Very plain and sincere feeling

Laila 2022-03-21 09:01:49

The feeling of watching this film is the same as the first time the hero and his daughter saw the zoo. The sun shines on the ground, there is warm sunshine everywhere, and all kinds of animals live endlessly, quiet but full of vitality, giving people a very powerful feeling. I think this is the temperament of this film, plain, warm and powerful.

In this film, the zoo has a richer connotation. For the male protagonist, he abandoned worldly troubles and returned to the inner garden of Eden. For her daughter, he is a playground, and it will also be a source of happiness and fond memories of childhood forever. For his son, he is the direction of future efforts and a haven to rely on and take shelter from. For the heroine, he is the foundation of his career and his original aspiration. For the tourists who poured in on the first day of Rose Ze, the zoo is a deep and hard-to-leave local feeling.

What's great about this film is that all these emotions are expressed very well. In the film, everyone has their own troubles and their own problems, but these problems have reached a very harmonious unity through the zoo itself (or the animals themselves). Overall, it is a film that is easy to accept and has a natural positive energy.

I appreciate the man's definition of the act of running a zoo: it's a real adventure. Because he didn't understand anything, just because his daughter liked it, he plunged into his non-professional field. Moreover, in the first half of the film, the male protagonist often shows a very natural face, and it is difficult to see his enthusiasm for the zoo. He's just being constantly PUSHed by other colleagues at the zoo to do this and do that. And what really changed this state, I think, is the tiger SPAR, the deceased wife and the heroine, and among them, the influence of the previous two characters is the most impressive.

I think Tiger SPAR to a large extent represents the situation of the male protagonist in society, a person who has had a successful experience, but has no choice but to enter his old age. In the film, there are many scenes where the male protagonist and spar communicate, and they all show this contrasting relationship, which is very moving. I think the reason why the male protagonist insists on not euthanizing the tiger must be a kind of melancholy and sadness. In the end, the tiger came to an end, and the male protagonist was reborn from the ashes.

What really helped the male protagonist come back from the ashes, in addition to the emotional exchange of tigers, but also the god assists of his deceased wife and real money. Although there is not much description of this character in the film, it really portrays this character very vividly. He knew that the male protagonist would fail, but he also knew that the male protagonist would definitely have his own ideas. He secretly saved money to support the male protagonist's future investment, and earnestly admonished the male protagonist to make up his own mind and pursue his own ideals. He didn't kidnap the male protagonist to do things he didn't like for the sake of his children. And judging from the fact that the male protagonist is in a hurry to take care of the children after losing his wife, the role of the deceased wife usually takes good care of the two children, and is a standard good wife and good mother.

It is also the accumulation of the character of the deceased wife in the dark lines of the film that makes the final ending of the film very moving. The return of the deceased wife's true image announced the family's return to harmony and warmth, and also imprinted a bond that will never be cut off for the family.

Relatively speaking, I think the line between the male protagonist and the widow sister is generally handled. It seems that the widow sister has always been on the pole. The first half of the male protagonist is worried about the money, and the second half is worried that the license will not be passed. I was stunned that I did not give the widow sister any time and space for emotional communication. In the end, the two embraced and kissed. Is the Lord so reluctant?

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We Bought a Zoo quotes

  • [first lines]

    Dylan Mee: My dad is a writer who specialized in adventure.

    Benjamin Mee: This is Benjamin Mee. I am surrounded by hundreds, probably thousands of killer bees. If I wasn't wearing this suit, I would be dead in an instant.

    Dylan Mee: He interviewed dangerous dictators.

    Hugo Chavez: Take this message to that American cowboy. We already gave a 10 billion dollar oil credit to China. Swallow that, Mr. Danger!

    Benjamin Mee: What's your favorite movie?

    Hugo Chavez: Toy Story.

    [to his staff]

    Hugo Chavez: The first one or the second one?

    Segundo: The second.

    Dylan Mee: He even flew into the center of Hurricane Charley.

    Benjamin Mee: [shouting over air noise] How far are we from the eye?

    Pilot: About two minutes. This hurricane, sir, Charley is really kneading us well, sir.

    Benjamin Mee: Tell me when it gets severe!

    Dylan Mee: He knew the ins and outs of strange and exotic adventure, backwards and forwards. But nothing prepared him for this one.

  • Benjamin Mee: [loosing track of Rosie at the zoo] Oh God, I keep her home one day from school and she gets eaten!