The future of mankind is humanity——the cultural vision of the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Clotilde 2022-03-22 09:01:05

God always uses poverty to test a person's virtues, and then rewards and punishes based on his performance. Narrator: Charlie Bagt is an ordinary little boy. He doesn’t run faster than other kids, nor is he stronger or smarter. His family is not rich, he has no background, and he is not a relative of the imperial family. In fact, they are three of them. Meals don't continue. Charlie Bagt is the luckiest little boy in the world, but he doesn't know it yet. Charlie lives with his parents, grandparents, and grandparents in a shabby, shabby little hut that is about to collapse. The four elderly grandparents and grandparents squeeze into a bed and can only sit on the bed and sleep on their feet. There is no place for Little Charlie in the room, and the poor child can only sleep in the attic alone. As the head of the family, his father is responsible for supporting the family, but he can only do a long-working job with very little salary in the toothpaste factory. Although the family is extremely poor, the family still lives happily. The four elderly people are very virtuous and their parents are like guests. Even if the technological innovation makes the father unemployed, the virtuous wife does not complain, but encourages her husband: "You will find a new job." ... Don't worry, we will transfer." The family in poverty loves each other and supports each other. Charlie is kind, innocent, smart and sensible. He never burdens his parents and old people. The unexpected surprise that his father can give him is just the factory rubbish toothpaste bottle caps. Charlie has no thoughts or dislikes himself. His parents, he turned the most useless toothpaste bottle cap into the most intellectually-developing puzzle toy, and built a beautiful castle. This family is true Christians, and humility and gratitude are their virtues. Such souls should receive the grace of God, and Charlie is a true angel. He will bring these saints back to heaven. Obviously, Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory is an image of heaven, and coming here is the dream of every child in the world. Willy Wonka used chocolate to create a wonderful fairy tale world. Charlie's grandfather was once a happy worker in this factory. However, there is also the Devil Satan in heaven. Because the secret formula was stolen, and all the unique technologies fell completely, Weili Wonka disbanded all the workers in anger and announced that the chocolate factory would be closed forever. The factory has been dark and silent since then. Later, although the work was restarted and there was continuous smoke coming out of the chimney, Grandpa did not go to work again, nor did he see anyone entering or leaving the factory. The factory’s gates were kept locked, and no one saw Weili Wonka again, the only one from the factory. Only the candies that have been packed and sealed and distributed are all that come out. The chocolate factory has become a mystery. The more mysterious the factory, the more people are eager to learn about it. But no one can enter the factory gate, the family had to give up this idea, At this time grandma told Charlie: There is nothing impossible in the world. Therefore, Charlie's dream has not been destroyed. The white-haired Weili Wonka had no wife or children when he reached middle age, so finding a suitable heir became his most urgent need. So Willy Wonka randomly placed five gold coupons in the inner packaging of the chocolates and shipped them to the world for sale. Children from all over the world will have five lucky children have the opportunity to visit the factory, and one of them will win beyond anyone's imagination. Jackpot. The first lucky person to get the gold ticket was Augustus Grup, a fat German boy.

This is the son of a nouveau riche. This little fat Dun'er, who grew up in a butcher’s shop, eats a lot of chocolate every day. His son is gluttonous, and the butcher’s father has money to satisfy his desires. This is a nasty kid. The second lucky person is Veluka, the daughter of a nut factory owner.

Her father was a big British capitalist, the upstart in Germany was not qualified, and the big boss of the country of gentlemen was not very clever. He bought a lot of chocolate, and even ignored the production, and ordered all the female workers to stop their work. Unpacking the chocolate packaging box to help her daughter realize her "dream", this is the so-called lucky of this rich girl. The child is innocent, and the negligent father mistakenly conveyed this message to his daughter: This world is mine, and I want what I want. Moreover, there is no principle and moral standpoint. The arrogant little girl is more annoying than the fat German boy. Parents spoiling a girl like this will not have a good end. Coincidentally, today is Charlie’s birthday. Dad bought a pack of chocolates as Charlie’s birthday gift, but there was no surprise. Despite this, Charlie did not show disappointment or resentment, he still shared the chocolate with his family.

His well-behaved and sensible are in stark contrast with the previous two children. The third lucky winner is Violet Borregard from Atlanta, USA.

