"Cat in Boots" revolves around this cat, telling a story that can be almost completely independent of the Shrek series. It has two keywords: one is friend and the other is dignity. The core of the film is to describe what happens when the two conflicts.
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The cat and Dandan were friends. They dreamed of getting magic beans and going to the Sky Giant's castle to find the goose that lays the golden eggs, so that they could enjoy the endless wealth of their lives. But by a coincidence, the cat rescued a person in the town, so he became the hero of the town. People gave him hats and boots, and more importantly, gave him his respected dignity. So the cat has become integrated into people's rule system, and he no longer agrees with the kind of sneaky life. However, the clever Dandan used the cat to steal the bank in the town. It suddenly became clear to the cat that his hard-earned dignity would be lost in an instant. When Dandan fell into the water, the cat did not reach out to save him.
After that, neither cat nor Dandan can survive in the town. The cat is considered a thief, loses his dignity, and becomes a tramp, while Dandan wants to avenge him. After many years, the cat who has become a swordsman and wandering meets Dandan again, and Dandan finally waits for a chance for revenge. On the surface, the cat is bored with dandan, thinking that he has destroyed his comfortable and peaceful life, and the most important thing is the destruction of his own system and dignified life, but in his heart he still agrees with his previous and dandan place To spend the lives of friends. When a conflict arises that a friend makes him lose his dignity, how to deal with it and how to choose, the plot of the film gradually reaches a climax.
The stray cat bears the heartache of losing his dignity, and at the same time the guilt of abandoning his friends, making his stray wandering into a kind of solitary suffering. Although he was still wearing the boots that symbolized dignity once given to him by the people in the town, they were nothing more than a spiritual comfort for self-deception. He is looking for an opportunity to regain his dignity, and he is also looking for an opportunity to make up for his lost friends.
With this kind of ambivalence, he agreed to cooperate with Dandan again, although the audience could see that Dandan made it clear that he was using him to obtain the goose that lays the golden egg, and then framed him for the purpose of revenge. The target of Dandan's revenge is not just the cat alone, but he has to attract the mother goose to destroy the entire town, because the town is unfair to him and does not endow him with the same sense of dignity as his friend, the cat. In fact, the initial estrangement between the cat and Dandan came from the fact that when the cat gained dignity, Dandan did not gain it. He was unbalanced and uneasy, and he felt frustrated and uneasy. That's why he hopes to bring the cat back to his own side, not hesitate to deceive the cat, and he does not hesitate to design to make the cat lose its heroic and dignified status.
As the ending, the film is of course very successful. After the cat's heavyweight speech, Dandan returned to kindness. It can be said that the prodigal son will not change his money. Only when he is himself can he win his dignity. The cat who was once deprived of boots by the soldiers of the town, then realized what he was looking for in wandering. It is a matter of dignity to have friends and a heart that is willing to dedicate to others.
With this understanding, he rescued the village again. Although the soldiers in the town did not know this and regarded him as a wanted criminal, the cat who put on his boots at this time has transformed from a tramp to a man. Lone Ranger. Although he is no longer in the system at this time, he also possesses a sense of dignity, which can be described as transcendent. Different from the sense of dignity when he first put on his boots, the former is a kind of face dignity that he needs to preserve through hypocrisy, while the latter is his inner dignity after he becomes himself.
Boots are the most important prop in "The Cat in Boots". On the one hand, it represents the face dignity granted by others. On the other hand, when the cat understands that wearing it means to be the real self and not what others want to see, it sublimates into a kind of inner dignity. Just like a black cat can always steal a cat’s boots inadvertently, a thing like face and dignity can be easily deprived, but the inner dignity will not be robbed.
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