An elephant, a sand, a flower and a world

Lon 2021-11-19 08:01:29

Thank you Jidi for recommending this cartoon,
"Horton and the Anonymous".

What are you talking about?
Speaking of an elephant, one day
he found a piece of dust on a flower. He heard someone talking on it, so he believed that there were people living on it, even many people.
In order to protect these people, the elephant embarked on a difficult trek, although he could not see it.
At the same time, there is a small town called Anonymous on this dust.
Everyone in the town is extremely happy and worry-free.
They don't believe that there will be disasters in the future, because there has never been a disaster in the past.
Only the mayor believes that the crisis is approaching and that someone can help them, although he can't see it.

This story immediately moved me!
Do you believe that a piece of sand is a planet?
Do you believe that a flower is a world?
Do you believe that our so-called great planet is actually just a piece of gravel.
Do you believe in things that are simply invisible, even though you alone believe it?

Cartoons are so fun to die, (Hollywood animations have always been like this), and to die of touching,
when you see the flower falling into the endless sea of ​​flowers,
and the clumsy elephant sitting there, piles of piles In the flower, look for his flower;
when you see the people in the jungle about to judge the innocent elephant, because no one believes him, at
this time, a piece of sand burst out screaming, it was actually from a town People shouted together:
"WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE!"
Then, a little kangaroo slowly said: "I heard it!"
...

a fairy tale, but also a fable.
Tell us how self-satisfied these people who live in an anonymous town are enjoying the precarious happiness.
It also tells us that maybe we have ignored countless times, those creatures that are yelling "We exist!"
But what moved me the most was that
this was a mature, sleek, well-developed American commercial film that followed the rules.

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Extended Reading

Horton Hears a Who! quotes

  • Horton: [in imitation of cheaply dubbed anime] I'll make monkeys out of these monkeys!

  • Morton: Just this once, be faithful 99 percent of the time! I mean, I've never gone 99 percent on anything, and I think I'm awesome.