If one sentence sums up the plot of "Moon God", it is a family of three generations of men cleaning the moon. The plot is so simple, the important thing is not the plot, but the metaphor hidden in the plot. 1. The characters are a little boy who has just started working, a burly father and a battle-hardened grandfather. After watching the film, I feel that the settings of these three characters are not unreasonable. At the beginning of the film, grandpa handed him a package, like a gift for a little boy, the gift was a hat, a hat exactly like his father and grandpa. We know that the work of the little boy's family is to "clean up the moon", and the hat is a gift from his grandfather and father before the work begins - the little boy is like a young man who has just graduated and is about to enter the society, his father and grandfather It's like middle-aged and old people who have been through many battles in society.
2. Objects The character metaphor is mentioned above, and the objects in the film also have some metaphorical meanings. hat. There are three identical hats, the grandfather has, the father has, and the little boy has before going to "sweep the moon", so the hat is not just a hat, it may be a sign of the inheritance of the family business.
tool. During the cleaning process, my father used a small broom, showing the way my father worked. Grandpa used a large broom. Grandpa likes to clean piece by piece with a big broom, while the little boy uses a hammer. In the face of the big star that suddenly landed, grandpa and dad used various tools to clean it up, but all failed. The little boy climbed on the big star and hit it with a hammer, and the big star turned into a small star. If these three people represent people at different levels, then the tool is their way of handling things.
3. Behaviour The little boy puts on a hat. Grandpa thinks that the hat should be lifted up. Dad thinks the hat should be flat. If hats are a sign of inheritance, then these two ways of wearing hats, like tools, represent how fathers and grandpas handled things. Later, the little boy put his hat upside down, which is different from his father and grandfather. In the picture, the boy climbs the stars in the foreground, the middle scene is standing with his father and grandfather, and the background is a sea of stars. The reversed hat represents the uniqueness of the little boy.
The little boy imitates the movements of his father and grandpa - imitating the experience of his predecessors. If based on what I said above, in the heart of the little boy, the behavior and thoughts of Dad and Grandpa are correct, for him it is experience, so he will imitate.
Dad and grandpa were arguing about how to clean the moon, and the little boy gestured with a tool for their beards. It's like the new youth represented by the little boy is making fun of the old generation in the past.
The short film looks at three generations cleaning the moon, but it actually reflects today's society. Grandpa is a conservative who has experienced vicissitudes of life, father is a leader who rolls around in society, and the little boy is a young newcomer who is entering the society. The way they sweep the moon represents the actions of these three men in the face of modern trends.
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