The 2013 animation film "Crazy Primitive 1" Douban Movie TOP250 ranked 158, as a non-popular anime work, this evaluation has been very, very eye-catching.
After seven years, the current results of "Crazy Primitive Man 2" are obviously not up to the previous work, but to be honest, the second part can achieve such a height, and in the animation works of the past decade, in addition to the "How to Train Your Dragon" series, the sequel is almost difficult to see such an evaluation.
"Crazy Primitive Man 2" (hereinafter referred to as "Crazy 2", the same reason "Crazy Primitive Man 1" referred to as "Crazy 1") begins with an introduction to the past life of the male protagonist Guy, and then uses a stop-motion animation different from the previous work to simply and accurately introduce the plot of the first part - once again lamenting the precision of the industrialization of American films, and there is no nonsense in the introduction of the plot part - and then leads to the plot of "Crazy 2".
A brief introduction to Madness 1: The Croods family are happy primitive people who hunt for a living and are forced to embark on a journey to find a new home after their home is destroyed. In an accident, the heroine Eap found the male protagonist Guy, and the family traveled together to escape from the end of the homeland and find a new home.
DreamWorks' ability to create dreams is breathtaking, and the dreams of "Crazy 2" can't help but be heart-warming.
The Croods family searches for food and water in a strange and desolate world, and finally finds a paradise under the search of grug, the head of the family. There is an endless supply of food, water, and beautiful scenery.
But Grug obviously did not realize that this paradise was actually home to the owner. The man, Phil, and the hostess, Hope, are the patriarchs of the "Civilized Family".
The two families were put together and saw each other from above. Madness 2's ambitions are also beginning to emerge: this is not a meeting between two families, this is a meeting between two family orders, and then rise to a higher level - this is a meeting of two civilizations.
How high is this level of consciousness? Please refer to "The Three-Body Problem".
The confluence of the two civilizations is the highest level of confluence known.
That's why it will be said that "Crazy 2" integrates the surprise of deep thinking into the film under the tight and seamless routine.
At this time, what is most needed is a tool of communication that allows dialogue between the two civilizations. The cleverness of the "Crazy Primitive" series is that in the first part of the film, it pulled out a "wild child" Guy who can integrate all civilizations.
In fact, Guy is not the finishing touch of the film, but it is the fuse and thread of the film. His communication skills run through the entire "Madness" series, and if this series will produce a third part, he will still be the fuse and lead, but you will never like him the most.
This once again throws out another subtlety of the American film industry: all characters, no matter how outwardly or internally outstanding, cannot escape one thing — flaws.
Back in the film, Guy is the first "civilized man" to adapt to the "Betterman" civilization, and everything in the paradise seems to him to be a surprise.
Grug, the head of the family who has always been most opposed to Guy, not only always opposes this paradise, but also directly challenges the most important rule in The Taoyuan - not to eat bananas.
At this point, the theme of the film has been revealed: the collision and exchange between two completely different civilizations, and how to integrate these two civilizations with each other, is the core contradiction of this movie.
The script also makes a very clever arrangement for this: the banana that Phil of the "Betterman" civilization strives to protect, and grug tries to invade, is the ultimate need of the third civilization, the Iron Fist Monkey, in addition to these two civilizations.
The Iron Fist Monkey Clan has been sacrificing bananas to the big bosses, so it has survived. Grug eats all the bananas because of his dissatisfaction with another civilization, and the direct consequence of this behavior is that the Iron Fist Monkey disguises the captured Grug, Guy, and Phil as bananas and sacrifices them to the invisible boss.
The real surprise of the film is that at this time, the sharp fangs are finally revealed: the men are arrested, and the women have to embark on the road of searching for it - gender differences and civilization differences have joined this war without smoke.
The original fear that the sequel would be a cliché has come to an end here, and the film has finally revealed its surprise until this time: this is not the story of a barbarian breaking into the new world, nor is it a clash between two civilizations, but how do we make each other sympathetic when your consciousness and my consciousness are contrary.
How the plot is not revealed much later, the value of the film is still whether you want to see it, not how much you know.
The unknown is the surprise, the known is only doomed.
Mad Primitive Man 2: Compared to which civilization you are in, how you perceive yourself is the most deadly. You think of yourself as a cave girl, you are a cave girl, and if you consider yourself a thunderbolt sister flower, you are the most brilliant thunderbolt sister flower.
Even if there are thousands of iron fist monkeys in front of you, your goal is still unwavering.
This is Mad Hominid 2, and this is the free you.
"Crazy Hominid 2" seems to bring two different families together, but it is actually talking about two civilizations. It seems to be talking about the difference between high and low civilizations, but in fact, it is looking for whether there are real differences between civilizations.
Everyone uses issues that need to be tackled together.
Deep enough to have such a deep meaning is the original intention of "Crazy Primitive Man 2".
The most important thing is not that you are getting stronger, but the most important thing is that we all become stronger together.
"Crazy Primitive Man 2", originally thought that you would have the same shortcomings as all anime sequels, but after seeing the end, I finally understood: such a transparent movie - must be recommended!