I don't know when it started, inspiration has become one of the most important themes of Guoman.
Since the beginning of "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending", I have paid attention. Until last year's "Jiang Ziya" and this year's "White Snake 2: Green Snake Robbery", the protagonist always had to roar at the sky.
Things like "My life is up to me" and "Sacrifice innocent people, is this the way of heaven?"
So the audience was lit, followed by evaluations such as "exploded", "the most burning of the year", and "inspirational masterpiece".
This type of line, maybe when you first watch it, the adrenaline glands will indeed soar, but when they are happy and repeated shouting, I can't sit still.
What are you calling?
Can this also be called inspirational?
What is an inspirational movie?
Inspirational movies are never about success, but about the process of constant struggle.
The great "The Shawshank Redemption", is its focus on the later escape?
With the same name as "The Shawshank Redemption", "Forrest Gump", is it not about the process of Forrest Gump's growth?
Even if the film is centered on an event, it shouldn't be results-oriented.
If at the end of "Lion Boy", the protagonist fails to skip Optimus Prime, I can consider giving an extra star.
So this movie conveys the idea that only success can be inspirational, but what about failure?
Isn't there such a famous saying? Failure is the mother of success.
Hell, this mother is so unpopular.
There are also many inspirational movies that have failed, and Haruka Ayase once starred in such a movie - "Big Breast Volleyball".
Don't think of it when you see the name, this film is very inspirational.
A group of students train hard for a secret that cannot be said, but in the end, they fail.
But I never felt that it was not inspirational or that it conveyed a negative emotion, and who said that the ending of an inspirational movie cannot be a failure?
Recently, a Polish film "The Blind Organist" was released, and the protagonist can be said to be a loser all the way to the end, and in the end he committed suicide, but when I watched it, I was shocked by the exuberance of life and the burst of social struggle.
This is the real inspirational movie!
Who in their youth didn't do something because of a passion? But what are the odds of success?
It's like when I was in high school, the homeroom teacher gave a speech on the podium, and the whole class exploded.
"Peking University or Tsinghua, which is better?"
But the truth is, we think too much.
"Lion Boy" simplifies the complex topic of "inspiration" to only one successful result, and I was really shocked to say a word.
Romain Roland once said that there is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, after seeing through the nature of the world, he still loves life.
Chinese cartoonists have redefined this sentence, and there is only one kind of heroism in the world, that is, heroism in the form of fighting chicken blood.
Isn't it ironic that you don't even look at the world much and talk about inspiration?
In this world, there are many people with a passion for blood, but most of them have little to do with success.
If success must be related to hot blood, that is, after seeing through the truth of the world, you still have hot blood.
Realistically, I don't think this type of film is any different from the kind of lecturer course that "sells success studies" a few years ago.
The characters in the national comic shout at the sky at every turn, and the slogans of the lecturers on the podium are no different.
Just two words: flicker!
Speaking of the movie itself, "The Lion Boy" has not been so disgusted by the efforts made in the previous inspirational process, rather than blindly gaging.
But it is just the opposite, taking care of one or the other, is the experience of "Lion Boy" inspirational? Gags can also be called inspirational?
As some netizens said, if success is really as simple and easy as in the movie, why is our life still so hard today?
This kind of animation is really quite naïve, and I will not talk about its impact on people, lest someone say that I am a three-way party, and it is very negative for the development of the whole animated film.
Yes, it makes Guoman return to the early childhood again.
In other words, this kind of inspirational film is actually another form of childishness!
Before the emergence of the term "rise of the national comic", everyone mentioned the national comic, and more thought was of the low child.
Later, Guoman finally grew from five or six years old to his teens, and then you look back, he stopped in his teens, can't you go forward?
Many netizens commented on "Bear Haunting" and "Pleasant Goat", the children watched with relish, and the parents looked sleepy.
So why isn't "Lion Boy" your "Bear Haunting" and "Pleasant Goat"?
When you have experienced the storms of life, when you watch this kind of movie again, isn't it also a drowsiness?
In fact, I want to say that the real inspiration exists in our daily lives, the brother who delivers takeaways, the students in the library, and everyone who works hard for life. It's no more inspirational than playing chicken blood!
At the end of the day, a movie like "The Lion Boy" is not called inspirational, it's just an illusion.
The director's illusion of life is projected in the movie, and then projected on the audience, and when you look back a few years later, what inspirational, it is ridiculous!