so be it

Chloe 2022-04-20 09:01:16

Sorry to say something you don't like to hear again. . . It's always so embarrassing. But that's the way Disney movies are, and even Pixar can't save it. . . A politically correct cliché that isn't really chicken soup, it's just a hot bath for the chicken, and the rest of the bath water can be used to cook frogs (by the way, I think the fable of boiling frogs in warm water is pure nonsense , is completely out of biological principles - this judgment from my childhood and years of life experience with frogs, believe it or not) seems to have gone too far.

In fact, in the middle of the film, I thought that Disney had changed his temper, and finally started to shoot some realistic works. Yes, I mean the bearded barber in the middle barber shop who mentioned that his daughter's illness changed his life. The career choice of the track and the part where the protagonist in the tailor's shop said "because your father has me supporting him, but you don't". . . However, it didn't. After that, Disney returned to its usual high-profile tone of smearing mud and singing, and began to pour the audience into a fascination, persuading you to believe in that set of things that even the screenwriters themselves don't believe. However, in the end, the collective of quantum mechanical beings Stealth still leaks the screenwriter's "better dead than alive", "give one more chance" and the philistine values ​​they want to oppose with this film in the definition of what counts as success. . . . . . How screwy?

In fact, it is not necessary to spend more than 100 minutes to make such an animated feature film to sing a high-profile, so it is so troublesome, it is nothing more than two rhetoric, one sentence is called "There is only one true heroism in the world, blah blah blah... . . . "You must all be familiar with the following words than me. Well, this sentence was said by Romain Rolland. I think the words that can be said in less than ten seconds are more exciting than this movie in the early 100 minutes. And the only person who really did this in the whole movie was the one who played the telescopic horn? Elastic number? Piston number? Pull number? anyway, please excuse my ignorance in instrumentalism, it's the asian girl playing that horn on the stairs anyway, that's why I gave this show two stars. . . . . .

Oh, there is another rhetoric that I didn't say. The second sentence was said by a monk in the Tang Dynasty, when explaining to a high official what "Dao" (actually the true meaning of life, I understand it) He said something called "The cloud is in the blue sky and the water is in the bottle". It is said that after hearing this sentence, the high official said, "The dark room has become clear, and the doubts are over." This is called spark, right?

I guess most of the people who watched this movie were social animals. If it wasn't for social animals, he would have no feelings and would not understand. Just like Marie Antoinette couldn't understand why some people couldn't eat bread or cakes, Sima Zhong couldn't understand that everyone was getting hungry. Why don't you eat meat soup when you die, this is definitely not a problem of IQ, really, I always feel that this is not a problem of IQ, but a problem of social stratification, but when your life is pathetic and hopeless like the protagonist, (Actually, it’s hard to say that the protagonist’s life is much better than Song Bingyi, who plays placards on the street corner, and more than half of the people in the film. The job is stable and the living conditions are good. There are a bunch of relatives and friends around. What more do you want a bike in New York, my friend?) Can you really not be chasing the life you want? Well, that depends on what you want. Or in Romain Rolland's "John Christopher", "Don't think about a year or ten years from now. You have to think about today. Put your theories aside. All theories, even about morality, are It's bad, stupid, and harmful to people. Don't use violence to squeeze life. Let's talk about it first. Have a reverent attitude to each day. Love it, respect it, especially not insult it , hinder its prosperity and growth. Even on a dark and gloomy day like today, you have to love. You don't have to worry. Just watch. It is winter now, and everything is asleep. The earth will wake up in the future. All you need is Be as patient as the earth is. You have to be religious, you have to wait. If you are good, everything will be fine. If you are not, if you are weak, if you are unsuccessful, you should be happy Because that means you can't go any further. Why do you have more hope? Why do you grieve for what you can't do? A person should do what he can do." - This is called the cloud in the blue sky In the bottle, the Tang Dynasty monks outperformed Romain Rolland in simplicity, as I understand it.

In fact, if I don't deliberately pull the lever, I can quite understand what the screenwriter wants to say. The world is already beautiful, and everything that appears in front of us is worth cherishing and dumping. I often send such words in the wild. Admiration, all kinds of good things that happen by chance in the world also make me inexplicably happy. These have nothing to do with success or failure. They just happen silently. These are enough to make people love ordinary life. However, I still want to say that even a bad life is not enough. It's still worth your while to experience, but I still can't forgive some of the reasons that made your life rotten. And that's what I think the film blurs out, intentionally or unintentionally.

Finally, I have a question - the protagonist's body was wearing a hospital gown and not even pants on the way home from the hospital. The first piece of pizza he ate was stolen by the cat, then the things he ate later, and Take a taxi, what do you pay for?

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Soul quotes

  • Joe: You ready?

    22: Huh?

    Joe: To come live.

    22: ...I'm scared, Joe. I'm not good enough. And anyway, I... I never got my spark.

    Joe: Yes, you did. Your spark isn't your purpose. That last box fills in when you're ready to come live. And the thing is, you're pretty great at jazzing.

  • 22: [in Joe's body] Like my mentor George Orwell used to say, State sponsored education is like the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.