The plot of the film can be written like this: My name is Cody, I am a penguin, a penguin who can surf, this is my story. When I first met Big Z, the surfing legend I was just a little penguin who didn't know anything before. Since I put on the Z necklace, my dream is to become a surfer like him. But I was useless until I was 17 years old, I could only practice alone, and practice constantly. But then my opportunity came. I had a chance to participate in a competition. I encountered Z who was still living in seclusion. Me. By the way, I also met a beautiful penguin, she is really beautiful, really. Want to give this story a name? Impossible is nothing...The
plot is so simple, interspersed with the friendship between companions, a little sweet love, and more importantly, a so-called loser has strengthened his faith after experiencing difficulties and conflicts, and has matured and finally achieved success. The inspirational story of victory, although a bit clichéd, still has the power to move people's hearts. The point is that when this cliché story happens to a group of cute little animals, it seems that people have no reason not to like it. When almost all popular sports have been performed, when humans are always active in movies as the protagonist, Surf and Penguin tell you that as long as you are creative and dare to think, you will always find areas that are not involved, that is That said, new ideas always exist. Therefore, even if the plot is clichéd and the realm is not elevated, in this novel and creative story, in the waves, everything is naturally accepted.
The shaking camera, the microphone extending into the lens, the director’s question, the confession of the actor during the interview, etc., all of this runs through the entire film from the beginning of the film. It tries to tell you that this is a documentary, but this hint seems to be different. Not very strong, because watching you will be attracted by the plot, and forget that this seems to be an autobiographical movie or something else. The documentary has become a framework. It adopts a storytelling method that simply outlines the growth experience of the protagonist in the background of the story. The advantage of this is that everything appears smooth and smooth. I like the framework of this documentary because it looks so real. The cutscenes of the TV show it does are even the same as ESPN's NBA broadcast. The interviews it does are like the bridges in real life, which are commonplace. But when the ordinary bridges in life are performed by a group of penguins or cute little animals such as chickens and birds, the simple and effective comedy effect comes out, and it becomes gushing at once. Out, the jokes can't be collected anymore.
I should mention the music of the film. It started with Green Day’s Holiday, and the atmosphere came out immediately. The spirit of watching the movie was immediately mobilized, and the melody of the subsequent songs was very good, but the punk style of pop was not only absent. Let the music be too noisy and affect the plot, but it matches the plot very well, cheerful and not noisy, and it is just right.
In fact, wanting to be a successful person does not mean how many substantive victories are achieved. What is more important is the affirmation and victory of oneself. There is no opponent that is harder to defeat than oneself, and there is no one that is more suitable to be your own opponent. So, before you have the ability to defeat others, learn to affirm yourself. When you have defeated yourself, you can also say that you have conquered the world.
In the film, Z turned out to live in seclusion in order to escape failure. Z gave up his beloved surfing. Little Cody resolutely removed the Z necklace that accompanied him when he grew up. Because Z went on his own path, he couldn’t. Living in the world of Z, he had to find his own way, so he went to another self who only believed in himself with the self who always hoped and depended on others in the past, and then he succeeded.
So, like the little penguin, take a surfboard, rush to your own way, rush to your own tomorrow.
Quite inspirational.
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