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This is a movie with live action + CG generation of core cartoon characters.
On the surface, it is a journey of discovery oriented towards nature, but it is actually a journey of discovery oriented towards the heart, to discover what is more important.
Parrots, weasels, dogs, alpacas, a large collection of interesting animals.
A story of friends and cute creatures.
Celine Dion at the end is similar to Fan Bingbing's appearance in "Thailand".
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There are some spoilers, so be careful!
I didn't expect that this year's box-office champion of this year's French local film, with a tongue-in-cheek name, actually integrated so many things. Until I watched the film, I was still not sure how the director managed to cram so many things into one film so neatly. In addition to the main line of different people tracking the mysterious creature Masubilami with different motivations, the
three family films also have three emotional clues involving the family, and they all end up in the friendship between father and son.
This kind of coincidence is amazing.
The first is the relationship between the journalist and his father, who is the director of the column. His father loves him very much, but he hates that iron cannot become steel, and he doesn't know how to express it. He was expected by his father to have some achievements in journalism, and was sent by his father to various dangerous places to experience. If he's just perfunctory himself, or even tricking himself into deceiving his father to deceive the audience, then he's going to hurt everyone. And when he got rid of the idea of cheating and got the real big news, his father also showed a heartfelt smile.
The second is the relationship between the vet and his adopted children. Veterinarians believe Masubilami exists, but the children see Masubilami as one of his lies. He hates people for thinking of him as a liar, but sometimes he doesn't even know if he is a liar. He did deceive people, often even to make a living, but he never intended to deceive his own children. Because after all, he wants to be a good father in the eyes of his children. So when he saw the child in the studio who no longer believed in his eyes, he was so panicked, and in the end, the appearance of Masubilami made him a great father.
Finally, of course, is the relationship between Masubilami and the child. Masubilami is a cartoon character generated by CG. It bravely came to the human territory to save its own eggs. When it saw the eggs hatch, the warm and happy expression was very well displayed.
If only the father-son relationship of a certain family appears in the film, then it is isolated and helpless. It is precisely because so many father-son relationships appear that complement each other, so that they can take care of each other, and there is no sense of inadequacy.
Three kinds of social
cities, villages and towns, primitive tribes, the film shows the three social forms of human society evolution and development one by one in front of the audience. There are not only the recklessness of primitive people entering advanced society, but also the modern people entering primitive society. helplessness manifested.
The villages and towns of the fictional country of Valencia are the scenes that the film takes the audience into at the beginning. The bungalows and bushes that can be seen everywhere, as well as the overall yellowish tone, make people feel a strong country feeling. But suddenly, the film jumps to the planning office of a TV station in a big city. The huge clean and tidy white space makes people feel suffocated, and the efficiency and depression of modern life come at the same time. Then, the male protagonist was sent to Barumbia to interview the primitive tribes. Why must we interview the primitive tribes? Just because the film must show different social aspects. Sure enough, the primitive tribes, characterized by all kinds of red tape and totem worship, are in stark contrast to the villages and cities. In fact, the existence of primitive tribes also provides an appropriate entrance for the characters in the film to connect with nature.
However, the three societies are intrinsically linked, which is one of the film's most ingenious designs. City TV is undoubtedly advanced, but it is most concerned with the problem of primitive tribes, and spends a lot of money to set up scenes of primitive jungles in the studio. The anchor must be a black person - although she is so modern, she still echoes the color of the primitive people in the tribe. If she is white, there is no sense of primitiveness at all. The general in the village and town yearns for urban modern culture, and has the fashion icon of Celine Dion. His Celine Dion collection room is the only space in the countryside that has a sense of city. At the same time, both botanists and veterinarians in villages and towns frequently haunt virgin forests, building a bridge for villages and towns to graft primitive tribes. The final point is that primitive tribes met the fate of villages and cities through prophecy, and their dances were not primitive at all.
The three concept
films can be said to have done a good job in the motives of the characters. Everyone does everything for a certain motive, and they can find psychological and emotional appeals. There are three common themes or ideas in other films.
One is environmental protection. The reason why veterinarians tracked Masubilami is to prove its existence and that he is not deceiving, while the reason why botanists track Masubilami is to find a special orchid that can rejuvenate. Later two tracking operations collided and morphed into a struggle to loot and protect Masubilami. There is a theme of environmental protection here. Masubilami is actually the spirit and symbol of nature. To protect it is to protect nature; to prove its existence is to prove that nature is beyond people’s knowledge, mysterious and great existence.
The second is news. The film allows us to once again appreciate the importance of the authenticity of news in Western society. They pursue things with ratings, because ratings can bring advertising and commercial value, but they also emphasize the bottom line of morality, which is also the view of journalism. the foundation of existence. L'Oreal's advertisement is actually a satire in it. When the botanist wants to sell the rejuvenating medicine to L'Oreal to make a lot of money, when L'Oreal's face mask advertisement appears repeatedly, people have a better understanding of the dirty things behind the business. It is also in stark contrast to the truth of the news after the advertisement.
The third is vanity. The botanist always wanted to be respected, but the general did not give him any financial support, let alone respect. When he stumbled upon the rejuvenating effect of orchids, his selfishness and desires inflated. He gained a status he didn't have before, and a temporary version of respect, but he lost the admiration and love of his students forever. This gets us thinking about a clichéd topic - vanity.
"Tracking Masubilami" is so all-encompassing, interlocking, and supporting each other; it is also so humorous, wise, gripping, and touching. On the surface, it is a rescue trip for Masubilami, but it is actually a self-rescue battle. One has to get out of the haze of deception, and the other has to get out of the inner condemnation of news fraud. On the surface, it is a journey of discovery oriented towards nature, but it is actually a journey of discovery oriented towards the heart, to discover what is more important.
Let's take a look at the performance of these two friends chasing cute things. It includes all the gimmicks that can attract people.
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