Animals are complex machines

Neva 2022-03-23 09:03:29

[Zi Xiong Story].The.Bear film critic

Descartes once said: "Animals are complex machines." There is nothing wrong with animals. Animals also have the same rich emotions as humans, and even these emotions are deeper, tougher, and more intense than humans. Loyalty. After being shot, a big male bear can endure severe pain and run for several miles in one breath, so that humans can't catch up, and it will attack people in mysterious ways. impossible. After being tempered by nature, animals often have more powerful spirit and survival power than humans, but humans become more cowardly, incompetent and insignificant. The bear will lick the wound of an unacquainted fellow to make it healthy. Not only that, the little bear just licked the wound for Nobita, and the big bear took care of him as he treated his own cub, giving him fish to eat, deer to eat, the anthropomorphic performance of the little bear in the movie, like playing with butterflies, catching frogs , The embarrassment of eating fish makes people laugh. Later, the hunter brought hounds to hunt them down. The little bear fell behind, and the big bear stepped forward. Although he was bitten and bruised all over, he led the hounds away. The little bear was later caught, but the hunter did not kill it because of its cuteness and innocence and imprisoned it, while the big bear was waiting for an opportunity in the dark to give his life to save his own kind. In the early morning, the hunters split up and waited for the big bear to be caught. Unexpectedly, the big male bear was waiting for them. The big bear took advantage of a hunter to drink water without a gun, and pounced gently and silently, and the hunter was paralyzed with fright. But the big bear just frightened him, and then left, do animals also know how to forgive and have compassion? In the end, the little bear met the leopard. It roared for the first time in his life. He didn't expect to frighten the leopard away. Who knew that the big bear was roaring behind it, and the big bear saved the little bear again.

The whole film has only a few lines of dialogue, and tells a story entirely in the form of a documentary. With the bear as the protagonist, it tells the story of nature, and various animals appear in the film, such as butterflies, squirrels, bees, frogs, etc. The movie starts to give people a deep impression and is a depiction of the happy life of the bear: living with his mother, learning all the survival skills that the mother bear taught him, that is, how to obtain honey; even, York has not yet reached the age of learning, only Just enjoy what the mother bear gives it. Play, eat, drink, sleep; all it has to master is to grow up healthy and happy first. Several dreams of the little bear are very interesting. For example, driven by hunger, he finally left the mother bear's carcass and went out to find food by himself. But it has no way to prey at all, and even a tiny frog can bring it nightmares all night—the loss of a loved one, the lack of food, the fear of falling into the water, the loss of security, and the confusion that makes it overwhelmed The road ahead, so that little York's nightmares are full of panic, dreaming of all kinds of strange frogs.

As human beings, would we selflessly help an orphan like a bear? Do you sacrifice your life as you would your own children? Aren't we drinking animals comparable? People have wisdom, science, and technology, but gradually lose the tenacious, simple and selfless love that nature has given us. Forgiveness; Big Bear forgave Tom, who had hurt him, and York, the helpless; Tom also forgave Big Bear, who broke his leg and killed his dog, and Little Bear, who was helpless York; what about York? In this movie, he almost turned into an angel, even though it is the weakest one, but it is the one who influences the bear and Tom who are surrounded by it without exception. The mighty bear and Tom with the musket are always hurting and conflicting with each other; if the bear is a symbol of primitive savage power, Tom is a symbol of modern civilization, no matter how powerful they are, no matter what the relationship between them is. Fighting, the frail Yorkie bear is a symbol that influences these two forces and that he reconciles them. Whether it's Big Bear's giant claws or Tom's musket, they can easily kill Little Bear York, but in the end they never hurt Little Bear York at all - not Little Bear York's strength, but Little Bear York's weakness. all of these. Civilization cannot influence savagery, and savagery cannot influence civilization; what really influences both is the feeling of weakness that both of them have in common. Powerful, in this movie we can't tell whether Tom who is grabbing is more powerful, or the powerful minions of the giant bear are more powerful; the two are the power of the civilized world and the power of the wild world. However, both of them have their weak points - that is the bear York. Of course, it cannot be said that the vitality of bears is stronger than that of humans. Even without the existence of humans, the natural world is not desolate. It has mysteries and mysteries, sublime and majestic that cannot be understood by human beings; it has fables that are more real, more carefree, helpless, and more miserable than human beings; it symbolizes the strength, strength, and toughness of all life, and it exists. Simple, broad and perfect; it shows the charm of life and nature, as well as a great power.

What this film expresses is a kind of forgiveness and coexistence under the main theme of grand harmony. Whether it's between Little Bear and a strange bear, or Tom the hunter trying to kill Big Bear, or Big Bear letting him go when he could have killed him, or Tom putting his shotgun in the sky after Big Bear let him go The empty gun wanted to drive the big bear away from the dangerous situation, or Tom released the little bear to nature and Ming Jin stopped hunting and so on. What the director Jacques expressed in all these scenes was peaceful coexistence under the main theme of harmony. Sharing the Earth theme song; and because he puts the main point of view on animals, he minimizes the elements that might offend us. The compassion of animals; the compassion of human beings; after a confrontation full of gunpowder flavors, the two have a metaphysical collision, and then there is the grand harmony scene at the end of the film.

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The Bear quotes

  • Bill: You see, I don't like to ask folks questions; everyone has a secret side. By God, that's the way it should be.

  • [last lines]

    Tom: [shooing the bear cub away] Good luck, little fella.

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