Pixar is probably the animation company that is best at materializing the spirit world.
In "Brain Task Force", the division of labor of the brain is controlled by 5 emotional people with different personalities;
In "Dream Quest", death and oblivion continue to be staged on the other side of the bridge;
In "Psychic Journey", the soul becomes a blue elf.
Recently, Pixar has also objectified the rebellion of adolescence, not the stereotype of teeth and claws, but a soft and fluffy red red panda.
Nowadays, the film has been online for half a month, with a Douban score of 8.2 points, and countless audiences have empathized with the "red pier". If you've also experienced bad adolescence, maybe it makes you feel better—
The Metamorphosis of Youth.
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Looking at the plot alone, "The Metamorphosis of Youth" is really a bit old-fashioned, which is the story of an adolescent girl who has a conflict with her mother and finally reconciles.
But the interesting thing is that it has turned the invisible adolescent rebellion into a huge red red panda that can really sell cuteness and hair.
The protagonist, Xiaomei, is a middle school girl who has just turned 13 years old, like many Chinese girls, she receives a Western academic education, has good academic performance, and is especially good at mathematics;
At the same time, she also receives a traditional Chinese family education. The first rule of the family is filial piety to your parents, who give you life and food, and in return you need to be responsive to your parents' needs.
But sometimes, the other side of filial piety, does it mean forgetting to respect yourself?
Xiaomei originally thought that she did not have any troubles in this regard, she loved to learn, and she would also return to the family ancestral hall after class to help her mother. Although I sometimes miss singing karaoke with my good friends, it's just because today is a cleaning day.
Until one day, she developed strange feelings for a boy. Unexpectedly, the secret was discovered by her mother, and the little lover turned into Taisha and died.
That night, Xiaomei had a nightmare in which the boy turned into a beautiful male fish and was made into a consistent sushi.
The next day, she woke up exhausted, life was as usual, but there was something different.
The footsteps became particularly heavy, the chandelier overhead seemed to be shorter than usual, the toilet became a little smaller, and even the mirror was so short that he could not see his face.
Xiaomei yawned and looked in the mirror, but she was awake in an instant.
she...... It became... One... Red... hairy...... Red pandas!
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Seeing this, I believe many people have thought that the red panda represents the bud of adolescence and the first menarche of girls.
Mom nervously took out the sanitary napkins, ibuprofen, vitamin B, thermos, prepared lunch and extra snacks for her, and even tried to enlighten her about the psychological changes of girls' menarche.
It seems that her mother knows xiaomei's feelings about puberty, but in fact, she does not understand xiaomei.
Xiaomei likes the four-city band, her mother does not understand, and even thinks that the girl who likes this band is a little strange;
Xiaomei and her friends secretly earn money to buy concert tickets, and her mother directly teaches her friends a lesson and keeps them away from her daughter;
Xiaomei is afraid of being noticed with strange eyes, but her mother has taken the initiative to push Xiaomei into such a vision again and again:
Crush on the boy, the mother directly brought her to the boy to reprimand the other party;
Afraid of becoming different, her mother secretly observed Xiaomei in class behind the tree, and after being driven away by the security guards, she shouted Xiaomei's name, making Xiaomei once again the object of ridicule by the boys.
Do you think that such an encounter seems familiar?
"Youth Metamorphosis" director Shi Zhiyu once had a short film "Bao Bao", both of which are about Asian family education.
The difference is that in "Bao Bao Bao", in the face of the child's emotional outburst, the mother chooses to eat the child in one bite, while in "The Metamorphosis of Youth", the mother cares about Xiaomei's adolescence, but uses the wrong method.
As an Asian who grew up in a Western country, Shi Zhiyu grew up with his mother, and the two were relatives and best friends.
She knows how to be filial to her mother, but she has also experienced rebellion and secrets that she does not want her mother to know. Therefore, in adolescence, like Xiaomei, he will continue to struggle and choose between filial piety and being himself.
Shi Zhiyu once said in an interview that most of the encounters of Xiaomei in the film came from his own personal experience and that of his team members.
For example, her mother secretly paid attention to Xiaomei's every move in class behind the tree, which came from Shi Zhiyu's real experience, although it was not to the extent of fighting with the security guards, but it was enough to make her die at that time.
Dreams about the boy also come from her own feelings.
Xiaomei scribbled on the draft book, but drew a naked boy, and only afterwards did she realize what she had drawn. This is Xiaomei's unconscious expression of her desires, and before that, she herself had never realized this.
In the dream, the boy becomes a beautiful male fish that jumps around alive but is made into sushi, which means that Xiaomei wants to control her desires. The reason why it is a fish tail instead of the real lower body is because Xiaomei does not understand the real physiological sense of men.
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In the film, the adolescent desires and egos are objectified into red pandas, as opposed to the tradition and rationality represented by green.
Xiaomei's grandmother, mother and aunt all use green as the main color, and they all have the ability to become red pandas, but when they reach a certain age, they will hold a ceremony on the night of the red moon to drive out the red pandas in their bodies and lock them in one of their important ornaments.
In our perspective, mom has always been an omnipotent mom, and grandma has always been a kind and strict grandma. But they were also young and rebellious.
It is only in the face of the pressure of traditional dogma that they compromise, accept, and gradually become mothers and wives in the eyes of society.
Xiaomei's mother always wears exquisite green professional clothes, and does not dare to be sloppy in the face of her grandmother. Only the scars on her father's and grandmother's faces knew how destructive she was when she turned into a red panda.
What made a rebellious mother become a conformist mother, and what made a grandmother a grandmother who did not smile?
One thing that the film doesn't explicitly say is the father who is absent in homeschooling.
In Xiaomei's home, her mother is responsible for taking care of her career and is also responsible for caring for Xiaomei's growth. And Dad is almost semi-invisible, only when Xiaomei is caught in self-doubt, he comes out as a "spiritual teacher".
Just like sometimes when children are asked to choose "Daddy is good or Mommy is good", some children will choose Daddy. Because Dad would buy her good food, and Mom would only discipline her.
Shi Zhiyu also said in an interview that he grew up almost dependent on his mother, and his father rarely cared about her because of his work.
At the end of the film, Xiaomei, her father and all her relatives pull back the out-of-control mother, and Xiaomei's mother also agrees to let Xiaomei keep the red panda in her body.
Concentricity, understanding, mutual help, perhaps this is what Shi Zhiyu wants to express, the definition of home.
Today's Topic:
Did you also experience incomprehension from your family during your adolescence?
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Text: Yun Yu
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