Rango is a common pet lizard. He spends his days doing nothing in the aquarium, fantasizing himself as a hero of the West, holding a mannequin hanger with a lost head, and a drowning cockroach, the clockwork fish plays the story of the hero saving the beauty, and all this is like in the box The bubbles in the small pond of Nawa disappeared after being broken. Until one day... a traffic accident threw the aquarium along with Rango and his friends onto the desert road. The speeding car rolled up a strong airflow, and the little lizard was rolled into the sky fiercely. A half-crushed armadillo said to the little lizard, cross this road, and you can see the god of the west. But Rango declined his invitation and, in search of water, decided to go in the opposite direction to the small town of Dirt on the edge of the desert. The town is made up of a group of desert animals, and the mayor of the turtle who masters the water is Dirt's center of power. In search of a glass of water, Rango walked into the local bar, and the simple villagers were full of curiosity about this stranger who knew nothing. Who are you? At this moment, Rango was caught up in a peculiar idea: WHO AM I ? I COULD BE ANYONE. He quickly made up a western hero story for himself, naming himself after the suffix of the place name Durango on the wine glass , and the subsequent defeat of the Eagle by mistake provides a side evidence for this story.
The residents of the town cheered for their impending relief from the savior, and Rango became the cowboy sheriff of his fantasy. The good times did not last long, and the lack of water broke the peaceful life of the residents. In desperation, the new Sheriff Rango led the townspeople on the road to find water. In the process of searching for water, the pedestrian had a conflict with the visitors who came to grab the water, and a war started. After the two sides lost both sides, they found that the so-called water was just an empty jar. The crowd arrested the leader and returned to the town in embarrassment. Thirsty residents flooded the streets, besieging the police station, demanding that the water grabbers be hanged and Rango removed, and a riot was inevitable. In desperation, Rango had to use the barrel of a gun to re-establish his prestige among the residents in an attempt to restore social order. In the previous exploration, Rango gradually discovered that there may be a huge conspiracy hidden behind his humble mayor. And all of this also threatened the dictator Turtle Mayor, who was eager to control the entire town through water. He invited the desert killer Rattlesnake to clear the town of Rango, a dissident. The Rattlesnake takes over the town with violence and terror, puncturing Rango's cowhide and forcing him to sweep away. The setting sun was sinking, Rango dragged his heavy steps, only a huge silver moon accompanied him and set foot on the other way. The so-called hero turned around, probably like this, standing alone and alone.
Rango has returned to its original starting point, still busy on the road, full of traffic and neon. The story of the hero of the west is like a dream, which is illusory and disillusioned. Huang Liang sleeps and the world is cold and warm, which makes the little lizard re-examine himself: WHO AM I? I WAS NOBODY. Rango, the hero worshipped by everyone in his own imagination, A bastard and liar who was despised by everyone, like falling from a high tower into an icy pond, his vain pride was crushed by his dejection. It turned out that the huge body he saw on the wall every day was just the projection of his own little backbone. Feelings mixed in his heart, sad and suffering, he lowered his head and walked down the road again. Facing another collapse of self-knowledge, the little lizard fell on the other side of the road. I don't know if it's a dream or reality, the spirit of the west appeared in front of Rango,
- Excuse me, Mister Spirit, sir? What are you doing out here?
- Searching, same as you.
- I don't even know what I'm looking for. I don't know even who I am. And they used to call you “the man with no name”
- These days, they got a name for just about everything. It doesn't matter what they call you. It's the deeds that make the man.
- But my deeds just made things worse. I'm a fraud. I'm a phony. My friends believed in me, but they needed some kind hero. I'm not even supposed to be here.
- That's right? You came a long way to find something that isn't out here. Don't you see? It's not about you. It's about them.
- But I can't go back.
- You don't know you got to choose, son. No man can walk out his own history.
I love this dialogue, and if you don't take into account the three-level up-and-coming ending, this dialogue alone should make this movie a 10-point movie. But let me finish the story first, as the owls that chanted in the movie would say, this western movie animation that pays homage to cowboy tales has a standard western ending that is even more comical and coincidental. Orchid guides Rango to discover that the truth of the disappearance of water is that the newly built golf course by humans has cut off the water and cut off the water source of Dirt. Ironically, when the mayor and other "high-class people" played "golf" with watermelon bugs, the mayor revealed some clues about the reason for his painstaking efforts to control the water source: he also hoped to get the land on which the villagers depended without any effort. , transformed into a "future" city. Rango was in a hurry, borrowed the Possum Raiders (that is, the tribe that grabbed the water just now), cooperated with cutting off the water source, disrupted the mayor's original arrangement, and exhausted the Rattlesnake's bullets. After several battles, the mayor and the rattlesnake had already clashed when the outcome was not decided. In order to build a brand-new capital business society, the town mayor is bound to solve the thugs who symbolize the remnants of violence. However, in the final battle, justice triumphed over evil, and the Rattlesnake admired Rango's growth, gave up the deadly battle, and chose to leave with the mayor. The story thus has a happy ending in the traditional sense. It is quite intriguing that the commercial society that the mayor took great pains to realize was quickly realized after the great abundance of water. The townspeople gave up water as an equivalent exchange, and the currency was used. Dirt also changed to Mud, and a swimming pool was built... Rango, a legend of heroes, still pursues his false hero title, but this society no longer needs real heroes.
