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I'm sure you must have seen or heard someone talk about this movie.
A chatty sloth.
A snarky mammoth.
A saber-toothed tiger with a ghostly heart but an unshakable conscience.
There is also a squirrel who is always out of the plot and keeps running for a pinenut that can never be eaten.
From the point of view of animals, the encounter of the four of them is more like a cruel demonstration of natural laws.
And from a human point of view, their world is so wonderful and interesting.
This is the animated film "Ice Age" released in 2002.
At the time, the movie was a real hit.
In its three weeks of release, it has grossed more than $100 million at the box office.
And this purely digital animated film, not only because of the detailed restoration of the characters in the work, but also the transmission of the universal values and worldview it contains, has created the film's enduring reputation.
To this day, Ice Age's rating remains at 8.5.
In fact, from a practical point of view, it is impossible for these animals to live in the same period.
But this does not prevent us from seeing these animals as a whole, to perceive the ice age that seems far away from us, full of unknowns and dangers.
As Mammoth said in the film, everyone is a collective.
This sentence has two meanings:
At the critical moment when it was about to fall into the magma, the mammoth, regardless of his life, rescued the "partner" saber-toothed tiger that had traveled with it.
Therefore, it is not inappropriate for the mammoth to classify the saber-toothed tiger as a collective.
Another meaning of this sentence is a metaphor for a value concept of the whole film.
The Earth in the Ice Age was not divided into countries and regions.
Naturally, there is no clear racial distinction.
The endless migratory procession at the beginning of the film contains countless ancient animal groups.
From the perspective of the long river of time, the evolution of life is long and uninteresting. All biological groups can meet on the earth, no matter the order, in fact, they can be regarded as part of the collective earth.
Therefore, "Ice Age" uses a light and pleasant story carrier to lead us to appreciate the power of life. It also uses this as a starting point to explore the relationship between human beings, animals and nature.
As an animated film mainly featuring ancient animals, there is one character in the film that cannot be ignored.
He is a human being in infancy, the child of hunters in ancient times.
The whole film revolves around the story of three animals, the sloth, the mammoth, and the saber-toothed tiger, escorting the human children back to the human side through the glacier.
Through this magical adventure along the way, racial reconciliation between humans and animals, with a seemingly perfect solution, resolves irreconcilable contradictions in the real world.
The exploration of civilization in human society is actually a game of power between human beings, nature and animals.
Over the years, human beings have destroyed the nature of the earth and the news of killing animals has emerged one after another.
And nature's revenge on human society has never stopped.
Sandstorms, tsunamis, earthquakes, plagues, etc., seem to have become the norm on the earth.
2020 has not been peaceful from the beginning. The new crown virus may once again let the world, at least all China, see the insignificance of human beings and the horror of wild animals in a short period of time.
The Internet is full of loud calls for rejecting game, and major platforms and bloggers have gone viral and reposted their denunciations of "betrayers".
The text is full of affection and indignation, once again standing from the perspective of human beings, telling the eternal philosophy of human existence - living in harmony with nature.
But the essence of human beings is also forgetting.
Because of the momentary pain, I am willing to stand up and wave the flag and shout, and because of the momentary joy, I turn a blind eye to everything around me.
Therefore, we like to occasionally dig out some classic works and read the universal philosophy in them, because our hearts are touched, and then we respond to their thematic calls.
It is irrefutable that Western countries have gone farther than China in their speculation on these people and nature.
Because they experienced the social-industrial revolution early and passed the mode of resource plundering between man and nature.
Full of warmth and lust, and began to pursue spiritual sublimation.
They found that human beings could not completely change their nature from beginning to end, but they entered the age of civilization and began to wrap themselves in spirit.
Therefore, foreign works of art are always endowed with various detached spirits to entertain themselves.
The same goes for movies.
Hollywood-style animated films especially like to integrate this universal spirit of exploring the harmonious coexistence between man and nature (animals) into animated films.
It turns out that the 2D animation world needs to be friendly and soft, abandoning the social elements (common objects, familiar human forms, colors, light, etc.) that the human senses are familiar with in the 3D world.
Therefore, it is easier for the audience to let go of their psychological guards, escape from the boring real society for a short time, accept the beauty and touching brought by the animation world, and achieve spiritual sublimation.
At the same time, animation works also provide conditions for cross-species communication. Compared with live-action movies, animated movies can give animals image characteristics that are very close to human thinking according to human wishes.
Screenshot from "Fantasy Forest"
Part of the human mind is emotional.
Therefore, after more than ten years, when we revisit this film again, we will still laugh because of the animal characters in the film that are very human-like, and will also reveal profound meaning to the universal philosophy that is unintentionally provocative in the film. thinking look.
But it is impossible for human beings to admit that they are wrong, just like animated movies, although beautiful, can easily erase the cruelty behind them.
"Ice Age" is a very healing movie. The animals' cute dialogues, heart-warming behaviors, mutual support and solidarity, and the transformation from evil to good are all so familiar.
Of course I am familiar, because these are part of human character.
What we cannot ignore is that the saber-toothed tigers, the villains in the film, are in danger because they were hunted by the hunter group.
That snarky mammoth is actually a large animal that is never left alone in other people's mouths. Because of being attacked by humans, it is also faced with what humans often say "wives are separated and families are destroyed."
However, the final result was that the saber-toothed tiger, which was originally ordered to kill the child, finally "abandoned evil and turned to good" and betrayed its own ethnic group.
The woolly mammoth, who originally only wanted to wander alone, became a father and guard and brought the child back.
Saber-toothed tiger once asked them, send the child back, he will become a hunter when he grows up, who do you think he will hunt?
Sloth said: Maybe save him and he won't be a hunter.
The saber-toothed tiger laughed at it: yeah, maybe he'll grow fur and a long neck and call you mom.
The reality is so cruel. Humans are now proficient in influencing the ethnic group in their own way, but human beings have only gained a fleeting touch.
This moving may come from the animal images in the movie that look very much like ourselves, but for the animal field, we have never stopped moving forward.
There is a very interesting clip in "Ice Age". On the way back, a group of mammoths escorted the child back through an ice cave.
With the help of the sloth's perspective, an element beyond the current era is restored.
There are piranhas that used to be ferocious in the deep sea, the evolution of sloths, dinosaurs, and even a spaceship-like thing.
The appearance of these objects, in a surreal way, condensed the trajectory of life on earth in this ice cave corridor.
From ancient times to the future, it may be said that what the mammoths experienced is the future.
This earth, which has been destroyed by human beings, is experiencing another ice age, and its fate is like reincarnation, returning to its original appearance again.
In this way, it is indeed as stated in the film that we are all a collective.
However, even after such a long time, human beings have never changed their essence.
"Ice Age" has left us a space for imagination, the squirrel who is always chasing pine nuts is like a human who is chasing desire.
Over and over again, the squirrel doesn't get tired.
Instead, squirrels later traveled all over the universe.
Will the boundary of desire be wider than the universe?
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