My heart is still at the moment when the primitive people climbed to the top of the giant tree, when Guy blew out the torch in his hand, the sky full of stars, and the galaxy magnificently displayed in front of them. For the Cruders, who regard going out at night as a death rule, this scene may have never been seen in their lives. Changing the existing dogmatic thinking not only allows them to enjoy the practical convenience of stepping on sharp corals without pain, but also allows them to appreciate a spiritual picture-life can turn out to be as brilliant as a sky full of stars. Life is not simply "immortality", but a process to be enjoyed by oneself.
Another scene that impressed me was that in a stone formation like a maze, when the other members of the Crude family followed their own way-an innovative way that had never been tried before, they found a way out. At that time, only the father was still walking around in circles, and couldn't get out of the puzzle. In fact, at that time, he must be very frightened in his heart. On the surface, he was afraid of not being able to get out of the maze. In fact, it was because of the failure of his original method and concept, which caused the fear of lack of faith. At this time, a new belief came in naturally. In fact, the United States’ cultural enlightenment of the world is just using this method to first put people in other civilizations in a maze, make them distrust their original ideas, and then instill their ideas in a logical way.
Of course, the above are just my disrespectful associations. But the film's portrayal of his father Gua Ge is indeed a bit too symbolic, that is, I hope that he will become a symbol of transformation from conservative to reform. For this symbolization, the film takes it for granted that a Gua brother who has always been conservative, in order to maintain his position of authority in the family-not to be replaced by the new Maotou boy Gai, can suddenly change his past style and do it himself. Start innovation. In my opinion, this kind of transition is a bit too big a 180-degree turn, and from a deep level, it doesn't conform to the characteristics of the father. It should be consistent that he suffers from the inability to innovate and change easily, rather than suffering from the temporary uselessness of those new ideas.
Communication studies classify audiences into innovators, early practitioners, followers, and lagging ones, and there is a correspondence in this film. Guy is an innovator, he is the source of new ideas and ideas; his daughter Yi is an early practitioner, she has the strongest subjective desire and practical motivation for understanding new things; mother, two other children and grandmother all follow They have to wait for the purpose of new things to be clarified before adopting and accepting them. This is a relatively safe category of consumers. Finally, Gua Ge is a lagging one. When most people have accepted the new things, this kind of consumer People still use the old ways, and their behavior is difficult to change. From this perspective, "Crazy Primitives" insists on developing a lagging person into a follower, and even the follower is not even a follower in the end. He has become an innovator. This idealized character curve is nothing more than In order to strengthen the enlightenment of American ideas and culture.
Regardless of the symbolic meaning of Gua Ge’s theme in the film-change-this aspect, his role in the unit of family and affection is commendable, especially when he finally discards the other members of the family in turn. When he reaches the safe side and leaves himself in a dangerous situation, even if he is the most lagging behind in the world, his figure is extremely tall! What he has done for his family has been enough to support a great personality, why bother to ask him to leap from a lagging person to an innovator and become a "completion person"? He loves his family so deeply and protects everyone with his strength and hands. Even if his thinking is conservative and rigid, shouldn't we also admire him? From the perspective of the character's arc, it may be inevitable that the film will describe the change of Gua Ge's thinking, but from the perspective of life, I think he may be more conservative in maintaining his conservativeness. Because life requires not only innovation, but also conservation; children not only need the so-called new ideas, but sometimes they also need the traditional nagging of their parents.
Another person who impressed me was my grandmother. This lively grandmother has a very low status in the family. Unlike a Chinese family, the older people are more respected. Gua Ge even often imagines a family life without her-because she is a "useless" person who can neither hunt nor hunt. Cannot discipline children. In the eyes of primitive people who prioritize practicality, she is of course superfluous. But let’s see, is she extra in the end? Do not! Is she useless? nor! She finally made a heavyweight speech, telling her son Gua Ge: You made me look at me with admiration. In addition to the need for comics, this character finally turned into a real elder image, judging the protagonist's behavior from the perspective of a wise man and a benevolent person. Finally, we know that she is also a wise and kind-hearted person.
There are many cute things in the film. Here, the creator uses an interesting method of creating cute things, called mixing. If you look closely, each animal in it is created by a mixture of two or three types of animals in reality. For example, the baby elephant is a combination of a mouse and an elephant; a flying fish is a combination of a shark and a certain bird, and so on. It is difficult to create a different world, especially to create so many colorful creatures in different worlds. The hybrid method may be a method worthy of our director to learn.
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