This is also the reason why the film has been recognized by many film critics, because we have seen too many hamburger works produced on American industrial production lines over the years. Although some have beef and some fish, it is still that kind of taste. . The unique temperament of "Insects", pure artistic pursuit, and very French petty bourgeoisie, let us completely put aside the aesthetic fatigue of Hollywood burgers. It may be an exaggeration to say how good its plot is and how high its director’s skills are. Its value lies in bringing a refreshing wind to today’s movie screens. A kind of creation first for oneself and second naturally becomes the market. The required creative logic.
The biggest significance of the film is to remind us to pay attention to the small but not small lives around us. In the past, there were many cartoons featuring cats, dogs, mice, birds and other common animals in life. This naturally made us turn a blind eye to things other than common things. It is as if we often pay more attention to the needs of leaders and turn a blind eye to the needs of subordinates; pay more attention to celebrity news and turn a blind eye to the affairs of ordinary people in society. Insects, small plants and even microbes, although they are small in size and their body structure may not be complicated, they are also earth beings with a global membership, and their lives are also very exciting.
The film has taken restraint in the treatment of animal anthropomorphism, which I particularly appreciate, because we want to restore the true state of tiny lives. The treatment without dialogue is actually a kind of reduction. In the face of the personification of a ladybug, you can actually turn its six limbs into hands and feet, allowing them to shake hands, hold things, and perform various human actions; but the film does not, the film still allows their six limbs to bear only The role of the foot is merely to anthropomorphize the eyes, expressions and mentality. This kind of moderate personification is a kind of respect for tiny lives. We should put ourselves in their perspectives and observe the world with their simple organs, instead of "promoting" them into human beings and pretending to put them on us. Thoughts.
The film makes a good and evil judgment on the war of red ants and black ants. Obviously, the impression given to the audience is that black ants are just and red ants are evil. In the end justice also defeated evil. But this is actually too much to impose human emotion judgments on insects. From the perspective of red ants, whether they are fighting for food or launching ethnic wars, it is not wrong. In fact, the film does not need to bet on their behavior.
The black ant red ant stores a lot of human items. Red ants treat these things as cannonballs, but black ants really use matches as matches. It can be said that black ants are obviously higher than red ants in terms of IQ. Of course, this is still from a human perspective, that is, whoever is closer to humans and who learns humans more thoroughly will be able to master advanced productivity. This is actually a self-deception. Do insects really want to learn from humans? In the first half of the film, insects use their own way to forage, carry food, and communicate with each other. The plot is very exciting because they respect the value of insects themselves. In the second half of the film, when insects start to imitate humans, the film falls into A kind of indispensable and nondescript, destroys all the delicate emotions constructed in the first half.
We can imagine that insects have views of family, love, and friendship, which reflects the smallness of insects. The existence of these views is not wishful thinking, because insects are inherently there, but we usually don't notice it at all. What the film shows is just to remind us that such a tiny life has these insignificant emotions, how touching and worthy of our love for nature! But we should never imagine that insects all want to use tools, fight, and judge good and evil like humans do. Compared to the world of insects, some of our human thoughts may actually be insignificant.
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