Dinosaurs are the first lesson for little boys

Lionel 2021-12-19 08:01:04

After having a child, I haven't written non-work-related text for a long time, let alone film reviews. All the time outside work (although not much) is used to accompany and record the child, take pictures, record videos, write some text clips, and send ins that no one pays attention to, just like a patient on the verge of Alzheimer’s, panic Record everything, for fear that it will be forgotten after a long time.

The purpose of writing this article is still the same.

"Home Alone" is the first movie my child yo-yo has watched completely, thanks to his mother who is a pitted baby. His mother set a rule at home, not to let the child watch the screen for more than 15 minutes at a time, and the sound of the rule still reverberated in her ears, and she took the baby with her nose and tears to watch the whole movie, what 15 minutes The limitation of the two has long been forgotten in the intent of the mothers.

As the child’s father, my first reaction to the news was to quickly find the time to show the movie, for fear that it would slow down and the child would not be able to talk about the plot. Don’t lose the same topic with my children. This is my biggest motivation for learning in the past two or three years. For this reason, I figured out Peppa Pig’s complicated relationship with friends and remembered the city where each character in Super Flying Man appeared. And, became half an expert in dinosaurs.


Speaking of why little boys like dinosaurs is an inconclusive topic. The most interesting explanation is that dinosaurs are the most powerful and the most mysterious and intangible of the animals that the little boy recognizes. Out of children's curiosity, they will have a great willingness to understand the mysterious dinosaur, imagine themselves as a dinosaur, and conquer everything like him.

Yoyo, who loves dinosaurs, often asks me a question: Are dinosaurs extinct? Are they extinct because of an asteroid hitting the earth?

This is the most interesting part of this movie. When the asteroids whizzed past the earth, the imaginary in the hearts of all the children was realized. The dinosaurs were not extinct. They continued to rule the world. Like humans, they learned to farm. , Learned to be nomadic, learned to enslave humans just like humans enslaved puppies.

The story itself is not a novelty. The cowardly little dinosaur lost his home. Accompanied by a loyal human child, it overcame all odds and dangers, defeated its own fear, gained courage and friendship, and finally returned home. , Completed the growth process of a little dinosaur. These plots are a bit clichéd for an adult, but for a little boy, every detail here is real and novel.

When Yoyo saw this movie for the first time, I was also by my side. When he saw the scene where the little dinosaur’s father was washed away by the flood, he was completely out of control. He kept yelling that I didn’t watch it, I didn’t watch it, and then he lay in his mother’s arms and cried constantly. can not stop. At this moment, I believe that he understands the meaning of those pictures and has mixed feelings in his heart, but I have to encourage him to let him have the courage to face these pictures. Life is impermanent. These pictures look illusory, but they are in fact extremely real. Let go of cowardice. Face, maybe it is a compulsory course for a little boy.

In later days, Yoyo only wanted to watch the beginning of this cartoon, happily watching the little dinosaurs laugh and grow up happily. When the storm came and the danger was about to come, she immediately stopped and went to do other things.

Until the first two days, he magically passed that section and watched the whole movie with his mother. During this period, he should have a lot of fearful images. The invasion of heavy rain, the fraud of the pterodactyl, and the bite of the velociraptor should all be scenes that he can't usually face. But he persevered until he saw the little dinosaur go home and reunited with his mother and siblings. After watching the movie, Yoyo sent me a voice, saying: "Dad, I finished watching that movie, and the little brachiosaurus found its home." There was an uncontrollable cry in the voice. As soon as I put down my phone, it went again. He began to cry and cry so much that when he got up at noon that day, he sat silently by the bed and shed tears for a long time. At that moment, I felt that he really understood the movie because he was looking forward to the little dinosaur coming home. It made him forget his fear and watched the whole movie.

I think this is the growth history of a little dinosaur, and also the growth history of a little boy.


To say something interesting. As a dinosaur lover, many settings in the movie always make the corners of my mouth go up.

In the movie, the dinosaur father and mother have only three children. This is the first time they are dragon parents. But in the real world of dinosaurs, dinosaurs need to keep hatching small dinosaurs. After all, this world is too dangerous, and there is too little chance that a dinosaur can live to their biological upper limit. Most of the time they don't know how many children they have, or how many eggs the pesky egg thief stole. Of course, if you restore this scene, you don't need to make this movie. Because maybe, blood relationship is not a chain of connecting feelings. Only when they grow up with each other is the real emotional bond. Only in this way can a bunch of people gathered together be called a family.

According to the official introduction, the protagonist is a brontosaurus, but in fact, the only large sauropod dinosaur that can stand the neck so straight should only be Brachiosaurus. This knowledge point is too familiar to you and does not accept refutation at all. The other dinosaurs appearing in the movie, Tyrannosaurus rex is fierce in appearance and warm in heart, pterodactyl is sinister, cunning and profitable, and velociraptor is abducted, cruel and aggressive. This is very different from the traditional human setting of dinosaurs, but it is very coincidental and coincidental. "Miyashi Tatsuya Dinosaur Series" is exactly the same. It seems that in the hearts of human beings, we still hope that those characters with powerful power will always be gentle, kind, and just; those who like to eat carrion must be nasty and cunning characters; and those with faces The ugly guys who are good at guerrilla must all like sneak attacks and idlers. These points, across China, Japan and the United States, are surprisingly consistent.

Miyoshi Tatsuya Dinosaur Series
9.5
[日] Gong Xi Taya / 2013 / 21st Century Press

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The Good Dinosaur quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Thunderclap: The storm provides!

  • Poppa: Sometimes you got to get through your fear to see the beauty on the other side.