The new film Megamind, which DreamWorks launched at the end of 2010, once again used a subversive way to tell their knowledge and views on life, good and evil, and the world. Among them, the name of Metro City is taken from the fictional Kansas City Metropolis in Super Man "Superman", so Megamind will read Metro City as Metroosity, and Metro Man is also the Super Man changed from Metropolis. Tighten Hal uses heat vision in the city Tightenville was branded on the ground, also from Smallville, and these adaptations gave the film a comedic vibe. Like Shrek IV's new heights, Megamind is an excellent film with a lot of depth and a lot to watch, and it's more beautifully sculpted than Shrek.
In the eyes of outsiders, Megamind is because he wants to do good things but often do bad things. He broke the jar and decided to become a Super Bad Guy. This also gives people an excuse to criticize the external environment and blame others in the environment for not giving The proper care of the fallen leads to their fall. But in fact, Megamind's goal from the beginning was to become the center of public praise. He was jealous of Metro Man, his classmate from aliens like him, and hoped that he would be as popular as him. Then Megamind found that no matter how much he tried to do like Metro Man, he always failed. At this time, Megamind is not reflecting on what went wrong, such as whether the machine he made is wrong, or what is wrong with his idea of being the center of attention, but giving up on himself. We are often like this. We always push our own mistakes to others, such as the destruction of opponents, the incomprehension of others, the pressure of life and work, etc., but we never reflect on ourselves and analyze our own problems carefully. When we believe that others have caused our mistakes, we use this method to comfort ourselves, show more disrespect to others, and repeat our mistakes more.
When Megamind really gained control of the entire Metro City, the joy of trying to become a superior man and the joy of inventing and creating disappeared when he reached the peak. The so-called joy of success is only a short-lived ecstasy. This can be applied to many people today. Nowadays, many people work to live, to eat well and live well, and many people earn money to repay their mortgages... When people fail to achieve their goals, they are working hard and looking forward to this day. However, we also see that after completing their short-term goals, more people will be empty for a period of time until they find the next goal. Few people reflect on why they are empty and why they are so contradictory to the "goal". Attitude. Many people keep changing mobile phones, hoping to get the latest, more functional and dazzling mobile phones; many people keep changing houses, hoping to change to a bigger and more spacious house; many people keep changing jobs, hoping to get a higher salary Easier work; many people keep changing lovers or partners, hoping to change to someone more beautiful and attractive... When a person lives in this state of greed, he can never be satisfied, and he can never stop. But Megamind stopped. He was obsessed with becoming a high-ranking ruler and gaining the submission of others, but Metro Man's struggle with him prevented him from achieving his goal. Until Metro Man's "exit", he really got the power he dreamed of, but found that the sweet feeling he imagined was just a dream, and the glory he once longed for was just a passing cloud. At this time Megamind felt empty. He attributes the emptiness to the absence of an opponent, without pondering whether his original goals were right. The empty Megamind foolishly thought that by creating an opponent for himself, he would be able to regain his former sense of fulfillment. DreamWorks uses this way to illustrate another point: people always like to keep repeating their mistakes, wrong goals, wrong ideas, wrong beginnings, wrong means, wrong endings, and then a vicious cycle, and then people think this is The so-called "reincarnation" sums up a plausible explanation and then goes on to make mistakes. That's what Megamind is like, he thinks that he can become full and happy by going back to the old life of competing with his opponents, even if he fails. So he was wrong again. Because the true fulfillment comes from the satisfaction of the emptiness inside, not the so-called fun outside. The process of struggle is just to let oneself have no time to take care of the emptiness inside. Only when you stop and calm down, the emptiness will completely attack. Come.
When Megamind finally defeated his own pseudo-hero Tighten Hal in order to protect the people he cared about, Roxanne Ritchi and Metro City, he won the sincere respect of people, and Roxanne's trust and love. Only then did he realize that Really fulfilling. For many years, he has been talking about "destiny", thinking that "destiny" made him a bad person, but when he had to stand up and fight to protect others, he realized that it was not fate that chose him, but that he chose destiny. , the path of everything is one's own choice, one's own choice to become a Bad Guy, not one's own destined to become a Bad Guy. It was at this time that he realized that only by choosing the right direction can he truly win and enjoy the true joy of success. At this time, the screenwriter used Megamind to express this concept: our destiny is determined by ourselves, not imposed on us by the outside world. We have to choose what kind of person we become and what kind of things we do. Everything depends on us, don't complain The environment is long and the environment is short. Our inner will determines the path we will take. Our path cannot be smooth sailing, but we cannot assume that we are ill-fated just because we encounter setbacks or failures, and we must reflect on whether our choice is correct. In the end, Megamind did achieve his dream of being cheered and supported by everyone, but it was not through the means he had used or the path he had traveled, but the change in nature. This also shows a problem: the essential change is not impossible, as long as you want to change, you can do it, the question is whether you want to do it or not.
