The Magic Toy Box: Simplicity is more important than complexity

Novella 2022-03-25 08:01:01

Is it true that all children's science fiction films will be made into works like "E•T", and all the complexities of reality are not worth mentioning in the face of children's pure emotions? The answer seems to be yes. It is said that when human beings become more and more dependent on technology, people will stop evolving, and those genes will die out. Therefore, what seems to be very simple and easy to ignore in the eyes of people now may be in the future. Human society will become extremely rare.
After tens of thousands of years of human society, human emotions have been enriched to a certain extent, so when we look back, we find that the only thing missing is a kind of simplicity, when love is complicated by material, when family is imprisoned by ethics, when friendship is benefited When it is defiled, feelings are no longer so pure. It seems that we can only look for some signs without social branding from children. Therefore, the simple adjective of pure has also been abstracted by adults.
A pair of ordinary brothers and sisters stumbled upon a strange box while on vacation by the sea. There were many strange objects in it, such as spinning stones, wafers, liquid objects like human brains, and a toy rabbit. In the eyes of adults, chips have become useless cardboard, and other things are nothing special, but in the eyes of children, all this is so new, so the psychology of hiding treasures affects these two children .
Children have a natural sensitivity to strange things, and so do the aliens in "E•T". More importantly, these things belong to the children's world, and adults cannot and are willing to share them. So the two children were inadvertently endowed with superpowers when they were amazed by these objects. Superpowers are an appearance that fuels this story, but what we really care about is the attitude of parents and society when children have superpowers.
The film mainly shows the children's parents. The father is a workaholic. Every time he goes home, it feels like a long absence. The warm hug can only be used as a compensation for his family. Although the mother is a family member housewife, but there is no real communication with the child. Thus, a breakfast expresses the estrangement between father and child, and the darling of the child who is deliberately thrown away due to social consciousness shows that the sociality of the mother is fundamentally different from the simplicity of the children. It's all love, but love is tainted by this sense of manipulation.
The boy's approval from his father for his superpowers is also very social, and there is no real concern for the child at all. Genius has a realistic irony here. The girl's peculiar performance makes her mother restless, and her mother's behavior such as asking a doctor for this is still the logic of adult society. Moreover, the blackout accident caused by the two children's babies showed the most realistic anti-terrorism color. The intrusion of the agents and the scientific research on these strange objects have a social nature. All sociality is precisely against children, completely contrary to children's thinking, and has social complexity.
On the contrary, the teacher's corner is closer to the children. A teacher who has visited Tibet does not believe in miracles. This itself shows the complexity of the characters. There are no miracles in the real society. However, due to his previous experience, he still recognizes the miracles that happened to the children, especially under the guidance of his wife, so the teacher became the children's biggest helper. health effect.
As the story progresses, the secret of the box is finally solved, and it turns out that it came from the future. In the future world, human beings have lost their souls, so they return to modern society to find this soul. But what is the soul polluted and abandoned by big industry? It was a tear from a little girl. When the little girl knew that the toy bunny was going to die, she cried. The simple thought, even if it was a toy bunny, was something that all adults would not care about, and she still cried. In fact, the motive for crying is very simple. When a child's toy is damaged or lost, she will naturally feel sad and cry, because the relationship between her and the toy is established.
In the face of the lost feelings, the little girl couldn't help dripping tears on the cheeks of the toy rabbit, and the simple and simple emotions contained in these tears are what the future world lacks, so the future world is saved.
This film can almost be seen as a remake of "E•T". The alien has become a toy rabbit that conveys information from the future, and then the innocent hearts of children and the complex social consciousness of adults. In terms of emotional accumulation, the suffering of children in the plot is not strong enough, and the toy rabbit is far less alive than E•T, so it is slightly worse, but it is undeniable that the story of the film can still make many children full of fantasy. Adults are willing to sit down and think seriously, this film will definitely bring some inspirations in life!

Han Xi
2007-6-29 in Tongzhou

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  • Amber 2022-03-25 08:01:01

    How to say kid movie. . The story is an old story. Change the soup but not the medicine. . 6 points

  • Carolyn 2022-03-25 09:01:23

    The heroine is very beautiful~~~ But the story is quite old-fashioned~~

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