Mad Hominid is a 3D comedy cartoon about an adventurous trip for a hominid family. Produced by DreamWorks, written by Cork de Miko, directed by Chris Sanders, and voiced by Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, and Ryan Reynolds.
The background of the film takes place in primitive society, telling the story of a primitive family led by Gua Ge, living in a cave, relying on robbing ostrich eggs every day for food, but did not expect that the crustal movement caused the cave to be destroyed, and the family was forced to go to the new world outside. During the journey, they meet the new new human Gai, who has many strange ideas and inventions, and with Gai's creativity, the Guago family has escaped many difficulties and finally reached a beautiful new home.
The Russian critic Belinsling once proposed the concept of the "familiar stranger." The characters in the film all reflect the characteristics of human collectivity. In these characters, they can always reflect the essential commonality or universality of some kind of person in social life, which happens to be common to people, so it produces a "sense of familiarity". And because of the author's unique aesthetic shaping, each character has its own unique personality, so there will be a "sense of strangeness", it is the unity of its commonality and personality that constitutes the "familiar" and "strange" unity of the public in the process of watching the film.
In "Crazy Primitive Man", on the one hand, the film is set in a prehistoric era that is far away from human society, creating a sense of strangeness and alienation for the audience. On the other hand, the film portrays a classic American family, with a strong symbolic meaning, and also brings a "sense of familiarity" to the audience. As the pillar of the family, Gua Ge took on the heavy responsibility of protecting his family, so he had many "Gua Ge Doctrine" and made a lot of rules, which is almost a very common type of image in our society.
The eldest daughter, Xiaoyi, is a curious girl who, unlike Guago's conservative personality, is full of curiosity and loves adventure, bent on chasing the novel world outside the cave. The gentle Wu Ga, as the mother in the film, is the bond between XiaoYi and Gua Ge's time. In addition, there is the irritable grandmother Wu Ka, the friendly second son Tank, and the innocent little daughter Xiao Shan. The charming life of the characters in the film is higher than life, and the family of six has their own unique personalities and highly generalized commonalities.
The emergence of this "new new humanity" has, to a certain extent, disintegrated the patriarchal society headed by Guago. At first, the film shows us a highly centralized patriarchal society. Guago, as a symbol of power, occupies a lofty position in the family. He watched his neighbors die and made many dogmas and rules to protect his family. For example, "new is bad", "curiosity is bad", "going out at night is bad", the family strictly abides by these rules, and only the eldest daughter, Xiaoyi, will occasionally rebel.
Later, Gai joined the extended family to challenge his father's authority, he taught everyone to use fire, wear shoes, make traps, tell everyone to use more brains, these new things constantly impact the cognition of cavemen, instantly overturned Guago's survival law, Guago's family status began to waver. When Guago proposed to find a new cave as a home, everyone heeded Gai's advice and set the home on a distant mountain, saying that they wanted to follow Gai to seek the light despite Guago's objections.
The Gollum family's adventures are essentially stepping out of their comfort zone step by step, and creativity is a powerful motivator for them. At first, the Gollum family lived a daily routine, with the cave as their only habitat, and then a shell movement came, destroying their home. Due to changes in the external environment, the family had to be forced out of their comfort zone and began the family's escape adventure. Because of this, the environment is able to reshape itself.
At first, they came to the gorgeous and dangerous world outside, full of man-eating flowers and plants and unnamed kiwi beasts, encountered monkey attacks, stone labyrinths, trapped in tar pools... In the process of using creativity to overcome dangers, the Gollum family gradually changed their conservatism, stubbornness and prejudice, and the dream of continuing to maintain the cave life gradually became to find "tomorrow", and creativity gave them the courage to get out of the cage of conformity. Especially the transformation of the father of the film. At the critical juncture of life and death, Gua Ge used his creativity to create a spaceship that "follows the sun and can make the tiger fly to the sky", showing the transformation of his father from self-containedness to bold innovation, bidding farewell to the closed old life and moving towards a broader nature.
The contradictions in the story are mainly reflected in two aspects. External contradictions are manifested in the destruction of the old home and forced to confront nature, while internal contradictions come from conflicts within the family. Although the Gollum family lives safely under the protection of Gua Ge, there is a lack of communication and communication between family members, resulting in a serious estrangement. Among them, the contradiction between Xiaoyi and Guago is the most prominent, Xiaoyi is bored with the darkness of the cave and guago's story that ends with "So they died" every night, and she wants to explore the new world outside, to pursue the light outside the cave, but this is obviously contrary to the conservative and rigid "Guago doctrine".
But the conflict between father and daughter was quietly resolved during the adventure, replaced by a strong family tradition of values, and in a pinch, Guago used his own strength to throw his family to the other side, but he stayed. "It doesn't matter, father will do this", the lines are full of infinite warmth and love, and finally Gua Ge "fly" to the other side, Xiao Yi said the sentence "I love you too". At the end of the film, Gua Ge and Xiao Yi reached a reconciliation, and the reunion ending also pushed the warmth of the family to a climax again.
In the hilarious plot of "Crazy Primitives", we witness the evolution of the Guago family from primitive "cavemen" to "civilized people", the evolution here is not only the evolution of their way of life, but also refers to the dissolution of the estrangement of family members and the enhancement of emotions, in the process of their pursuit of "tomorrow", the emotions and bonds between family members are always the hardest armor, helping them to cut through thorns along the way, which is also an important reason why the film can stand out in the fiercely competitive animation market.