At that time, after watching "Crazy Primitives 2", my friend said that she felt that the film had a lot to talk about, but she didn't know where to start.
When I finished watching "Legend of the Dragon", I also felt that there were a lot of things to talk about, and what I wanted to talk about was something in common with "Crazy".
"Crazy" and "Xun" are separated from the familiar set of things in Western civilization in terms of role identity and story background structure, so it is inevitable that there will be a kind of arrogant gaze that we often see in the West: they use a kind of With a curious vision, he regards Eastern and African things as mysterious, and intervenes as a scholar in an attempt to find the commonalities of foreign civilizations.
This kind of Western gaze is almost absent in "Frozen", because the cultural background of "Ice" is their own.
At the same time, today, when all ethnic groups continue to call for equality of status and status, Disney has launched this kind of animation based on other civilizations, and the final heights raised are all human beings coexisting on an equal footing, trusting each other, and hand in hand to build a utopia. This can be said to be very advanced with the times.
But you can hardly say that this is not hypocritical. Just like in a class, someone became the monitor by improper means. After he sat and enjoyed the benefits for a period of time, other students in the class became increasingly dissatisfied with him. At this time, he felt that his position was unstable, so he stood. Come out and say, we want to unite, I am just like you, all students.
Of course, I will talk more about this topic later.
Another major point of the film's progress with the times is that everyone will find that feminism is getting more and more attention. Women are no longer vassals of men, and the establishment of their identity value no longer needs the prince’s marriage proposal to be recognized. They can also fight hard and fight on one side to get the men’s kneeling and obedience.
This is worthy of recognition.
The content of the film is the kind of adventure theme that everyone is familiar with.
Five hundred years ago, the desire of mankind gave birth to the black demon. Whether it is a human or a dragon, it will be petrified when it encounters a black demon. So all the magic power of all Shenlong collections formed into a crystal, and Shenlong Xisu used this crystal to save the world, but she herself fell into the river and disappeared.
In the five hundred years after that, humans were divided into several tribes, and they attacked each other just to compete for crystals. Raya and his father guarded the crystal together. However, because Raya believed in Namali, who was a split clan, the crystal shattered and the Dark Demon came back. Every tribe took a crystal and wanted to use it to protect its tribe.
But only when the crystal is truly restored can the world return to peace. So Raya embarked on an adventure to find the dragon Xisu and gather the crystals...
Disney has its own mature routines, adding a little innovation to this, and incorporating a little Southeast Asian national characteristics, can add a lot to the whole movie.
Some people say that this is a hodgepodge of Eastern culture. In fact, I think it’s okay. Without talking about Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, it would be difficult for you to define it by such things as “Eastern culture”. Said that its theme is oriented to the East, but I think its theme is oriented to all mankind.
Let me talk about the meaning of Shenlong first.
I see some people say that Shenlong is a belief. At the end of the film, all different ethnic groups are united under one belief. I personally do not agree with this statement. In other words, this is part of the meaning of the Shenlong, and the other part, I think it is a supplement to the human image.
We all know what a good human quality should be, but we can't do it. Selfishness, suspicion, mutual hostility, and mutual arguing are skills that we are all familiar with when we survive in society. It’s said that human nature is complicated, how complicated is human nature, let’s put it this way, when everyone laughed the most in this game I saw, it was Sisu who said that he would bring a small gift for the partial separation, and then the two became good friends and held hands. Run that place in the sunset.
What are you laughing at? Because everyone knows that she thinks too simple. It is the silly people in our lives who suddenly receive gifts from others and know to remain vigilant, not to mention that the split-heads are the most cunning in the setting of the film.
So in order to avoid some unnecessary embarrassment, the film focuses all the goodness on dragons rather than humans. This kind of technique is actually not uncommon. Only by alienating good qualities into others will human beings see their own problems more clearly.
The image of Xisu is perfect, whether it is the god in Western civilization or the dragon in our culture, they all act as a deterrent. It's the existence that makes people fearful, so they don't dare to do evil.
But as soon as Xisu appeared, you felt that she was too kind, as kind as your own sister. Moreover, she also carries innocence that is incompatible with human society, which is the "trust" that is repeatedly emphasized in the film. So I denied it earlier. Shenlong exists as a "faith", and I think she exists as a demon mirror that reflects the ugly human nature.
In fact, even if there is no film appealing here, it is easy for us to know what the world of Great Harmony in the world is like, but is it so easy for us to believe it? If Hitler put down his butcher knife when he was killing him, and said you come to trust me, forgive me, let us unite to build a happy world, would anyone believe him? The root of hatred must be cut off with the sword of revenge.
Not to mention that we will never be able to achieve equal distribution of resources. Even if it is mandatory one day, human nature will always feel that we should divide more.
So the truth is always easy to say, but so difficult to do.
Of course, cartoons always give children courage and confidence. We always live our lives in tatters and fragments, and then turn our heads and say that our hope lies in the children. So I told the child about the fairy tale, kissed the child’s angelic face every night before going to bed, and silently prayed that the child would become a brave and upright person in the future.
Then the child grows up and finds that the world is not like what parents read to them from fairy tale books, or the parents find that they can no longer protect the child, so the child becomes a complex adult in despair again and again-if it is early Knowing that this is the case, then why not teach children complicated things in the first place?
Perhaps this is us humans, a complex of despair and hope.
Just as I wrote up to this point, readers should have seen my pessimism long ago, but I still hope that one day in the future we can really run hand in hand in the sunset happily. Why should I feel sorry for myself? Of course I hope we have a better tomorrow!
We all hope to rebuild a paradise on top of the ruins, but what is most afraid is that we finally rebuilt a ruin on top of the ruins.
Finally decided to open his own public account: Imagine Heaven.
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