"We Bought a Zoo" is a typical Hollywood production. The writer Benjamin, who became chaotic because of his wife's death, was entangled in the despair in his life. He wanted to live in a different place, so he fancyed a place in a zoo away from the city. Real estate, however, the seller’s condition is that if they buy the real estate, they must take over the zoo on the verge of bankruptcy. So the protagonist bought the zoo and realized a dream of a paradise. In the end, many problems about life, family, and career were resolved, and he gained a lot of precious and beautiful state of mind. A lot of films like this, such as "The Descendants", such as "Sunshine Cleaning", but the magic of Hollywood lies in this. Although we know that Benjamin will inevitably face the embarrassment of not having money, we know that he must suffer from the illness in the tiger. When making a choice, we know that our son will blame him for being away from the social circle of the city. We also know that the zoo will eventually be able to reopen. The father-son relationship will eventually be delicate and long. The most obvious thing is that Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson will eventually be together. But we still devote ourselves wholeheartedly to Benjamin's adventure, letting such healing films capture our hearts accurately.
In the movie, Benjamin's daughter complained that her father hadn't told herself a story for a long time since she moved to the zoo, and Benjamin replied, "We live in the story." Is there a more dreamy life in the world? Listening to the lions hiss every day, I wake up in an environment like the African rainforest; in the evening, watching the sunset dye different colors, expecting the little peacocks to hatch; at night, I lie on the roof with my favorite person and watch the stars... Life is so good that we never dreamed of it in our dreams, but now it is so truly in front of you, those very beautiful and spiritual animals are nearby, and that pure state of mind is within reach.
What moved me most about "We Bought a Zoo" was the "20 seconds of courage" and the phrase "Why not?" Although there is a Why, it expresses an extremely firm attitude towards life. Finally the zoo reopened. Everyone was flying kites on the grass as if they were pulling their own dreams. There were too many beautiful things, but do we have the courage to take it on? As Principal Dumbledore taught us "It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, it is our choices.".
We watch so many movies so that we don't have to see a psychologist. When the happiness of others is so real in front of us, what we get is the satisfaction of being healed. Watching in the dreams of others, we feel at a moment that why our dreams cannot be so big and so colorful. Sometimes the risk may not be to break the order, but to turn the dream into reality.
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