With the implementation of the two-child or even three-child policy, a family with multiple children has become a common phenomenon in today's society, and the problem of how parents as elders should distribute their care and love for their children, as well as the problem of how to coexist peacefully between children, and these two problems are accompanied by psychological problems caused by the uneven distribution of parents' concerns, and even in serious cases, crimes have attracted social attention.
"Baby Boss" is an animated film released in the United States in 2017, "Baby Boss" from DreamWorks with high-quality narrative level and sophisticated animation production, won the 90th Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film Award nomination, although it was not as good as "Dream Quest" and missed the award, but its attention to social issues and the excellent production standards presented by the entire animation are still well received by the audience. Starting from the perspective of seven-year-old Tim, the film creatively reproduces the imaginary space full of exaggerated effects from the perspective of children, and jumps on the screen the uneasiness that Tim, a child who originally lived under the care and love of his parents, when facing his newborn brother, jumped on the screen. In fact, there are not a few films that carry out artistic creation on the topic of the second child problem, but "Baby Boss" shows the adult world from the perspective of children in an all-round way with its amazing imagination, and reflects on the topic of sharing and love from the perspective of children.
1. Children's perspective
For animation films can be roughly divided into two categories, that is, animation films made for children and animation films for adults, from the perspective of domestic animation films, in recent years, domestic animation films have shown a multi-dimensional, wide-ranging development trend, animation film themes not only continue to choose IP from literature, legends and other familiar traditional stories in the past, narrative choices for series creation, such as "Nezha" series of movies, "White Snake" series of movies and "Fengshen List" series of movies, and there are mainly animation films outside, Children's animated films for children, such as the "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf" series of movies and the "Bear Haunting" series of movies, even including comic films and excellent innovative theme creations, such as "Big Fish and Begonias" and "Luo Xiaohei".
But in fact, the spread and classification of animated films is not as clear as other films, and many animated films made for children have been well received by adults. For example, the "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf" series of movies and the "Bear Haunting" theme films constantly ask and answer practical questions such as friendship, family affection, environmental destruction and protection, and peaceful coexistence between man and nature, so that adults can achieve the effect of edutainment in the process of watching movies, which is also the height that most drama films cannot reach. But in general, most of the domestic animation movies from the perspective of adults, with entertainment effects as the mainstay, supplemented by educational effects, to create animation films specially made for Chinese children, from this characteristic point of view, "Baby Boss" breaks the adult perspective, from the beginning of the narrative to the perspective of children, creating an adult world in the eyes of children.
Narratively speaking, the second child is like a monster for children who originally enjoyed the love of their parents, and their appearance breaks the advantage of exclusiveness and forces them to learn to share while learning to love each other, so in the film, the director uses the technique of repeating narrative, repeating the scene of the brother's first coming to the home at the end of the opening credit, and after learning to accept the appearance of the younger brother, the adventure with the younger brother and the clue of the event of losing the younger brother, the same scene appears in front of Tim again, passive commitment becomes active acceptance The film also ended completely. From a logical point of view, the brother's boss identity and dream is a miniature version of the parent's identity and dream, the only appearance of the world from the perspective of children, and from the contradiction between the baby company and the puppy company, the biggest contradiction is that the emergence of the pet dog has taken away the love and care that the parents poured into the child, just as the appearance of the younger brother has taken away the care of the parents, and the same is the reflection of another angle under the cognition of the child.
Second, imagine space
From the perspective of the overall logical relationship and animation presentation of the film, the film aims to create an imaginary world of Tim under the impact of the second child, and this thematic perspective is constructed from the beginning of the film. From the beginning of the film, the director first reveals his imaginative character settings through Tim's monologue and his dialogue with his parents, and is reflected by a series of imaginary and real-life scene changes, and such imaginary worlds are more richly presented through spatial transformations in the subsequent adventures with his brother. First of all, through the transformation of children's perspectives and adult perspectives, spatial forms under different perspectives are created. When Tim wants to reveal the mysterious identity of his brother through recording, Tim and a group of child agents engage in a confrontational adventure, the film through a series of fast-paced scene actions and dynamic background music contrast, creating a fierce competition scene, and when the audience is drawn to the battle under Tim's perspective, the perspective cuts back to the parents, the rhythm of the picture under the parents' perspective is slowed down, and the transformation of the perspective reflects the imagination and exaggeration of space.
Secondly, the juxtaposition of multiple imaginative spaces constructs a children's world. As the biggest highlight, the film combines the events themselves in the narrative process to construct multiple imaginative spaces, of which there are three more representative scenes, one of which is that when the younger brother first arrives at home, the corridor connecting the bedroom presents a black line texture, and the originally familiar warm home becomes a dark and eerie other space, reflecting the fear and uneasiness of Tim's inner world in the face of great changes. The second is that when the brother almost hurts the younger brother due to the competition for the tape, the parents lock him in the room, and under the vision of Tim after the grounding, the bedroom becomes the appearance of a prison, including the alarm clock, until the younger brother pushes the door and enters the imaginary space to be covered by the real space, and the imaginary prison is the external appearance of Tim's inner grievances after being forced to be grounded. The third is that Tim embarks on an adventure with his brother to fulfill his brother's wishes. If the first two imaginary spaces are a manifestation of Tim's closed inner world, then when Tim begins to accept his brother from the heart, he can appear in the imagination space with his brother, and the two become pirates to become partners in adventure together, and it is Tim's acceptance of his brother from the heart that achieves the final reunion ending of the film.
At the end of the film, the iron triangle relationship between father, mother and me, plus my brother, they fight against all the world's problems with love, seemingly breaking the world's most stable triangle form, but actually creating a tough love shape. The film focuses on how children should accept new family members in two-child families, and thinks about children's issues from a child's perspective to create a new model for children's films.