"The Adventures of the Bull": The real cattle man is brave enough to be himself
In life, the most difficult thing is to be brave to be yourself. Ancient Greek proverbs "Know thyself", only by examining yourself can you judge how to cross the river of your life. The Argentine blind poet Borges wrote one of the most beautiful images of the 20th century, a tiger sniffing a rose. The cartoon "The Adventures of the Bull" can be said to be similar to it. The film is adapted from Manro Rif's classic children's book "The Cow That Loves Flowers" created in 1936, this bull named Ferdinand, strong on the outside and gentle on the inside, he bravely bes himself, does not want to succumb to the arrangement of others, in order to return to his hometown, he embarks on the ultimate adventure without hesitation.
Everyone's endowments are different, and their self-perception is also very different. What's more, the individual's position in the course of the times is largely not determined by choosing the starting point and track. Ferdinand did not want to do bullfighting, which was a fate he wanted to avoid. Even if he is regarded as a beast, an excellent genius bullfighter, he does not feel happier to be himself, and the cow that loves flowers is his cognition. The Taiwanese writer Long Yingtai wrote about his son in "Dear Andrei" and said to her: "Mom, I am an ordinary person, not like you. Her son does not want to follow the life of his mother writing "Wildfire Collection" and serving as the head of the cultural department, naturally being himself, which is a positive life, but the second and third generations have become the "social identity" expected by parents and circles under the pressure of the family, and in the end it is a negative and helpless "senior". Whether a person wants to be a "cattle person" in the evaluation system of others depends first of all on his own heart, and often the stronger the parents, it is an extremely difficult dilemma for children to deal with. Children surpass good parents and are infinitely closer to zero in probability. Relatively speaking, being a "second ancestor" with a pejorative nature is too simple and boring, so the next generation who is good under the tree, how to live their own lives, brave to be themselves is almost at least a sub-optimal choice. In fact, it is often the best choice.
Well-behaved children are doing the sequels of parents, and cow children only do their own exclusives. The children of cattle families have been burdened with the burden of light lintels since childhood, and inheriting the career of their parents is a smooth starting point for them, but this is not in line with their nature. Gao Xiaosong, a graduate of Tsinghua Electronic Engineering, left the education family with a guitar on his back and went to Tianjin to sell songs. Park Shu, whose parents are both professors at Peking University, also dropped out of college to start music. Most of the Chinese musicians who started in the 1990s are rebels of the family, perhaps with strong external conflicts, or maybe not, which is not the key, the key is to be yourself is a happy and happy life. In "The Adventures of the Bull", Ferdinand had the same strong physique as his father, but he did not inherit his father's ambitions and only wanted to go his own way. Mencius said that there is righteousness in the grandeur, Zhuangzi said that there is righteousness between heaven and earth, and the child's heart shape is originally invisible, and they have their own character and interests. Giving children the right to choose and making him the person they want to be is a subject for parents to choose.
"The Adventures of the Bull" is to tell the audience that the real cattle man is brave enough to be himself, but this is of course not to go with the flow, but on the basis of fully understanding himself, he chose a lifestyle that is more in line with his own character. There is no doubt that this is the true meaning of a successful life. It should be reminded that do not use being yourself as a shield for not wanting to struggle and work hard. As a cow, Ferdinand is very bullish in every way, whether it is the appreciation of flowers, or the adventure with his friends, or even the final battle with the famous bullfighters on the forced bullring, he can also win the battle with a heavy weight, and sniff the flowers on the stage. It's clear that being yourself requires more bravery.