At first, Bruce liked the life of reading newspapers in a cage, like being served milk tea with marshmallows and chocolate, and liked to twiddle with the owner Linda to enjoy an inexhaustible favor. Even in the face of various provocations from the same kind who are free outside the glass window, it can look for various reasons for its own existence like a Q. One of its classic answers is that it believes that it lives in the protection of a modern technology glass field Underneath (the implication is that where do you wild birds enjoy this kind of treatment), it also regards those birds outside as some "three vulgars" who have no knowledge, no culture, and no self-cultivation. Blue can't fly, but he doesn't think there's any problem with that, because under the care of his master, he can't use his wings to fly at all. In this regard, it is also very Ah Q, often talking about masturbation that there are many birds in the world that can't fly.
But coddling is clearly not going to give Bru a truly safe environment, destined for an adventure in his life. And in this adventure, when it found that without the protection of glass, the owner's concern could not keep up with the trip like that slow-moving float, and the cage was no longer a beautiful thing, it understood a truth—— What can truly protect yourself is not being spoiled by others, but a heart that cares for others.
It is true that it also cared for its owner before, but it was to win more love from the owner. It can be said that the doted person is always selfish and does not care about others at all. In Rio, when it found that all the original umbrellas had failed, it was at a loss. At first, it didn't like the opposite sex, because the opposite sex could not give it a sense of security. At this time, it was still thinking about how to protect itself, rather than caring and helping others. What made it change? It was the birds that were native to Rio who lent a helping hand to Bru selflessly, and their mutual love changed Bru's mind.
The film, like some other great American cartoons, has a key plot that is the weight of the whole film. If the point of weight in How to Train Your Dragon is the moment when Hiccup's fingertips touch the nose of the ferocious Yaksha dragon, the point of weight in "Rioda Adventure" is when Blue and Pearl The contrast between Bruce's and Pearl's behavior when the icy physical chain between them fell off was a psychic shock to Blue. When Blue could only stay on the ground, while Pearl was already soaring in the sky, Blue clearly realized that although he and Pearl were the same species, they seemed to live in two worlds . It was only at this time that Bruce really realized that not being able to fly was a shameful thing, a thing that made his "life" a failure.
If the top priority of this film is to shape the love history of such a pair of people with completely different life backgrounds and temperaments, then what I am most looking forward to is the unflyable Blue’s response to his original glass wall. The whole of life's longing is shattered. And the point of weight mentioned above is the last bit of strength that makes it shatter. The film does a good job of it at this point.
Of course, in the end, Blue learned to care for others, and between him and Pearl there was a warm chain connecting hearts to hearts, a chain of love that could no longer be broken or needed to be broken free.
Another delicate and thought-provoking portrayal in Rio is flying. Flying in this film is not as simple as an action of a bird, but a symbolic existence, which implies the true state of a free nature. And that's what Blue lost, and it's what he needs to get back.
Judging from the carnival singing and dancing descriptions of the birds in the Rio jungle at the beginning and the end of the film, the film has a clear tendency to praise nature, freedom and authenticity. And as I mentioned just now, from scoffing at the ability to fly, to losing a kind of identity with myself because I couldn't fly, flying played a decisive role in the process of Bruce's thought transformation. That is to say, it is the desire for nature, freedom and authenticity hidden in Bru's heart that drives Bru's thought change. This is a very profound metaphor. Did you notice the memories of Bruce falling from the tree when he was a child that kept flashing when he was learning to fly, that is a kind of authenticity calling in his heart.
Like Smallville, the protagonist finally completes the mastery of flying skills. The difference between the two is that in "Small Man" Clark Kent finally mastered flying skills, implying a kind of graduation. He completed all the skills Superman needed and reached a mature state; while in "Rio Adventure" In ", Bruce finally mastered the flying skills, it is not a kind of success, but returned to his true state. The film is to make it return from a psychotic state of mind caused by being over-indulged to a normal state of mind that knows how to care.
This film is another excellent work after "Owl Kingdom" in shaping birds. Please pay special attention to its description of bird wings, and it does not copy various Disney-like anthropomorphic settings (in Disney films. In Chinese, the wings of birds are not wings at all, but hands that can grasp, pick up, point, and hold), but maintain their own function as much as possible - that is, to fly. Doing so also underscores the importance of flying in the film, and draws attention to flying rather than anthropomorphic action gimmicks.
In addition, the Brazilian-style music in this film is quite exciting, and the description of the grand scene of the carnival is also shocking. But these things are only the coat of the film after all.
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