Foreword: With the development of human civilization, the living environment of human beings continues to expand, and the living environment of living creatures in nature is becoming more and more narrow, and even has no foothold. The animals and plants of nature have to survive in the slits of the human world, and I don't know when it began, this human world full of high-rise buildings, there are no more birds crossing the sky. When will humans be able to think differently from the perspective of other creatures?
Text | Two-dimensional Ye Luoli
Ghibli's work has always explored the relationship between human beings, society and nature, whether it is a fanciful conception or a bland narrative, it can always impress every audience with a story, and its works are not only to give the audience the most shocking visual and spiritual enjoyment, but also sometimes a kind of soul torture, how should human beings and nature coexist in harmony?
"Changeable Tanuki" is directed by Takahata, and the immortal work "Tomb of the Fireflies" that has touched countless people is from takahata's hand, but the work of "The Hundred Variations of the Tanuki" does not have the tear-jerking style of "Tomb of the Fireflies", but is shaped by a very funny and ridiculous plot: human beings destroy nature! This time is not from the perspective of human beings to explore the relationship between humans and nature, but from the perspective of animal tanuki cats to look at human behavior, more interesting is that tanuki cats become human beings, to feel the human world, this kind of empathy script, can not help but make people reflect on whether the way humans live is a bit excessive?
"The Changeable Tanuki Cat" tells the story of human beings constantly expanding their living space, and the Tanuki cat family has to cultivate the ancestors' hundred changes to fight against humans. However, even though Tanuki learns the magic of change, creates accidents at the Tama construction site, etc., but still can't shake the attitude of humans to nature, the protagonist Masayoshi tries to solve problems in a human way, incarnating as a human, and integrating into the life of the human world, but life makes him breathless.
<h1>Tanuki cats have versatile abilities, but they cannot stop humans</h1>
Although tanuki cats have the ability to change, they are insignificant in the human world, and the influence of human beings on the natural world is often not the work of some people, but the inevitable result of the development of the entire social civilization. Even if tanuki smashes the entire Tama construction site, in fact, such destruction has little impact on the human world.
Tanuki cats are only a minority of human beings, and tanuki cats will not be fruitful in their struggle. The so-called environmental protection is defined by human beings themselves, and human beings' demand for nature is always based on the premise of their own interests, and the transformation of the environment is also determined by their own position. The Tanuki cat family alone cannot shake the transformation of natural resources and the environment by humans. Even some conservative tanuki cats try to stop humans by pretending to be human, and even want to change their right to live, but for selfish humans, tanuki cat behavior does not work.
<h1>A brief discussion on the empathy of people and tanuki cats</h1>
From the perspective of human beings, human beings only conform to their own interests and constantly create the value of survival. From the perspective of tanuki cats, humans are greedy and constantly compress the living space of other creatures. Tanuki may wonder, why can humans be so selfish and never consider the survival value of others? But precisely because of human selfishness, the excessive exploitation of nature, in the eyes of human beings, this is a kind of progress, a kind of proper development. When this kind of demand becomes a matter of course for human beings, how can human beings think differently and consider the problems of other creatures?
Tanuki cats cannot understand human selfishness and desire. The protagonist of the story is not a human, but a tanuki cat family, who have the ability to disguise humans, and he tries to enter the human world, become a member of the human world, think about human nature, and try to find the problem. Or it can help solve the problem of the living space of tanuki cats.
The protagonist Masayoshi experiences the life of the human world as a human being, going to work, leaving work, and squeezing the subway, why do humans live such a repetitive lifestyle? In fact, Masayoshi does not understand, but the only reason that can be realized is that this human world is not suitable for the survival of tanuki cats, human beings are constantly changing the environment, and the efforts of the Tanuki cat family alone cannot prevent human influence on the natural world.
<h1>Empathy is not a human but a tanuki. </h1>
If this story tells the human impact on the environment in a human way, but makes this "environment" theme work seem a bit cheesy, human beings are actually as natural reformers, and then from a human point of view to accuse human crimes, it makes people feel very contradictory.
But this work is transposed from the perspective of animals, so that animals are completely human, what is it like? In addition to helplessness or helplessness, or can only feel the smallness of their own strength, this kind of empathetic thinking story way, can really let the audience have a sense of substitution, if you are this tanuki cat that is compressed to survive, how will it feel to live a human life?
<h1>Human beings regard themselves as higher creatures, how can he think of nature in a different position? </h1>
In this natural world, both tanuki cats and humans are originally part of the natural world and should have equal rights to survive. But all this equality is destroyed by "ability", and man's ability to transform nature is doomed to the survival rights of other creatures to appear very small.
Human beings continue to demand and expand, the more greedy human beings are, the more difficult it is for the Tanuki cat family to persuade and change human beings even if they have the ability to change, and human beings have achieved the development of civilization while ignoring the harmony between humans and nature. Should humans be worth thinking about their own problems? Empathy for each other's living environment?
Finally, Tanuki And his friends reunite and work together to use mana to create a green nature. The theme of the environmental protection type is nothing more than to warn everyone to love nature, and the final ending seems to be very beautiful, but the pace of human development has not stopped, the things made by spells are false, if human beings do not think differently, the destruction of the natural world cannot be recovered.
<h1>Write in the last words:</h1>
Although "The Ever-Changing Tanuki Cat" involves the harmonious development of human beings and nature, it actually contains some thoughts on life. Tanuki cats change their identity to live in the human world, why aren't we tanuki cats that will transform? In a strange city, in order to adapt to urban life, I constantly live myself like someone else, but I always want to return to my beautiful hometown. When our homes are destroyed and transformed, we weep in strange cities. We can't stop urban planning and development, and the once small streams and tree-lined countryside are long gone from the familiar memories of the past. The crying of tanuki cats is also the crying of us adults.