This is a Taekwondo chick, an aggressive little girl, she has the super self-confidence of a natural winner. In her opinion, the ultimate prize is what she has in her bag.

This arrogant and arrogant little girl is also unpleasant. The fourth lucky person is from McTivie in Denver, Colorado, USA. This is a video game boy.

He won the gold ticket not by luck or financial resources, but by his unparalleled IQ. He only bought a box of chocolates and got the ticket because he knew too much high-tech knowledge and was good at calculating, and he had the strongest. The brain is the guarantee for him to get the gold ticket. He doesn't eat chocolate at all. In fact, he hates chocolate. He got the gold ticket just to play a mind game. Chocolate is often children's favorite. Not eating chocolate means that he is a child without innocence. His innocence has been corroded or even wiped out by modern technology, and he has a tendency to violence. Speaking of modern technology, he is somewhat elevated, he is nothing more than a kid who is addicted to video games. A child without innocence is not cute, and he is also unlovable, even if he is extremely smart. Grandpa took out his private money-a coin, and asked the child to try his luck again. There is still no gold ticket. However, the kind child is blessed by God, and an unowned ten-dollar bill in the snow finally allowed Charlie to get the last gold ticket.

The dream of life is about to be realized, but the sensible Charlie knows the dilemma of the family, he is willing to sell the lottery ticket to help the family solve the urgent need. Grandpa educates him in time, not to give up the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize his dream for the sake of money. Five parents waited in front of the factory with their children,

The combination of Grandpa and Charlie means that virtue leads to innocence.

With the grand appearance of Willy Wonka, the five-child barrier game officially began, and a trial began. The green grass and mushrooms are strong, and the chocolate waterfall flows straight down and meanders into a small river,

The beauty unfolded in front of the children is like a fairy tale world. Everything here is not only pleasing to the eye, but also allows people to feast on it.

This fairy tale world is an examination room for five children. This is a puzzle set up by Weili Wonka to test their human qualities. The five children each have their own themes. The greedy, hateful and naive fat boy Augustus Gloop fell into the chocolate river because of his gluttony, and he was about to drown.

After being sucked in by a mechanical water pipe, he was stuck in a narrow passage and he became the first to be eliminated. The theme of the fat boy is-gluttonous children have no future. While trying a magical chewing gum for three meals in the invention room, the taekwondo girl Violet Borregard refused to listen to Wonka’s advice and turned into an oversized blueberry ball.

She also lost the eligibility for the game and was eliminated second. The theme of Taekwondo chick is-arrogant children have no future. In the nut peeling workshop, specially trained squirrels skillfully take out the whole walnut kernel. Of course, the squirrels can also easily detect bad nuts. Seeing such a magical and interesting scene, the domineering girl Veluka immediately issued an order to her father: "I want a squirrel, catch a squirrel for me!" Even though she already has many pets in her family, she is still greedy enough to force her father to be satisfied. For her own unreasonable request, she thought that money could help God.

This move was rejected by Wonka. She arrogantly went to the work area to catch herself.

After being attacked by squirrels, the girl with a broken heart was thrown into the garbage bin as a bad nut by the squirrels.

The father wanted to save his daughter, but was pushed by the squirrel because he was the culprit who spoiled his daughter and corrupted his daughter. He didn't teach her anything except to ask for it. At the end of the pipe is an incinerator, which obviously symbolizes hell,

Hell is the place where the father and daughter should stay forever. The end of desire is self-destruction. This is the punishment that will inevitably be given to children who are not taught and domineering. She was eliminated for the third time, she was only worthy to stay in the smelly garbage dump.

The theme of the rich girl-arrogant and domineering children have no future. The super IQ McDivy loves fighting and killing in video games. He is a representative of modern technology. He is also the most outstanding of this group. However, this child lacks innocence and his soul has been corroded. Like the old Wonka, he thinks "candy is a waste of time". Which kid doesn't like sweets? Don't like to eat candy means that he has lost his innocence, his soul is dying, and he is an old man like old Wonka. He believes that science is omnipotent. Since the transmitter can transmit chocolate, of course it can also transmit people, but science without human purpose can only be trapped on the TV screen.

