In "Tom and Jerry", Tom chased Jerry for 163 episodes, and in "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf", Gray Wolf did not eat a bite of lamb for more than 800 episodes. Although Tom was teased by Jerry every time, we didn't get bored; although gray wolves lost to the lambs of the green steppe every time, we never felt bored. Because we are amused by their entangled stories, and the meaning of their existence with each other is actually to give each other a response that will never be ignored.
In the movie "Super Bad", because of the "Great Panic" in the alien world, the urban superman (Metroman) and Megamind are sent to Earth, but the difference is that one goes to the rich man's house and the other goes to prison. Coupled with the fact that Urban Superman is born with superpowers, Megamind looks ugly and unpleasant, so their life trajectory points in two opposite directions - good and evil.
Because he was isolated from childhood and considered to be the evil party, Megamind believes that fate has made him a villain, and his so-called "fate" is just the result of being misled again and again.
Although this film is ostensibly a story of good and evil, in the final analysis, its main core is actually to explain to us the meaning of existence.
Megamind has taken pleasure in creating trouble and fighting against the city superman in his life, although sometimes he wins and sometimes loses, the two of them have never really hurt each other, and Megamind has only gone to prison again and again to escape from prison, and then continues to think of new things to "play" with city superman after coming out.
By chance, Urban Superman was finally defeated by him, and although it was the result of Megamind's inadvertent efforts, he finally got the final victory after all these years and became the one who controlled the entire metropolis. However, it seems that this result did not make Megamind happy, but instead left him in a cage of loneliness.
Megamind: "I'm tired of running around like a demon, not interfering with your process, what's the point of me being a villain." ”
We need to find the meaning and value of existence in order to live happily, otherwise it is just a walking corpse, talking about what to pursue.
Megamind has been very intelligent since childhood, has always been inventing and creating, and the tricks and tools for Urban Superman to "tailor" against him are his greatest source of happiness. And when The City Superman is gone, the meaning of Megamind's life also disappears, because no one pays attention to what he does, and no one has the ability to compete with him, so that he who is "always hungry and thirsty, never satisfied" feels unprecedentedly boring.
In order to regain the joy of life, Megamind himself created a new Superman called Titan, but titans are full of only his personal interests, coupled with lazy nature, and have no intention of fighting Megamind. But thanks to the Titans' decadence and evil, Megamind finally found that he didn't want to be a villain for a long time.
Compared to the Titans who are truly blinded by evil, Megamind's heart is still good. When he fights the Titans, he also discovers that the Titans really want to kill him, and that City Superman has never just subdued him.
Coupled with the absence of Urban Superman, Megamind also had a story with the righteous journalist Roshan Richie, in order to return the beloved Roshan a happy and safe world, but also in order to make his life meaningful, Megamind took on the responsibility of Urban Superman and became the hero of the metropolis.
Megamind becomes Bernard
Although Megamind's attributes have changed, the meaning of life he pursues has not changed, that is, to find the value of his existence. If it's not for yourself, it's for the people you love.
This is not only true of him, but also his pet Minion.
When Megamind came to Earth, his parents asked Minin to accompany him and take care of him, which means that he came with a mission in the first place, in order to give Megamind a dependency.
Minion is the only "own person" to Megamind, the only creature on Earth who comes from the same planet as him. The meaning of its existence is not for its own sake, but more for Megamind, embodying a kind of "paying personality".
The giving personality believes that if you can reflect your own value in the happiness of others, it is also a kind of happiness. But they are also different from service personalities, because the word "service" has a more "hierarchical distinction", but it is clear that the status of Minin and Megamind tends to be equal.
What's more interesting is that Megamind will become somewhat similar to the giving personality when facing The Minin, although it is not so obvious, but because of the understanding of each other, they have been perfecting each other. He added a strong "body" to Minion's little water balloon; kept his promise to "add a 'code' before every word he said to the other person"; and although he drove Minion away in one breath, he began to look for it as soon as he returned. For The sake of Minin, Megamind can also give everything, and the two of them are "relatives" without any secrets.
Compared to the villain who dictates to his pets or subordinates, Megamind is reflected in the role of Minion, and without the comedic effect of the two of them, Megamind may show a war machine without emotion.
The second half of the film reveals to us the fact that Urban Superman is not dead, he just borrows Megamind's tricks to make everyone think he is dead, and hides himself to live a leisurely and comfortable life.
Urban Superman: "Since I can remember, it has always been the city that wants me to do what I want, so who will fulfill my wishes." ”
Some people are born superior, but such superiority makes them always bear heavy responsibilities and have no opportunity to unload. To exaggerate, it seems that the rich should regard helping the people at the bottom as their responsibility, and if they refuse to help, it is as if it is their fault.
But do capable people necessarily have to have this "big self" spirit?
It should not be a pity that only the people at the bottom cannot live a good life, and it is also a pity that those who can not choose to live their own small lives easily are also a pity. For example, in "Avengers 4", after playing than Thanos who returned to the countryside, what he wanted was actually far simpler than we thought.
After being discovered, Urban Superman said to Megamind, "It took me a long time to find my own life, now it's time for you to find yours." "Sure enough, City Superman knows Megamind, and after so many years of being noisy, he is the one who understands best what Megamind's true mission really is.
This is a film with rich themes, because it not only conveys to us the correct view of good and evil, but also shows us how to create the value of our own existence and find the meaning of existence.
People may constantly update what they pursue in this life, but the general direction will not change, because in the process of forming values and outlook on life little by little, what we hope to be shown is also fixed. In simple terms, it is the personality characteristics that we want to show to everyone, and in the complex, it is what kind of meaning we want to find in this society.
Megamind is a hero who mistakenly believes that he is destined to be a villain, and Urban Superman is a person who only wants to live a small life but is born with superpowers. At the beginning, because they were misled by the outside world, they chose a life direction that did not belong to them, but after a long period of life search, their concepts were repaired, and finally they found a breakthrough in change and traced the true meaning of their existence.
Just like Megamind and Urban Superman, we don't need to worry about how far we will go in the process, because to find the "meaning of existence", we have to truly feel the environment in which we exist, and finally find out where we really belong in life.