Human and Nature

Kyra 2022-04-21 09:03:27

"The Mermaid" is an environmental-themed comedy, and the whole movie is based on funny. It tells the story of the mermaid Shan carrying the fate of her family to stop and kill the rich businessman Xuan. Xuan's real estate plans and reclamation projects seriously threaten the mermaid family living on the seabed. During the fight between the two, the mermaid was reluctant to kill Xuan, and Xuan also gave up the reclamation project because he fell in love with Shan, so that the mermaid group returned to the sea. . The film conveys a message to us human beings through vivid storylines: protect the natural ecological environment, respect life, respect nature, harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and coexistence between man and other creatures. This shows that the film director Stephen Chow is a director with a certain level of consciousness and a certain sense of social responsibility. He is using his films to awaken human beings to protect our earth home, protect our earth's ecological environment, and maintain the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and between man and other creatures. Humans are not the only ones on earth, there are many other species of organisms unknown to human beings. The earth is the homeland of human beings, and it is also the common homeland of all kinds of creatures. We humans should respect other life and not kill other creatures for our own benefit. There is a line in the film that made a deep impression on me: If there is not a grain of clean water or a trace of fresh air on the earth, what is the use of making more money? The lines are probably like this. This is indeed the case. If one day there will be no more clean water on the earth, and the air quality will no longer be suitable for human survival, what is the use of earning thousands of dollars of wealth.

The personality characteristics of the male protagonist and his partners in the film also vividly outline the character characteristics of some wealthy people nowadays. They are rich, arrogant and domineering, arrogant, do whatever they want, mean, jealous, greedy, lustful, disrespectful. The personality of others, the disregard of social morality and morality for the sake of money, the indiscriminate killing of innocents, the brutality of violence, and the inability to tolerate anything but interests in their hearts. Although the plot and characters of the movie are fictitious, they do reflect a corner of the current real society, and deeply portray the true faces of some so-called wealthy celebrities in contemporary society. Isn't the reason why our earth's environment and earth's resources are exhausted and polluted as they are today because there are too many people like this? People’s hearts are murderous, greedy, lustful, tyrannical, vicious, people’s hearts, if human beings are not purified, the environment of the earth will continue to deteriorate. At that time, it is estimated that the fate of mankind will be like a mermaid group. Generally nowhere. The difference is that the mermaid is harmed by humans, while humans are killing themselves.

There are so many hilarious scenes and lines throughout the film, and I didn't find it funny at all throughout. It's not that the film itself lacks funny scenes, or that the actors and characters lack funny artistic accomplishment. In the eyes of some people, such a film may be just a funny movie, but in my eyes, it really reflects the real social life, environmental concerns and degeneration of people. I sincerely hope that moviegoers can ignore the superficial visual effects and sensory enjoyment, and attentively experience the real information that the director wants to convey, awaken our inner consciousness, and seriously reflect on our own problems and environmental problems. It is not difficult to find that in the current society, some conscious people are using their practical actions to inform and awaken mankind: protect the environment, protect the earth, protect the ecological balance, and love all living beings. This is our common mission as human beings on earth. I hope that we human beings can realize as soon as possible that we human beings are in the midst of the environmental crisis of the earth. Your awakening and awareness are the guarantee for the continuation of human civilization.

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The Mermaid quotes

  • Uncle Rich: [speaking to Liu Xuan] Your self-immolation will illuminate us!

  • Mermaid: [Speaking to Shan] Very flat chested. Like they were run over by a steamroller.

    Shan: [soft fake laugh] Thank you.