I don't know if it's the cognitive inertia of my own life, or it's a pre-emptive but reasonable expectation of the child's growth environment. When the Nortel Block 800 logo zoomed in on the screen, showing the Namibian baby nibbling on everything around him, while the mother beside him was absent-mindedly feeding with her huge sagging breasts, the audience's reaction must have been completely different from that of the other three babies. different. From beginning to end, the middle-aged woman next to me tutted every time she faced the Namibia passage, clearly expressing her unacceptable attitude towards this "wonder material", especially when the mother put the baby's butt after pooping. The middle-aged woman's discomfort also peaked when she pushed a random rub and shaved her baby's head with a staggering hunting knife.
Therefore, although the director emphasized that "making this film challenged my beliefs and made me reflect on whether I gave my children the best life, and this is also the challenge I gave to the audience", but obviously in this "challenge" ”, the majority of the audience is completely inclined to identify with the modern well-developed and hygienic parenting environment. I think this is not the natural change of people by civilization, but the natural pursuit of safety and comfort. Even if the black African baby welcomed the most laughter and praise, even if he was the funniest of the four equally cute babies, it was inevitable that he had the joyful attribute of curiosity from birth.
All the footage in the documentary was shot at the height of a baby. In this perspective, the audience may not consciously compare and think about the different parenting environments in addition to being moved by the cute and fresh scenes. All four babies have the opportunity to crawl with kittens and puppies, but the most enviable is the Mongolian baby who is more accompanied by cattle and sheep. The open grassland is better than dusty Africa, noisy Tokyo and San Francisco in high-rise buildings. Much brighter, but when the Mongolian baby crawls over the food swarms of flies, he shudders nervously for his third-world parenting environment.
People all hope to give the next generation a harmonious world like Pandora in "Avatar", but they also have to be afraid for the fragile little life to face this strange and even dangerous everything.
This is also the first time I have seen the fun of Focus Pictures' documentaries, which is great!
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