This is the dilemma of science. The Oberenberger sang: "TV corrupts the brain and stifles the imagination. It blocks people’s thoughts and disturbs people’s hearts. It makes children stupid and can no longer understand the world of fantasy and fairy tales. His brain is as soft as copper and he has the ability to think. Rusty and stagnant. He doesn’t think about it, but only watches.” Television technology is the epitome of modern technology. On the one hand, technological progress has promoted the development of human material civilization, and on the other hand, modern technology has also destroyed the life in the human soul. The inherent simplicity and innocence deprived children of their imagination. From the perspective of life, human beings have degenerated.

This fairy tale was born in the 1960s, and computers were far from popular. Television was the most advanced electronic technology at the time. This film was shot in 2004. Smart phones have not yet entered the public’s field of vision. If you follow the current position , The hazards of computers and smartphones should also be added, which also means that McTivy’s theme-if it is not for human services, if it cannot be conducive to the evolution of life, modern technology also has no future. Lower down, children who are addicted to TV shows and video games have no future. The above four children were eliminated in the competition. In the original book, their endings were even more tragic. They died one by one. If you put such a plot in this movie, I am afraid that all audiences will not be able to accept it, so the director Just punishing them a little and then let them return to normal, the interested audience can understand the director's intentions. In the director's design, the incinerator symbolizes hell, and all four children end up in hell, but the form is different. These four children represent the four personality types and growth models. In fact, they almost summarize the growth path of all children. Who can prevail in the fierce competition for survival, who can become the winner and realize the ideal life? Which personality type and growth model can better represent the future of mankind? Greedy children have no future, arrogant children have no future, arrogant children have no future, and high-tech cannot win the future. Only human nature is the goal and direction of human development. Only the most beautiful human nature can win the future, so only Only Charlie can win the competition. Compared with the previous four children, Charlie is not greedy, arrogant, arrogant, not addicted to TV shows and video games, greedy, arrogant, arrogant, domineering, addicted to TV shows and video games, etc. are children The most common bad habits and personality defects in the game, so they lost in the first four passes. In sharp contrast to them, Charlie is kind, innocent, smart, sensible, humble and grateful, and his excellent personality makes him the luckiest child in the world. He can avoid the organs at every juncture and be virtuous. The child deserves to be rewarded, so Charlie becomes the only winner, but the test on him is not over yet. Willy Wonka proposed that he must abandon his family in order to inherit the chocolate factory, but Charlie flatly refused.

He would rather give up billions of wealth and stay with his family. If there is no love, what use is wealth? This is Charlie's fifth test question, and Charlie's persistence in family affection has become the best answer to this test question. Because of love, because of full confidence in the family, because the family supports each other with one heart and one mind, even if they did not inherit the factory, the Charlie family began to prosper. The confused grandmother began to speak clearly. Grandpa no longer stayed in bed often, the leaks in the roof were repaired, and even his father got a better job again, and the Baggot family had a great life. The rich man Willi Wonka is not so well, because he has no family, his mood becomes depressed, because there is no love, even his newly invented candy is not sweet. He found Charlie, and Charlie told him that the way to get a better mood when depressed is to "be with family." During Willi Wonka’s childhood, his father, a dentist, prohibited him from eating sweets in order to protect his teeth, and put him on extremely exaggerated orthodontics.

Feeling restricted everywhere, Wonka ran away from home out of rebellion and founded his own candy empire out of resistance to his father, but he has never tasted real happiness, more so because of a bad worker. Betrayal, Willy Wonka is almost desperate for human nature, which also makes him unkind. However, the love in his heart has not been completely extinguished. He has hope for the children in his heart. Chocolate is the children’s favorite. The factory is opened for the children. He only thinks about chocolate, which shows that Wonka is a lover of children. He also looked for heirs among the children. However, modern education has made children no longer children. Their hearts are stained with the filthiness of the adult world. The qualities of gluttony, arrogance, arrogance and domineering, addicted to TV shows and video games are the evil results of vulgar education. Only Charlie, a pure and untainted Charlie, can become an angel of love to awaken the sleeping family affection of Will Wonka, and only Charlie is worthy to be the owner of a chocolate factory. When the grown-up Willi Wonka was lying on his father's operating table, with a perfect tooth, his father recognized the power of his childhood, and his son returned. Willy Wonka understands how deep his love for him is by his father, who is strict outside and inside. His father's strict appearance is not to suppress him, but to protect him. The reports about him are carefully tailored and made into plaques. The walls were covered, and it turned out that his father had been paying attention to him silently. The father and son finally regained the long-lost family relationship, and this is because Charlie's company is a human call. In the end Charlie Bagt got a chocolate factory, but Willy Wonka got a better gift-a home, and they each found their own paradise. From a simple point of view, this film is about education. What kind of family education makes good children and bear children, but these are just the appearance of the film. The director's cleverness is that he hides on this theme. With a larger theme-who can bear the future of mankind? This is a question of the construction of human culture. In this movie, Charlie symbolizes love and perfect humanity. Only a heart full of love, and only perfect humanity, can overcome evil and awaken the lost soul, because he represents the fundamental way out for mankind, gluttony, Arrogance, arrogance and domineering are sinful. Their end can only be hell. If there is no love, if there is no beautiful human nature, modern technology can still not find a way out for mankind. Therefore, family education, school education, and social education should all be at the core First of all, pay attention to the curriculum of love and the cultivation of humanity. Only in this way can we have the opportunity to find happiness-heaven. This is the ideological value and humanistic pursuit of this fairy tale movie . A fairy tale movie can have such a profound ideological connotation and such a broad cultural horizon, which is awe-inspiring, but there are also some small shortcomings. For example, when Charlie shines Willy Wonka’s shoes,

