Should you be serious about what you show your children?

Micaela 2022-04-06 09:01:07

I don't discuss the small bugs of the film and the details of the character's plot.

In the process of watching the film, I have been thinking about a question: how to shape the correct concept of money for children?

As adults, we all know that money and friendship are complex and intertwined. There are almost no pure friends across the class, and there are also no friends who have no emotional connection but only interest relationships - they are called colleagues. At this point, the story is not bad at the end, with superb folk skills + financial thinking, it binds friends and interests very tightly, and the two families are inseparable, childhood friendship + adolescence love + adult interests, this The stability buff of marriage is already stacked.

The old dragon who has lived for thousands of years, in different time and space, helped 9 people realize 3*9=27 wishes, and poured so many human warmth and naked desire soup, it is still black and white, and from black to white to white to white Black, jumping left and right. It simply cannot afford a thousand-year-old intelligent body.

People are always complicated, and the concept of money is always complicated. Money can be a desire, a tool, a material, a future, a reality, or an ideal. Everyone has their own definition, some of which can make you rich, some can be happy, some can create, and some can destroy.

But at the end of the film, it only revolves on a dual dimension: money is like dirt -> money is the only value -> money is not dirt, and money is not the only value.

Although such a change is ok for cartoons, the turning point is too blunt and the expression is too deliberate:

The poor life has been beautified so much that people at the bottom can sing when they deliver a takeaway. This kind of beautification is like "why not eat minced meat?" Open live broadcast thanks to 999 Rockets. The life of the rich has been misunderstood by all kinds of misunderstandings, the entertainment is constant, and the debt is high - this is just a high-level wage earner, an opportunistic approach, is this true of the rich? That is money and leisure.

It seems that the poor are full and happy, and the rich are empty and fearful. Isn't this nonsense. Rich people of course understand the pain of being poor, but poor people do not understand the joy of being rich.

Children of rich people watch this kind of movie and think to themselves, ah, they can experience grassroots life, it seems quite interesting! But in the process of having fun, their parents' business is helping them make money, and they get a lot of dividends.

We poor children watch this kind of movie, thinking in their hearts, it turns out that getting rich will also have the trouble of getting rich, I just need to have a decent life, and hold the money to maintain family, friendship and love tightly in my hand, and work for a day. One day's meal can only be given to the rich as leeks to cut.

Should you be serious about what you show your children?

I think so. This movie is not serious.

Last but not least, Jackie Chan's dubbing is very comfortable!

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Extended Reading

Wish Dragon quotes

  • Long: Din!

    [looks around in confusion]

    Long: Whats happening?

    Pipa God: Welcome Longzhu.

    Long: What's going on? Where am I?

    Pipa God: Congratulations! Your service as a Wish Dragon is complete.

    Long: Complete? But I haven't finished, I haven't finished my tenth master!

    Pipa God: You have put the needs of another before yourself, and shown us that you understand the meaning of life. You are now free to enter the spirit world

    [Spirite world doors open and trumpets sound and confetti sticks to Long]

    Long: Is that... a parade?

    [Smiles]

    Pipa God: In your honor.

    Long: No no no! I can't! I have to go back!

    Pipa God: Back?

    Long: Turn me back into a Wish Dragon, I have one more wish to grant!

    Pipa God: Th-that's ridiculous, the laws of heaven forbid it.

    Long: You're ridiculous! You're an old man in a skirt!

    Pipa God: This isn't a skirt!

    Long: Send me back!

    Pipa God: [Pipa God plays his instrument and the doors to the spirit world close and the parade disappears behind them] You dare reject the will of the Gods?

    Long: Fine, if you won't send me back, I'll do it myself!

    [Starts digging into the clouds]

    Pipa God: Stop that!

    Long: [Continues to dig into the clouds] Stupid clouds! Ah!

    Pipa God: Stop! Stop that this instant!

    Long: Ah! My friend needs me!

    Pipa God: Fine! We will permit you to return, but only under one condition.