost sold himself and Duma.
As if life were a prank: Rip's confession and transformation once again teach us that human nature is kind.
Rip: "I also had a big dream, leaving my wife and children and leaving the village to the city... When you get out of prison, you never want to go back there." The cruelty of reality can easily make people feel Forget the original purpose and persistence. We are like a quagmire of the mind, blinded by material and illusory appearances. When you fall into these traps, when you want to climb up, can you meet a Rip?
Forced by physiological needs, the two work together to direct a good show that scares the tourists away from the camp. On the boat, Zane gives Rip the paper money, because money is the foundation of a family's life as a father. Unexpectedly, Rip, who survived the disaster, found many broken diamonds in that small disaster. There are always many unexpected things in life, but if there is no Zane, what is the value of those diamonds? The same is true for the latter two who set the banknotes on fire to drive away the lions. In the face of life, all material things are secondary, and as long as people live, there are infinite possibilities.
The rebirth of Rip's mind has pushed the film to the second half. The conversation between Zane and Rip in the cave even pointed out the key word - change.
"They leave when they're ready, they won't wait until you're ready... Change will always come, anytime. It's like a kid who ran away from home, and it's not the same as the kid I'm traveling with now. . . . ... your mother lost your father too."
Zane, Rip, Duma. The changes of these three main characters during their journey also allude to the "nature" of the three characters.
Insect plague strikes. After the rebirth, Rip chose to sacrifice himself to protect Zane; Zane went to the village to ask for help to save Rip; Duma met another cheetah while guarding Rip in a coma. These three things are related but relatively unrelated, which is a metaphor for the difference between the three roles.
When Rip, who had survived twice, saw the children and his wife again, the guilt and joy that came from the sense of family responsibility. Every nuanced change is in Zane's eyes, so he realizes what he's been after along the way.
The three characters found their spiritual home in the name of "home". And we also received the sincere friendship and emotion conveyed by the film. At the end, I believe many viewers have tears and smiles on their faces.
Finally, the monologue of the boy Zane makes a perfect interpretation of the whole film:
"Everyone has a God-given nature. For Duma it's wild, for Rip it's family. For me, it's father."
"Love doesn't change, he doesn't change because of time. It changes with the passage of time and the departure of a loved one."
We all have to return to our roles and fulfill the responsibilities that life has given them. Life is changing all the time, but love does not change because of external changes. Because love and faith have become the most important part of human life.
Love is an innate talent, a language from the soul, and the softest, most delicate and most powerful spiritual force in the world. With love comes responsibility, and home is responsibility. Please take this responsibility as a kind of faith and stick to it. Your life will also be transformed into infinite happiness and beauty because of you.
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