He criticized Wonka from behind, and suddenly realized that the guest in front of him was Wonka himself. He was not embarrassed or surprised. Instead, he took the other party’s words directly, as if he knew it was Wonka himself. The performance was obviously. Inaccurate, of course, the responsibility does not lie with the child actors. The young actors are already very talented. This is the negligence of the director. In fact, it’s not a big mistake. It’s too nitpicking to hold on to this small detail, but there is one detail that is really inexcusable, and that is that Charlie picked up a ten-dollar bill. For an honest child, The money and things are to be found and returned to the owner, and Charlie did not hesitate in the play, and directly took the money to buy a box of chocolates. If this detail holds true, Charlie’s image as the protagonist of a fairy tale is really unacceptable. There is a problem with his quality. His good fortune is based on dishonesty. Can we still believe in fairy tales? Isn't this teaching children to be dishonest? This failure directly damaged the values ​​of the film. I think it’s better to modify it like this: the time of the story is set on Christmas Eve. In order to reduce the burden on the family and to earn money for buying chocolates, Charlie worked hard in the cold to polish his shoes. After getting paid, he suddenly discovered that the guests paid. Taking out a ten-yuan bill, the honest child picked it up to catch up with the guest. The guest was moved by Charlie's innocence and honesty and was willing to give this bill to Charlie as a reward and a Christmas gift. In this way, not only the plot is reasonable and reasonable, but Charlie's image is truly perfect. We can go one step further. This guest happened to be Mr. Wonka, who was looking for his son because he missed him. This design makes the structure more complete. It is also a new understanding of Wonka’s improper way of education. Afterwards, the reconciliation of father and son will be a matter of course. Of course, my humble opinion is not necessarily the best idea, but Charlie’s picking up money is an obvious flaw, and it is really a great pity for this wonderful movie.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory quotes

  • Charlie Bucket: But it didn't close forever, it's open right now.

    Mrs. Bucket: Ah, yes, well sometimes, when grown ups say "forever," they mean, "a very long time."

    Grandpa George: Such as, I feel like I've eaten nothing but cabbage soup forever.

    Mr. Bucket: Now pops...

    Grandma Josephine: The factory did close, Charlie.

    Grandpa Joe: And it seemed like it was going to be closed forever. Then, one day, we saw smoke rising from the chimneys. The factory was back in business!

    Charlie Bucket: Did you get your job back?

    Grandpa Joe: No. No one did.

    Charlie Bucket: But there must be people working there.

    Grandma Josephine: Think about it, Charlie. Have you ever seen a single person going into that factory? Or coming out of it?

    Charlie Bucket: No. The gates are always closed.

    Grandpa Joe: Exactly.

    Charlie Bucket: But then, who's running the machines?

    Mrs. Bucket: Nobody knows, Charlie.

  • Violet Beauregarde: [hugs Wonka] Mr. Wonka, I'm Violet Beauregarde.

    Willy Wonka: [freaked out] Oh. I don't care.

    Violet Beauregarde: Well, you should care. Because I'm the girl who's gonna win the special prize at the end.

    Willy Wonka: Well, you do seem confident and confidence is key.