Thoughts on "Boys and the World"

Alberto 2022-01-24 17:48:37

The animation is simple and beautiful but meaningful and rich in imagination. It makes good use of the animation genre to carry those ideas. Childhood is so happy, with the company of parents, the grass at home and outside is the whole world. But people are always unavoidable to leave and grow up. When I come back again, I find that my childhood and hometown are far away, and are gone forever.
The process also described how the Industrial Revolution affected every corner of the world. Production lines were automated, production lines that required manual operations were eliminated, batches of workers were laid off, and production lines were scrapped. Those monsters and hideous machines swallowed everything. The products on the production line are exactly the same, and the creativity is lost. Cheap materials and labor make the third world countries the world’s production factories. Workers are exploited and squeezed, and the money flows to the big bosses and capitalists. The poor become poorer, and the rich become richer. The developed and developing countries are no better. . Perhaps this is an inevitable pain in the development of this world, but after all, it is applied to thousands of individuals and affects their lives. I hope that it is still less utilitarian, more thinking and more benevolent.

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