It took 14 years for "The Incredibles" from the first to the second, and this family is really likable.
In the first part, Mr. Bob, the already big belly insurance claims adjuster, finally found his own place with the help of the Superman Support Program.
But the drama is like life, the world is always not so smooth, the world has issued regulations prohibiting the use of super powers because of the extremely destructive protective behaviors of super heroes.
In the second part, because of a big incident, the superman support plan stopped, Mr. Superman had to return to the family again, but this time he returned quite simply, he became a super dad directly from a super hero.
The most unexpected thing in the world is to let a man take the child.
Bob in Super 2 is indeed responsible for too much compared to the daddy who has been exposed on the Internet.
But it's also really full of conditions--
Telling a story to Xiaojie, he fell asleep first;
The math problems in Ba Xiaofei Primary School seemed simple, but it made him stay up all night;
Not only that, but he also has to face the relationship problems of his adolescent daughter——
If he in the first part is the mourning of a mid-life crisis, then he in the second part is almost lost.
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Like Luffy, the super mother who ate rubber fruit, this time because of the low damage value when she was a hero, was selected as Superman's spokesperson, and ran to regain Superman's rights.
This exchange of functions runs through the entire movie, and it seems that the jokes are constant and very interesting.
But director Brad Bird doesn't just want to make a simple popcorn cartoon.
He wants more.
In the first part, he had already put the existence of Superman on the table-
Bob rescued a person who wanted to commit suicide—and the person who committed suicide accused him of nosy;
He was stuck in a traffic jam and rescued a passenger who was on a train-but he was accused by the passenger of forcibly braking and injured himself and demanded compensation;
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So a superhuman world with "Forbidden to use super powers" was born!
The timeline of the second part is completely connected to the first part, and the big drill at the end of the first part becomes the cause of the second big event.
In this film, director Brad Bird raised the core question of superhero movies that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has also discussed: do we need heroes at all.
From the problem of superhuman identity in the first part, it directly rises to the collision of heroism and existentialism;
Although this is a regular topic of super British works, whether the integration is smart determines the quality of the movie and the visibility of the story.
Such questions seem to be more suitable for the relatively dark worldviews of Marvel and DC.
For a Pixar cartoon, it must be fun, cute, funny...
It is actually very difficult to put such a macro problem in these relatively young tooth-oriented elements, and to tell a good story of smoothness and no urination.
What's more, when the starting point of the first part is so high.
First of all, the design of the whole story is very delicate.
The setting of the world view is the motivation of the protagonist’s behavior. This world’s superpowers are illegal. Does the superman family want to live the lives of ordinary people in compliance with the law? Or do we have to pay silently while breaking the law to maintain world peace?
The two defensive friends who hold different opinions, Super Mom and Super Dad are struggling and struggling.
As the cause of the whole story, this has enough story driving force.
It is the commercial power that supports them.
Under such impetus, the story advances in a completely opposite direction from the first part.
The first part is Super Dad performing the task, Super Mom takes the baby at home, and the second part is the opposite, but it is also more interesting.
The story is two lines in parallel, Super Mom's career line of strong women and Super Dad's line of husband and wife are very exciting.
The "turn" in superhero movies has always been based on villains.
A successful, thoughtful, connotative, highly motivated and very advanced villain can make super-British movies that look the same to show a strange brilliance.
The villain in "The Incredibles 2" has such potential.
The villain is named Pingba-the name is very advanced with the times.
And his motivation is not like the first Adi—just because Super Dad didn't play with him, he started to disrupt.
The screen tyrant has a deeper and more convincing motivation.
Although TA has no superpowers, it has the ability to create the latest technology and can hypnotize people through the screen.
From the perspective of his motivation, Pingba also raised a series of anti-heroist and thought-provoking questions-
With Superman, the world may be safe (may not be), but the sense of security that Superman brings has made us lose the most basic sense of self-protection.
So when danger comes, people no longer think of something to do to make themselves safe, but expect superhumans to protect themselves;
The screen tyrant also developed this point of view to question, so that you in front of the screen also have to fall into deep thought.
People nowadays don’t exercise, they just like watching other people’s sports in sports broadcasts;
People no longer travel, fall in love, and think, because they prefer to pack these variety shows without consuming energy;
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This is simply an existential soul torture.
The core point of existentialism is that people living in a meaningless universe must have meaning in meaningless life through self-shaping and self-achievement.
But now people and the meaning they should be pursuing are kidnapped by screens-the development of technology has replaced thinking, and it has also allowed people to follow the trend and follow the trend.
What Superman can save is the safety of society. The human beings covered by Superman and technology are sinking into this meaningless universe little by little!
This villain may be a bit extreme, but it also makes people have to think about some issues like Thanos.
The director also asked more direct and deeper questions through the film: if the law is wrong, should it be followed or opposed?
Human beings are progressing in constant resistance. History is always so similar. Those who challenge authority have either become heroes or sinners.
Mr. Super and the super people of the world he lives in are walking in this gap.
It is to challenge authority, move forward bravely, and assume the risk of being condemned by public opinion in a media-oriented society;
Or are you willing to be mediocre, like Mr. Superpower in the first movie, to be an ordinary social person?
Both works interpret both of these choices.
From this perspective, "The Incredibles 2" makes this series more complete.
The work raises such a profound question, but it does not give a clear answer. But how can we ask for a cartoon to answer questions that we can’t even speak of ourselves?
Its ability to incorporate this problem into such an interesting and non-urinary story, so that we can see, is already quite remarkable.
Director Brad Bird once said that he would shoot a sequel only when he came up with a story that was not inferior to Super One.
Judging from the results, "The Incredibles 2" did indeed.
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