The 1994 film, I just saw it today, I'm really ashamed. . . But precisely because it is a work from 1994, the director's advanced cognition is even more admirable. (The following is all personal understanding)
Today, many animal protection organizations are calling on people to protect the environment. When protecting animals, they always like to put some miserable pictures of animals. Animals are killed and dying. What can human beings do to "protect" these animals from harm, and One phenomenon is that Western countries criticize China for eating dog meat tirelessly. Don't these phenomena just prove that these people don't put animals and humans on the same level? If animals have the same status as humans in the eyes of humans, animals do not need human mercy and "protection" at all. This kind of "protection" is completely from the perspective of God, thinking that human beings are higher animals, and these lower animals are so pitiful. And it is this kind of "discrimination" from the bottom of the heart that will lead to greater contradictions between humans and animals.
Everything in the world has the same feelings as people. They have wisdom, communication, hierarchy, happiness, sadness, unity, and disagreement. They even have their own persistence and dreams. It is precisely because human beings simply do not believe that some animals have these as well, so they have no hesitation in mutilating them. But at the same time, some countries are still brooding about eating dog meat, because humans believe that dogs have these abilities, and dogs and human society have already blended together (or dogs have actually become humans to a large extent), so humans will Pay more attention to them, and the mutilation of dogs will be more blamed. (In this way, dogs can really be regarded as the first species in the animal kingdom to give up their dreams and "figured it out";) Just like the last choice of these raccoons.
This film is many levels higher than the propaganda of the Animal Protection Association! The director did not design the final confrontation between the raccoon and humans, did not accuse the "evil" of human beings, and did not exaggerate the "miserable" of the raccoon. You can endure this kind of high-pressure life every day.” Some people understand this sentence as a satire of human society, but I feel more that the raccoon understands human beings. It is precisely in the absence of such mutual understanding and equal treatment between human beings and nature that conflicts will continue to escalate. (Of course, it seems even more unrealistic to do this? After all, the survival of the fittest is also a law of nature, and there may be discrimination of this kind among animal species, maybe?)
In short, I feel that the director wants to express a lot, and the concept is not generally advanced. It still seems to be a very deep masterpiece today!
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