What is the box monster? They are a group of creatures that are different from humans in appearance. They live under the Cheese Bridge. They use boxes as their clothes, like to use boxes as disguise, and use boxes as their mobile bedroom.
Box monsters are naturally timid and only come out at night to search for "usable" things in the garbage dump. Of course, they will also oil the doors that creak. They are a group of natural engineers (from the back, they seem to have contact with the inventor Bernard Shaw, or they may have been taught by him), they like to use these things found in the trash to make all kinds of things that make life easier tool.
People who are familiar with box monsters naturally know that they are harmless, but they are strange-looking and timid like a mouse. When they see people, they will only get into the box, hide, and never make public contact with humans. Therefore, the people at Cheese Bridge thought that the box monster would eat people. Of course, this is all thanks to the "box monster terminator" Snacher, who claimed that the box monster kidnapped the Bernard Shaw child and ate the child.
If it was just a lie, many people would not take it to heart. Therefore, Snacher also pretends to be a fashion girl, every year on "Bernard Shaw's Child Disappearance Day", he performed a story he made up.
Thus, we can see how "excited" the crowd was when Snacher came to the Lord's door with the egg lay disguised as a box monster, and was about to execute the egg lay.
Of course, justice cannot defeat evil, and the two followers who believed in this were also at the last moment, the betrayed Snacher. Finally, Snacher was defeated, and the box monster lived in the earthly world.
Just sort out the general plot and elements casually, there are many omissions.
Some people describe the box monsters as a disadvantaged group, equivalent to scavengers, while Snacher is fooling the public. I say this, of course, from the perspective of our own Chinese citizens. Many people probably think that it is also a good idea. But in fact, it ignores the indoctrination of consciousness that Americans value.
Box monsters are indeed at a disadvantage, and they are indeed people at the bottom of society (all living underground, can they not be the bottom?), but they have an important feature, which is what I mean by "them" instead of them: box monsters They are non-human beings, in other words, highly intelligent humanoids, which is why they are called "weirds".
In other words, this setting shows that the contradiction does not only come from two classes, but two races.
Think about the unarmed black young man who was shot down by the American police, and it is not difficult to make such a guess if you connect with the long history of racial discrimination in the United States and the political correctness of anti-racism.
Yes, this is why the Lord was so nervous when he heard that the box monster would steal his cheese in the future, and even promised to grant Snache a white hat: they don’t care whether the box monster hurts the residents, but they don’t allow minorities. Come to share power.
It is precisely this point that Snacher has mastered that he dares to make a deal with the Lord so boldly. Of course, he has not only this, but also the "secret of the box monster": these timid underground creatures will only shrink into the box when encountering enemies, and capture them without any effort or danger.
Yes, this film is not purely anti-racism. In those absurd plots, he not only satirizes the stupid and selfish white hats, but also awakens the box monsters who dare not resist or even dare to escape.
You see, the power center in the town is the cheese tasting room of the Lord's house. When the white hats are discussing matters, they often leave things behind and clamor to cut the cheese first.
Even these white hats bought a brie cheese with the money raised to build a new children's hospital.
Of course, they are not only so faint, but also exceptionally stupid. An ugly woman pretending to be an ugly man was regarded as a fashion girl by these white hats, and she was still enthusiastically sought after by these white hats.
Such an incompetent stupid man, when Snacher wanted to take the white hat, claimed that he obtained the white hat by virtue of "courage", "chivalry" and "rich". This is so absurd and ironic.
Of course, the box blame themselves are not much better, how timid are they? Even the little girl ran to the ground and yelled at them twice, she would shrink into the cardboard box in fright, as if it were safe.
This has to make people contact the tragic experience of black slaves in the past few hundred years, and the force that can oppress them for so long is not a strong boat and a gun, but a notion that they dare not resist. From generation to generation, the rebels became lonely ghosts, while those who stalked alive reproduced slaves.
I can't imagine that box monsters with terrible appearance can be so docile. When others catch them, they do nothing except run or pretend to be cartons. Unfortunately, they are caught without any effort. The box monsters that have not been taken away live as usual like people who have nothing to do, while the box monsters that have been taken away are in that abandoned factory, very hard to create the terrible robot at the end of the credits for the villain.
It was not until one day that the little boy gave them a speech without depth that they finally knew how to escape.
It's so absurd, but don't we realize their sadness?
Snacher’s absurdity is even more obvious. He is a person who is allergic to cheese. However, in order to become an upper class society, he still has to pretend to be able to eat, know how to eat, and even love cheese, and he eats cheese. After that, he looked even more like a weird than a box monster.
Snatcher tried so hard to dream, but when a person's dream is not good at all, and even hurts himself, clinging to the dream becomes a joke.
Regardless of Snacher’s unscrupulous means, from the perspective of the ridiculous character setting of cheese allergy, we should wake up, when we are faced with high desires and want something very much, will we also enter this kind of self-prediction? What about the trap?
And Snacher's two helpers were mocking those who claim to be righteous. Of course, they are not stubborn. Many times they have questioned whether they are doing justice, but no one points them out righteously. They naturally think that they are righteous, and the box monster is evil. , No matter what you do to the box monster, it is justice and will never be excessive.
Of course, don’t forget those who were frightened by Snacher, and the residents of Cheese Bridge who were exposed to Snacher without guilt. We spectators, onlookers, are probably the most similar to them. For those of us who often don’t think about ourselves and can’t find the truth from the purpose of others’ speeches, why don’t we be easily coerced away and forgive our mistakes easily?
Think about it the other way around, since the Lord mentions election time and time again, isn't the reason why their incompetent and stupid white hats exist because of the blind obedience of these residents!
Who can stay out of it?
There are not many jokes in the story. Many places appear dark, and the egg mate, who grew up with the box monster, can speak English, which is actually quite buggy. But if you think about these heart-wrenching box monsters, and the poor Cheese Bridge residents, and then look at the innocent and brave Egg Singer and Winnie, you will suddenly feel that there is light and warmth in the world.
Tolerance and understanding, harmony but difference, are the cornerstones of civilization. Repulsion and killing will be like a self-destructed Snacher, who will perish on his own.
As for the white hats, perhaps as long as there is still cheese one day, they cannot refuse their existence.
In general, this is a sincere stop-motion cartoon, and the story is more humorous than laughing. I wonder if the kids who have watched this film can treat the "box monsters" in their lives well?
In my lifetime, I am always hopeful and willing to believe.
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