This is an environmental protection fable told to children, but the things to be expressed are more complicated, so the screenwriter used a straightforward expression method. This, as adults, we should tolerate. The part for adults to see is very obscure, and most people may not be able to see it! As I said, I think this movie expresses a super simple "truth": women change the world through men. Why?
First of all, the protagonist of the story, Ted (who seems to be in junior high school), has been living with his family in a "perfect" plastic town - there is no tree in this town, and you can't see an inch of dirt - living happily until he entered adolescence when he fell in love with the big girl Audrey. Audrey's wish was to see a real tree. Ted was worried because of this "simple" but "unrealistic" dream, but his grandma told him some "oracles" about the tree, pointing him in the direction of pursuing his dream. Here, we see the germination and practice of dreams. It was Audrey, the girl who made the dream germinate, and the grandmother of the boy who pushed the dream into practice.
So he bravely embarked on a thrilling adventure.
It's an understatement to say it's an adventure. He had to ride the wheelbarrow up the winding stairs to the empty exit in the iron wall, and then through the dark, stinky moat through the winding gut path (and no guardrails). The river water is the domestic wastewater of the residents of the plastic town, mixed with industrial waste, and it is water that emits the light of death and is black as mud—a death swamp that you don’t want to come out of if you fall into it. There are no signs of life here. When he finally got out of the moat, he found that the outside was even more desolate: the land was gray, the sky was gray and foggy, and there were no birds, no animals, and no plants. The whole was abandoned land, the Lost Garden. The boy Ted gritted his teeth and stepped forward bravely. He was going to the legendary mysterious man and asked him how to have a tree. He also brought the gift that his grandmother told him: a snail with a beard! The mysterious man told him the beginning of the story, telling him that a young man came to this magical and beautiful land full of furry, colorful Gorgeous lollipop-shaped trees (some people think that these trees are too distorted, but I think this is the greatest expression of childlike innocence. The fairy tale world does not need to be too realistic. Surreal is also a kind of reality). At this point, the boy Ted interrupts the You-Know-Who's story, which annoys the You-Know-Who. The mysterious man told him to continue tomorrow. This is a temptation. Because, the next day, when Ted passed by again, the mysterious man said clearly: "Boy, if you do something stupid the first time, it's okay because you are a boy! But the second time you do something stupid It must be because of a girl." (The relationship between the dream and the woman was clarified again.) At the same time, the mysterious man decided to tell him the ins and outs of the story to further test his determination and love.
Here I have to introduce the mysterious man's mother, a very shocking but crucial role who has only appeared four times. She was always dressed up in stylish furs and high heels, sarcastic, and fond of the rich. The mysterious person is probably the youngest or second child in the family. When he left home with a dream when he was young, he promised his mother that he would succeed. Instead of comforting him, his mother scoffed at him: "It's not surprising if you don't succeed!" This is his first appearance. The second time was that the velvet fabric developed by the mysterious man was welcomed and the orders increased. He called his family to come and help. His mother, the classic, a fashionable and acerbic mother who loves the poor and loves the rich, drove a family of old and young, seven aunts and eight aunts over in an RV. As soon as she got out of the car, she directed his brothers to do things, while she hugged the mysterious man, claiming to be his favorite child. In her third appearance, she told the mysterious man that the efficiency of picking tree wool by hand was too inefficient, so he broke the agreement with Old Reis (the protector of trees) and started cutting down trees. To please his mother, the mysterious man agreed. The fourth time, and the last time, the mysterious man cut down all the trees, he had no money to earn, and all his friends left him, so his mother drove the RV to pat her buttocks as she came. When the other family members left, they said, "You disappointed me!" And in front of the mysterious man, they turned to the other son and said, "Now you are my favorite son!" Go away, leaving the mysterious man alone and turning him into a legend.
Here, it is not difficult for us to see that the dream of the mysterious man is his mother's dream: to make money, to make a lot of money, to make more money. This dream belonged to his mother, and it was also rooted in his heart by his mother when he was young. Other than that, his dream is simple: to make his mother happy, to get her approval (to compete with the other brothers). But in fact, he does not have a dream that he must insist on (selling velvet fabrics is just a means for him to make money. Refer to the paragraph when he went to the market to sell and was thrown eggs for several days in a row, so he raised his hand in anger. The plot where the fruits of labor are discarded). Therefore, he does not know why he still fails in the end. It's a freaking dream, isn't it? But it still changed the face of the world. This is a microcosm of the entire modern human being: to make money, he does not hesitate to destroy the environment and uses various pretexts recklessly and opportunistically. In a money-first philosophy, everything else is irrelevant and there are no principles to speak of. Here, we can see that it is the mother who sows the seeds of dreams in the hearts of children.
A dream must start from the heart, so it will become a dream so that it can be practiced and even realized. The third point just made: mothers sow the seeds of dreams in their children. I now use the story in the play to prove it again: the protagonist, Ted's mother, is an amiable middle-aged woman (the opposite character of Mystery Man's mother), and his grandma is even more kind and lovely. Granny. The grandmother has a story about the "tree grandmother", which she told her daughter lot, the mother of the protagonist. Therefore, the protagonist's mother also likes trees very much, and the trees in her family are often changed into new patterns. Although it is a plastic tree, it has cultivated a relationship with the tree for the protagonist Ted. So, until later, when Audrey painted the yard with beautiful legendary trees, he would be amazed, and at the same time decided to grant Audrey's wish.
The mysterious man spent a few days telling stories to Ted, and Ted listened patiently. From the beginning of the two people's unfamiliar and confrontational state, they became familiar with friends later. We see that to realize our dreams, we must have sincerity, patience, and love. Love your dreams and the people who help you achieve them so you can get more help. Ted finally got the last seed. At this point, this dream has finally been half accomplished.
If Ted hadn't been exposed to "trees" since he was a child, his grandmother hadn't told him stories about "trees", and his mother hadn't created a life with "trees" for him, he probably wouldn't have been so happy and receptive to Austria. Deli's dream, and fight for it? The power of this dream is so powerful that when Ted is threatened and blocked by the most powerful men in town, the fresh air tycoon and the mighty bodyguard, he perseveres and bravely pursues himself. dream, and fearlessly spread the concept of a healthier life to everyone - to have a tree, to plant a tree! Even if it is difficult to find an inch of black soil on the ground!
This is of course another "dream to change the world" film. Just use another vision here to tell us the relationship between dreams, the world, and women. Women influence all stages of a man's dream, so I think, in addition to the environmental theme, this film has a deeper theme: be kind to women, be kind to girls! Because one day she will change the world!
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