Metro Man is a superhero that everyone respects, so he has been fighting to protect Metro City for many years. The mention in the film that he and Megamind were classmates also makes it plausible for him to know about Megamind. Therefore, at the end of the film Metro Man's sentence "I knew you had it in you." expresses his philosophy: he never eradicates Megamind, precisely because he firmly believes that Megamind is not a downright bad guy, but a man who has gone the wrong way. Poor man, he needs to be saved. This is a key idea shared by many Superman films in the United States: Are villains really hopeless? Don't the wicked need to be saved? Do not! The wicked need to be saved even more! This is based on a very strong point of view in the Christian faith: "Those who are healthy do not need a doctor, but those who are sick." (Mark 2:17) So Jesus Christ himself said: "I came Not the righteous to repentance, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5: 32) Every time Metro Man captures Megamind and sends him to prison, it is indeed to give him a chance to repent. In the film, Tighten Hal captures Megamind but wants to put Megamind to death. One is to show Tighten Hal's evil nature, and at the same time, it tells the audience that we should give those who have done wrong a chance to reflect, the death penalty seems to be It seems to be "fair and reasonable", but it also deprives them of the opportunity to repent. Whether they can really repent or not, we should give them a chance, because the only one who can truly judge those wicked people is the Lord of the universe - God, not Us of the same kind as those wicked. From this point, we can also understand why in the "Simpson's wife murder case", most of the American people believed that Simpson was guilty, but the vast majority believed that he could not be found guilty. Although Metro Man sees it all through, he can't escape his choice. He chose to be the protector of the people. This is something he is proud of, but it also makes him unable to have his own space and time, and your own life. He decided to withdraw from the endless battle with Megamind, and could not violate his principles of justice, so he faked his own death and hid in the school dormitory where he lived when he was studying. At the same time, he also believes that Megamind will one day return to the right path. What he didn't expect was that Roxanne was the key player in Megamind's transformation, and "love" was the catalyst that revolutionized Megamind.
In the film, Roxanne, a female reporter who has been taken hostage by Megamind many times, is very familiar with Megamind's usual tricks. When Roxzanne was detained by Megamind again, she was calm and indifferent. First, she knew that Megamind would not really hurt herself. Second Come and she believes that Metro Man will definitely save her. For this so-called super nemesis, Roxanne seemed much calmer. It is also her who accepts Megamind even if she finds that she has deceived herself, and believes that he can make a change; at the same time, she also helps Megamind's "self-rescue", and on the other hand, she also participates in "saving" Megamind. She is not only the first heroine of the film, but also a part of the "social environment", so the film uses Megamind's mouth to tell everyone that only people like Roxanne can become the smartest person in the crowd. In fact, the screenwriters use the image of Roxanne to express their philosophy: To be a truly intelligent person, you must first learn to understand others, even if the other person may be a bad person, and secondly, you must learn to care for others, even if the other person is a bad person. Roxanne also criticized us from another aspect: don't think that bad environment will definitely create bad people, "I" is a part of the environment, not only Roxanne is a part of the environment, you, me, he are also part of the environment, we criticize" "Environment" is not good, it is equivalent to criticizing ourselves for being bad in disguise, because we are the "environment". But when we criticize the bad environment, we always forget that we are part of the environment. This kind of funny thing can easily make us a laughing stock, and we often do not realize it. We accuse the "social environment", and we, as members of the "social environment", cannot escape from our own accusations. If we cannot make changes in time, this social environment will never change in essence. This concept of DreamWorks may not be new, but it is very meaningful, because the current situation of the social environment we live in is lack of our own understanding of ourselves. This arrangement of the screenwriter is also reminding us how we should treat others, those who are good, bad, black, white, yes, no, curvy, straight... If we don't correct ourselves first, there will be no Qualified to criticize others, let alone judge this social environment.
Tighten·Hal is another typical, or rather, a typical concentrated expression of "our" self-awareness. Nowadays, people often hear very "practical" arguments such as "getting rich", "making money", "being famous", and "winning the lottery", but 99% of people can't do it, so these arguments have also evolved into "Cold talk" has even become a very "fashionable" topic. That's why Hal suddenly became a superhuman from an unknown cameraman, and he evolved into a Super Bad Guy. Hal is not used to many things because he has no strengths himself. For example, he mistakenly thought that Roxanne's speech was written by the TV station and handed it to her to read, but he was delusional. Since he was a partner with Roxanne, he hoped that Roxanne would fall in love with him. Own. But he himself is a greedy person who is greedy for food, sleep and money, completely different from Roxanne who works hard and lives an active life. This kind of person is the epitome of many people in contemporary society, who are greedy and unwilling to pay, but still expect the pie to fall from the sky. So once such people have super powers, they can never become heroes. Just like what Megamind said in the conclusion, everyone's destiny is chosen by themselves, so is Hal, he has super powers and could have become a superhero with much attention, but he chose to become a super villain, that is to say, he did not become a superhero before. The villain is just because he was incapable at the time, and once he was given the opportunity, he would choose to be the villain without hesitation. There are countless such phenomena in today's society, such as profiteers and liars. They found illegal means to satisfy their own desires, so they did it without hesitation; for example, Gay, they didn't become gay before because they didn't have the opportunity at the time, as long as they had the opportunity It changes rapidly; for example, various "sisters", the dirty water in the entertainment industry, the increasingly flooded Pornography... This has to be said to be the tragedy of human nature. Whether a person wants to be good or evil, the most important thing is his own choice. The external environment may have a driving force, but the will of the person itself is the key to everything. Screenwriters also use this method to convey their understanding of human nature.
It is very interesting that the best American films always use this allegorical method to tell simple and true truths, and tell the audience some truths that are often ignored by us in joy.
We may face a bumpy road ahead, and if our will cannot make the right choice for us and cannot be our support for our progress, our failure is inevitable; in other words, we have made the right choice, our will And firm enough, who says success can't be ours?
This is like choosing beliefs, choosing the right beliefs, then we will live in joy, peace and hope all our lives. If we choose the wrong beliefs, on the contrary, pain, hardship, disappointment and even despair will accompany us all our lives, even eternal life... …
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