Many film critics ignored this film because it was an animated film "for children", and even if there were very few film reviews, most of them only focused on this cartoon's tribute to the classic western genre. , while ignoring the connotation of the film itself. I only saw one movie review, which said, "This is a movie in a western cowboy coat that explores the character's self-identification", which is very well written. This self-identity is expressed through these three simple words, Who Am I. Rango, the little lizard, suffered two identity crises. With this division, he has different ways of self-identification in his heart.
(1) Chaos period: refers to the psychological state of the little lizard before the car accident. His psychological identity is that he rehearses one-act plays without partners or audiences, fantasizes about himself as a great actor, a hero in the world, and fantasizes about the romantic stories of heroes saving beauty. These identities have no realistic basis at all, and can only be realized in an aquarium where the environment and the heart are extremely closed.
(2) Ignorance period: The little lizard Rango had a car accident and entered the cruel and real world for the first time. He found that he was not a hero, he could not save the beauty or the world, and even shivered in front of the mighty eagle You can't even save yourself, and you even need a woman to help. As we grow up, we find that reality is a cruel benchmark that knocks us to the ground. It seemed that he didn't have the strength to stand up, so he could only crawl forward. Rango found out that his story was worthless, and no one wanted to pay attention to him. First he followed Toad's advice and imitated others everywhere, but no one wanted to pay attention to him; then he discovered something more miraculous: society was new to him, and he was a stranger to it. He can make up his own past at will. He has given himself a domineering name and a strong background. He is satisfied with one person under ten thousand people for a while...until the second identity crisis comes.
(3) Maturity: The second identity crisis made Rango's false self-identity completely destroyed. Under suffering, he had to start thinking about how to define himself. However, it cannot be ignored that although the second crisis requires him to know himself from scratch again, he is no longer the little guy who can be swept away by the airflow of the car. Even if it was an adventure brought by bragging, his life had to be somewhat heavy. When his inner soul of the west is aroused, what the soul of the west says to him is precisely the key to rebuilding his identity: You are not a hero, but you have to pretend to be a hero. It doesn't matter what other people call us, it matters what we do - Spirit of the West reminds Rango, and also reminds us that we must walk away from the compliments of others. Others are our mirrors, but they can never be. ourselves. The mature Rango walked back to Dirt town and saved the people in distress. No longer relying on shit luck, he used his resourcefulness and courage to become a hero again, and a legend...
If a movie just talks about a certain castle in the air in general, then it can't be called a meaningful good movie. After all, Rango is a story about the philosophy of life. We all once fantasized like Rango that we were heroes, angels, and messengers with a special mission... In the shadow of our parents' wings, under the harbor of our family, we were like little ducklings, over-comprehensive and arrogant. And the second. But the first wave of reality slapped all our delusions on the beach.
Destiny does not always change according to our will. So we turned from arrogance to inferiority, and we began to study how to better integrate into this society, how to transform ourselves, and how to let go of all stature to show our sincerity in cooperating with the world. From a lonely and cramped small universe to an interactive large universe, we wash our lonely nature over and over again - just like a wise man said, "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes", which most of us do all our lives. The thing is to improve your status in the arena, and improve your quality of life along the way - that's why the "The Art of Pretend" is so popular. Whether it is following the trend or bragging about x, its essence is quite the same. "The Art of Pretending" was originally a book that satirized those "pretending people" who didn't know how to pretend to understand. Because the textual research is too reliable, it has become a reference book for everyone to improve their skills. Some people say that if you want to give the impression that you read a lot of poetry, you can memorize a long list of poets and masterpieces, or you just have to despise Bei Dao. It's disgusting to say, but what kind of humble and despicable soul is not just because he expects to be treated kindly by the world?
Getting old is a compulsory course, but maturity is an elective course. Not everyone will experience a second crisis in their life. But some of us are bound to suffer. When we find that the pretended self is getting farther and farther from the real self, and the labelled and symbolized us in the eyes of others is far higher than the lair where we really live, we will feel the emptiness, guilt and guilt in our hearts. With everything we got, relativism can't save the self-denied soul, we start to wait, looking forward to when our degenerate outer skin is shattered by fate... In reality, the pain of growing up has taught us that it is impossible to be strong from the outside and do the same. OK. We started to get back to who we really were, and we started to interrogate ourselves, Who Am I. Over and over again, sad and lonely. We will constantly deny ourselves, I am nobody. Until we start thinking about another question, who put us in the situation of heroes. Those labels weren't put on by us on purpose, they were scary. However, it is in such a difficult situation that life will never give us a chance to read the file and come back. Fortunately, we found that when we were false, we have paved a more solid road for later life. This road is more difficult, but more real.
At this time, we have already understood the funny and ridiculous, hateful and terrible of this world. But we have come and we have learned how to face this unpredictable world. We laughed and refused to be its slaves again, we stepped out of the Plato wall, refusing to raise our hands in surrender.
Young children are frivolous and refuse to live in the world, but most of the old people are reclusive. But life is not a standard circle. It's like Rango came to the same road with endless traffic twice, but he was already reborn at that time.
The determined Rango finally had this dialogue with the armadillo:
- What now, Amigo?
- No man can walk out of his own history. I'm going back.
- But why?
- Because that's who I am.
Yes, we have to go the hard way down our own path, because that's who we are.
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