When I was a child, I heard the story of Cao Chong calling an elephant, and at that time I only thought that the elephant was a bulky giant.
I learned later that they were actually very interesting. Small eyes, big body, long nose, can sleep standing, can play hippie, can shed tears, and can tell each other emotions.
Later, in a film, I learned that elephants will also "recognize poison", which simply refreshed the editor's understanding of elephants! Today I would like to introduce you to a movie about elephants - the story takes place in 1941, after the outbreak of the Pacific War.
Elephant Hanako
<h1>Elephant's Girl</h1>
During the war, the Inokashira Natural Culture Park in Musashino City, Tokyo, was still open to the public. John, Tang Ji and Hanako are three beloved elephants that delight visitors with fun performances every day.
Until one day, the head of the park, Nishimura, brought a bad news that broke all this beauty.
"The superiors instructed that in order to prevent the air raids that could occur at any time and blow up the fence in the park, so that the beasts of prey escaped out of the street, all the beasts of prey must be executed."
The staff of the park, led by Yoshioka (an elephant keeper), repeatedly persuaded the director to change his mind and proposed to transfer the animals to Sendai, but they were rejected by the superior leaders and eventually had to bow to reality.
On August 17, 1943, keepers began executing the animals they kept. Fearing that shooting animals would cause panic among nearby residents, they could only poison them.
Some animals die half an hour after taking feed injected with toxic liquid. But there are also animals that do not die after taking the drug or refuse to eat poisonous feed, and they can only be stabbed to death or strangled in the end...
Finally, it was John, Tang Ji and Hanako's turn to be the three elephants.
Yoshioka took the poisonous food and scattered it on the ground as usual, hoping that the elephants would eat it.
However, the three elephants not only did not eat it, but also rolled it up with their noses and fell heavily on the ground, and even the poisonous sweet potatoes hidden in Yoshioka's pocket were also pulled out.
But failure to take poison does not mean that elephants have survived.
The superior began to find a way, "If you can't use bamboo thorns, use ropes, or use the thickest horse needles, then let the elephants starve to death!" ”
After a few days, the elephants, who had not drunk water or eaten, lost weight dramatically! Poor John, the first to be starved to death...
On September 4, the mayor called on the citizens to hold a memorial service for the animals, while the elephant Hanako and Tang Ji were still supporting each other and struggling to support each other.
How painful is it to wait to starve to death? How torturous is this process?
A heart-wrenching scene appeared, where Tonyoshi and Hanako, who were already as thin as skeletons, cried and performed vigorously in front of Yoshioka.
They naively thought that if they did this, they would be able to get food as a reward, but there was no egg.
The two-headed elephant with all gray thoughts, in the last journey of life, penetrated the deepest secret of life.
After a few days, Tang Ji was unable to support itself, and Hanako was afraid that once it fell, she would never be able to stand up again, and kept holding the shaky Tang Ji.
On September 11, Hanako starved to death. On September 23, Tang Ji also left...
Despair in loneliness, be strong in despair! Before dying, several elephants showed their cherishing and forbearance of life, which made people cry in an instant, and many people bluntly said that they could not bear to watch it a second time...
Two years later, the war ended. As the narrator says, "This moment came too late..."
In 1949, a young boy named Hefu wrote a letter and put 10 yuan in the envelope, hoping to buy the elephant and let his sister, who had been frail since childhood, see the elephant.
The letter was published in the newspaper, and Thailand then presented Japan with a baby female elephant that was only two years old, and the little boy's wish was fulfilled.
The head of the kindergarten asks that the elephants are still raised by Yoshioka, and Yoshioka, who was once depressed because he once killed three elephants with his own hands, chose to revive his children's dreams.
The zoo also took the advice of most citizens and Yoshioka and named the elephant "Hanako".
Unfortunately, when the little boy took two admission tickets and was ready to tell his sister the good news, her sister had passed away...
Life goes on, and Yoshioka, who has come out of the poisoning of the beast, and together with his new colleague Takano, he devotes himself to training Hanako and passing on his life's experience to Takano.
In the spring of 1954, 7-year-old Hanako was sent to inokashira Zoo, and Yoshioka left the Cultural Park.
Hanako, who lives in the zoo, soon becomes a popular star in the park, but she is not happy.
Slowly, Hanako begins to feel lonely and stressed, her temper begins to become irritable, and then the tragedy of the drunken man being killed and the keeper being trampled to death.
Hanako was imprisoned and no longer visited, and some even offered to kill her.
When Takano learns of Hanako's situation, he travels to the zoo alone and is determined to rescue Hanako.
In order to restore Hanako's friendship and trust to humans, Takano painstakingly studied countermeasures. At the same time, he also taught Yoshioka the breeding techniques that Yoshioka had taught him to sawagi, a keeper at the zoo.
Under the care of Takano and Sawaki, Hanako gradually opens her heart and slowly changes back to her original appearance.
Time passed for many years, but Hanako, who was already 36 years old, became depressed and her teeth began to fall out. Takano slept and forgot to eat, and immersed himself in researching ways to get Hanako to eat, but was opposed and isolated by his family.
Happily, Hanako's problem of eating was solved, and her health gradually improved.
In the blink of an eye, Takano is also retiring. "In the same way that Yoshioka left Hanako", Takano pretended to leave as usual, but said "see you tomorrow" to Hanako.
Sensuous Hanako sensed all this, and let out a long cry across the fence, her eyes filled with endless tears...
Animal feelings are sometimes pure and even more heartbreaking than family affection.
Unfortunately, Takano died of cancer soon after, and Yosuke finally chose to be a breeder like his father and continue to take care of Hanako instead of his father.
At the end of the film, an old man in a wheelchair appears at the zoo, and after seeing the elephant, he mutters to himself that he is the little boy and husband who wrote the letter.
When the old man's eyes appeared in the vision of the two brothers and sisters watching the elephant together, he once again poked the audience with tears...
This Douban score of 8.1 points of the film, the plot from beginning to end is not deliberately sensational, there is no unnecessary drag, the plot is tight, bringing the audience into the plot, and even let the audience feel the emotional emotions of the elephant.
In this movie, the elephants with the aura of the protagonist are not inferior to the human beings in the blazing emotions.
Many plots are also combined with events that occur in reality, which is thought-provoking.
Like humans, elephants who should live in groups are less likely to be vulnerable than humans, lonely and fearful, and emotionally stressed without the company of their companions.
Instinctively to protect themselves, elephants attacked humans who approached them, but humans accused and even put them to death on the basis of their appearance. What is the difference between this and the "high-level black" behavior of poisoning and killing beasts in the war?
George Bernard Sauer once said:
The act of human shooting tigers we call movement. Tigers killing humans are described as atrocities.
Isn't that what happened to the elephant in the film?
In recent years, animal injuries and killings have occurred from time to time, and the relationship between humans and animals, especially beasts of prey, has become increasingly tense.
Animal emotions may not be as complex as humans, but once the power of the flood breaks out, they definitely do not have the heart to "take what is good".
It is not difficult for humans and animals to maintain harmony.
Give animals the freedom to express their nature, freedom from fear and sorrow, and the necessary moral care;
Overcome human cruelty, indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate hunting of animals, so as to treat every individual of animals in a civilized manner, and ensure the continuation and development of every species of animals.
For endangered species, in addition to the artificial breeding that is being carried out by the relevant departments, human beings are more obliged to create a natural home for them to live comfortably without hunger and thirst.
We should not forget the fact that man is actually an animal too!
Article source | Film Magazine (ID: dianyingzazhi8)
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