"Toy Story 4" is so beautiful, Pixar is still the original Pixar that subverted the industry, and it is still full of laughter and tears. The newly added Brother Rabbit and Yellow Duck take 50% of the laughs, Keanu Reeves The dubbed Duke of Locomotive has a funny aura, remember to watch the easter eggs, there are several!
But that's not the biggest reason we love the toy line.
At the end of "Toy Story 3" nine years ago, the grown-up Andy handed over all of Woody's toys to the lovely Bonnie.
At that time, I thought that this was the best ending the toy series could imagine. Cowboy police officers Woody and Buzz Lightyear finally "reconciled" with their old owners (mainly Woody), and were successfully handed over to their new owners. hand.
It seems that everything has come to the end of having to say goodbye.
But I was wrong.
I used to be afraid that the new one would destroy the classic status of the entire series in my heart, but in fact, the fourth part not only completely retains the advantages of the first three parts (really super hilarious + tears), in terms of the theme It also opened up a new world that is completely different from the first three films, successfully keeping up with the times.
The sequel to the classic series, the most embarrassing is that the shell is retained and the core is outdated. A theme that was considered avant-garde at the time, will inevitably become conservative and old-fashioned as times change.
But "Toys 4" is the iterative update of the inner shell that has really succeeded.
At the end of the movie, Cowboy Woody continues to stand on the front line of protecting children's childhood.
Only this time, he was no longer protecting an "Andy" or "Bonnie". Every child is the object that Woody wants to protect, and every child deserves a childhood doll that makes him happy.
Moreover, it was a path of his own choosing, a choice of free will, not out of fulfillment of his duty to guard his master.
More importantly, the loyal Woody finally got out of the "master"-centered dilemma. What he wants to do in the future is not only to find dolls for every child, but also to find children for those forgotten dolls.
The happiness of children is very important, but the happiness of dolls is also very important.
For the first time, Woody put the happiness of his friends on the same level as the children.
"Toys 4" is about free will , which may seem like a bit of an old-fashioned point of view, but reinterpreting the theme with "loyalty" as an antithesis feels a little more interesting.
Shepherdess returns to the main storyline as the opposite of Woody's "loyalty" and the spokesperson for free will.
She has also undoubtedly become the biggest bright spot in this movie (blind), she is simply Indiana Jones of the female version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." In recent years, Disney has been very powerful in terms of gender equality.
Watching her with three sheep (six eyes that can see through the soul, I can't remember the names of these three sheep) galloping in the wilderness, re-entering the second-hand antique store for Woody, asking for help (Keanu Lee Don't be too funny with the Duke of motorcycles dubbed by Weiss!), save Sanyang, and personally send Woody back to Bonnie...
Every step, every decision, every action radiates the kind of light that only the free can have.
The kind of dashing who lives only for himself but stabs his friends at both ends, just don't get too fired up.
Relative to Bao's freedom, Woody is still struggling and overwhelmed by the "loyal" siege. He could sense the helplessness of his own cycle of fate, but couldn't find a solution.
Even at the end of the third installment at the time (which felt like a series finale at the time), I was vaguely apprehensive about Woody's future (I think a little too much about the future of a toy hahaha).
Although little Bonnie took over the toys, just like Andy who entered college with one foot, little Bonnie, who just entered kindergarten today, will grow into a person who no longer needs toys to increase safety one day in the future. Sensual girl.
She will have her own friends, secret crushes, and worry about going to school, and these things, toys can't help at all.
Then, where will the Woodies go?
Are Woody and his friends going to experience this loss of being no longer needed and fall into the cyclic fate of being changed hands again?
I believe this is a question on the minds of all people who love toy lines. But the reality is too cruel, and we are not willing to think too much and delve into it.
After all, to base your happiness on someone who is destined to change, and being abandoned is an inevitable fate.
The third part focused on the sadness of growing up and parting. The fate of the Woodys who had to be "abandoned" was added with a thick layer of sugar coating. She gave up to cover up the past, and did not want to think about it.
In fact, the fourth installment has already laid the groundwork for this concern, and even at Bonnie's age, Woody is starting to get tired of it.
That feeling of being ignored came overwhelmingly to Woody again.
Bao (shepherdess) is right, Woody's dedication to saving the fork is not because Bonnie really needs the company of the fork, but he wants to prove to himself that Bonnie's happiness is still him, Sheriff Woody , the meaning of a doll's life.
And Woody's more than one sad memories of Andy also confirmed the fear and loss in his heart.
Loyalty has become an excuse for Woody to numb himself and stop moving forward, and it is also a shackle he can never break. Before he met the treasure again, he felt that there was only one way to go in his future.
What's even more sad is that how this loyalty came about and what it actually stands for (like, what about disloyalty?), Woody never really thought about it.
This loyalty to his master (Andy or Bonnie) had been given and planted in him since he was conscious, and he didn't even have the slightest doubt.
Of course, the film doesn't discuss too much what Woody's blind loyalty represents (it's family-oriented after all), but it doesn't simply prevaricate with "toys are made to serve children".
From the first completion of the doll's mission (accompanying Andy until he reaches adulthood) to the beginning of the second cycle (accompanying Bonnie), this loyal subject-object is continually questioned, the awakening of self-consciousness, and the subsequent From the pursuit of freedom, there is still a strict logic behind the script.
Loyalty is the word, no one seems to question its badness.
But why do we hold so much to this quality that implicitly implies "personal sacrifice" even at the cost of some or all of personal freedom? The reason behind this, in today's advocacy of freedom, is worth reconsidering.
I wouldn't call loyalty a personal quality, it's more of a social title bound and established by a social force.
Social structuralism believes that a considerable part of our life is not actually something that actually exists, but a virtual object built entirely or partly based on social functions, which is a product of human consciousness, not "eternal". "fact", or "real".
The difference between this kind of thing and "actually existing things" is that their definitions and connotations will change in response to the changes of the times, different social forms, and differences in the same era and region.
Spiritual qualities such as bravery and loyalty belong to this category of non-"factual existence". They naturally carry social attributes, and society is a continuous variable that changes with time and space.
An act that might be considered brave in one country, reckless or cruel in another, and the boys Hitler considered brave are not recognized by us.
Examples of the same are money, residency, adornments of bravery, definitions of gender behavior.
These things are all things that we acquiesce in within the scope of society as real things. They have no entity and only bear the carrier of their social value, and social value is often opposed to personal will.
The social quality produced under the social value that goes against the individual's will is destined to give way to the self-will in the end.
We should all keep in mind at all times whether those qualities that are socially strong and look bright are what we really want to have and hold, or are they guided by others .
But fortunately, in the end, Woody abandoned blind loyalty and listened to his heart for the first time and did what he wanted to do.
The toy series really makes people feel the beauty of the world. The thrilling journeys carried out in the playful portrayal of each character are full and real. Even if they know they are fake, they never feel a sense of distance.
At the end of each film, there is a new growth with the characters.
Of course, the super family orientation also made "Toys 4" finally arranged for the new mission of the wandering couple, Woody and Bao, to help more children get toys and be happy; but if it can be based on a broader Will it be a more exciting trend for them to go beyond the limitations of children's world and explore other new possibilities in the world?
Or, will it be the big theme for the next toy line?
Who knows.
Finally, forcibly insert a large high-definition picture of Brother Rabbit and Little Yellow Duck.
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