Snatcher imposes a curfew on the town and hunts box monsters frantically. Because the townspeople don't understand the box monster, he described the box monster as extremely scary, "they will fry your eyes, bite your knees, eat your stomach" to intimidate the residents.
The camera turns to the box monsters, which are strange and a little ugly, with a box around them. They rummaged through the rubbish heap, found an alarm clock, a rag doll, and immediately appeared happy, seemingly innocent and content. Even if we haven't seen the plot introduction, we can see some clues here. Are they really as scary as Snatcher said, we are beginning to wonder. At this time, Snatcher's lackeys began to hunt box monsters. Seeing the pitiful scene of box monsters being caught, I started to worry about them.
Let's talk about Snatcher's three subordinates. They have different personalities. Although they are small supporting roles, their personalities are very full. Fat Trout, he is a bit stupid and a bit cute. We will see later that he released Eggs and repented. He is still kind in heart. The skinny, Pickles, is more slick by comparison. When catching the box monster, he said "we are all good people", here we can see that he is actually the object of deception, he thinks the ugly box monster is the bad guy. But later he also repented with Fatty, which shows that he is also kind in heart. Shorty Gristle, can be said to be the second character of the villain, he is bad to the bottom of his heart, and he did not recognize the difference between justice and evil until the end. Or, he just likes to be a bad guy.
A few box monsters that escaped by chance, such as Fish and shoes, we can see them in the cave, ingenious cave design, and various organ lighting. Reminds me of Disney's "Wonderful Fairies: Tinkerbell" series, it turns out that they, like Tinkerbell, have a talent for inventing and repairing. It's just that they don't have the beautiful appearance of Tinkerbell, they are ugly and they are regarded as bad people. Look at the world of faces, they are really pitiful.
After returning to the cave, thinking of the captured friends, they have become accustomed to it, and they continued to do their own things without sadness and sadness after returning. What makes me very curious is how a group of box monsters with no human life experience take care of a small baby and what to feed him. Seeing the little Eggs eat insects with them, I was also drunk, well, insects are rich in a lot of protein, so they won't starve to death, that's all I can understand. The little Eggs grew up under the care of the box monsters, and the box monsters became less and less, and they were all captured by Snatcher.
The film's little heroine, Winifred, the daughter of the town lord. She was born noble, but not as delicate as a rich daughter, she was smart, kind and rebellious. The dialogue between the Lord and several small town power figures when tasting cheese made the audience feel the corruption and incompetence of the ruler more deeply. When it comes to the crumbling bridge that the residents of the town complained about, they thought they would make some moves. Who knows, the next second is all about cheese, tasting cheese, owning cheese, and they only have cheese and white hats in their hearts. Winifred, like the townspeople, was deceived. She believed that the Box Monster was a man-eating monster. Until her encounter with Eggs, the mystery was gradually solved. In the process of rehabilitating and saving the Box Monster, she also played a considerable role. important role. Although she is a descendant of an ignorant ruler, Winifred has no shadow of the ruler's ugliness at all. She is a kind and brave child.
Eggs, who loves Eggs the most, was taken away, and Eggs was sad, but the others continued to live as if nothing had happened, which made him even more sad. We have seen the timidity and cowardice of the Box Monster, the psychology of the oppressed, fragile and afraid to resist, right? Eggs dresses up as a human and returns to human society to save Fish. They happened to see the commemorative performance of the 10-year-old child of Du Boxiao's family being abducted. Eggs doesn't know, in fact he is "the child of Du Boxiao's family", and Du Boxiao is his father. Seeing the slander of "Fashionable Ladies" and the misunderstanding of the box monster, Eggs couldn't help but complain about the box monster. "She's lying", and the uncomfortable moment came. The people next to him stared at Gggs dissatisfied after hearing it. The hateful image of the Box Monster has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and everyone has an irreversible misunderstanding about the Box Monster.
"We master our dreams and make others sad." The film goes on to reveal Snatcher's vain, twisted psychology. He disguises himself as a famous socialite "stylish lady" to deceive people. The scene where he sat in the tasting room and tasted cheese with a few of his subordinates, YY, also wore a fake white hat to imitate the life of the nobles. Funny, pathetic. Ironically, he is allergic to cheese! He knew that he was allergic to cheese, but he still tried it. His face was puffy and distorted, but he didn't know it, and he was immersed in the fantasy of his aristocratic life. I think he's pretty poor too. It was just for vanity, he didn't know, and in the end he was also destroyed in his own vanity.
Eggs told the Lord and the people the truth, but it was infuriating that the Lord only cared about his cheese and people still didn't get the truth. "People are mean and selfish, they're monsters" Desperate Eggs doesn't want to be around humans anymore, he says "I don't want to be a boy anymore". Back in the cave, Gggs tried to find the box monsters to move to a new home, but the cowardly box monsters were reluctant to move. This is Snatcher driving a machine invented by Eggs' father to surround them, and Eggs and the box monsters are captured. After being caught, Gggs persuaded the box monsters to escape, but they were huddled in the box and didn't know how to move. "Call it what you want, boy, they won't run," Snatcher said sarcastically. Seeing this, I really feel that the box monsters are very cowardly. I left them alone and didn't dare to run. It was really annoying until the iron was pressed down and I saw all the box monsters. Squeezed into a flat box. I thought to myself, that is the cowardice of human nature.
Snatcher takes the box monsters, all crushed into flat boxes, to ask the lord to give him the white hat, and wants to burn Gggs to death. At the critical moment, the box monsters appeared! They were naked! It turned out that when Gggs all fled, they dropped the box and ran out. It's very gratifying to see this, good people are always saved, and we must dare to fight for ourselves. At the climax of the film, Eggs, and the box monsters, including the original Snatcher's fat Trout and skinny Pickles, fight to the death with Snatcher. In the end, Snatcher kidnapped the Lord's daughter Winifred and threatened the Lord to hand over his white hat. Even if he was reluctant to bear the white hat, compared with his daughter, the lord still felt sorry for his daughter and handed over the white hat. Here we can see that no matter how corrupt and incompetent the ruler is, as a person and a father, he still retains his last humanity.
The vain Snatcher was finally able to put on his white hat and sit in the tasting room tasting cheese. The Lord gave Snatcher a piece of precious cheese that had been treasured for a long time. Snatcher knew that he might die if he tasted it. In order to satisfy his own vanity, he dared to try it. In the end, Snatcher died of an allergy explosion.
At the end of the film, fat Trout and skinny Pickles redeem themselves by cleaning the town and serving the people. Shorty Gristle was punished. Winifred shows people the wits about Big Bad Snatcher. Gggs father and son reunited. The Box Monsters get along happily in the small town. Just like the happy ending of almost all animated films in Hollywood, the happy ending of the film is still what we hope to see. The ruler of the town discarded the white hat that symbolized power, and the box monster took out the broken white hat from the trash can. No one regards it as a treasure anymore. More important than power and money is the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature, regardless of appearance.
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