We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Wilde
This anime is adapted from the classic best-selling picture book of the famous Belgian female painter Gabriel Vincent, the film was nominated for the French César Award for Best Animated Film and the 86th Academy Awards.
The film tells the story of a bear and a mouse accidental encounter, the establishment of a seemingly impossible friendship, the story uses the same elements of the setting of "Romeo and Juliet" and "This Killer Is Not Too Cold", the two protagonists are completely different from the birth environment to the race, accidentally met, after experiencing an adventure and events to become the indispensable best friend of this life, after suffering obstruction and trial, two bears and rats that are very different finally live together. The feelings of a bear and a mouse in the story are pure beauty without any gender color and lust.
Through the wonderful setting of the scene and the courage to break the prejudice and shackles, the director conveys to us the courage to break the prejudice and shackles and the rare heart of the child.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > storyline: full of romantic French warmth, funny and warm behind, the expression of hope for the purest emotions of human beings</h1>
Before the encounter between Ait Bear and Xena Mouse, the story is a two-line narrative that tells the situation of the two protagonists of the film, and at the beginning of the film, Grandma La Grace of the Monastery tells the little mice how terrible creatures the bear is.
On the other side, Aite Bear went out on the street to sell art without any money, and was about to starve to death. Although Aite and Xena live in different places and appear on camera, what is the same is that they are not accepted and recognized. One is a poor artist, the other is a backward student with uneven bear teeth, and both sides are in an environment that hypes about the badness of the other race. This "Romeo Juliet"-style setting is infused with warmth and fairy tale settings, so that a bear and a mouse, after experiencing the common tribulations of the police on both sides, found the same person who was not understood and felt sorry for each other, and the friendship began.
The adventure in the first half of the story looks like a lighthearted comedy, while the second half is warm and emotional. The conflict and climax of the film is that in both courtrooms, they vigorously defend each other, causing the anger of the judges on both sides, so that the court is on fire, and they choose to rescue the judge.
And the tear-jerking moment is a hug that both sides desperately run to each other after the trial of innocence. The warmth and beauty of abandoning all prejudices and worldliness and understanding each other is a gentle blow to the souls of our reality bound by rules and worldly prejudices.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the film's setting: a realistic scene setting that implies a satire of the real world and an ideal contrast</h1>
The setting of this film is very interesting, the ground is Bear City, which is the same as ordinary towns, and the underground is Mouse City. Two different races and worlds, but in the same geographical location. The director uses such a setting as the theme of the film, and the extreme closeness of the position of the two races and the extreme distance of the communication distance form an interesting and strong contrast, and this contrast is shown through several specific scenes.
Candy stores and dental stores
The two shops in Bear City were opened by a bear couple, the husband sold sweets, the wife sold teeth, first let the bears who love sweets eat bad teeth, and then go to the dental shop to change teeth. The calculation is just right, and the profit is not lost. The couple even had to be measured in money for educating their children, and was full of worldliness and a "copper stench." Ait Bear was too hungry to eat the dessert shop's things, and Xena Mouse stole the teeth of the dental shop in order not to be discriminated against and suppressed.
The presence of these two stores is full of pyrotechnics and represents a vulgarity that most people in humanity cannot avoid. Under the small fresh painting style and warm theme, it has more ironic and spitting meanings.
court
The most dramatic and conflicting part of this film is that the courts of the two cities are located in the same place, the court of Bear City on the ground and the court of Rat City on the ground. Different worlds, the same set of rules and judgments.
During the trial, a fire was set in the Bear City courthouse because the rat city oil lamp was inadvertently overturned. The court represents popular prejudice, order, and rules in both worlds. The court collapsed after Aite and Xena rescued the judges separately. At the same time, the judge, who represents the defender of order, has a new understanding of the meaning of order and rules, and makes extra-rule rulings on these two aliens who seem to be deviant and not accepted by the public.
Ait Bear's House
Anist lived on the ground, but not in Bear City, his grandfather and father were judges, but since he was a child, he loved music, but he chose to be a street musician and circus actor, living in a small broken house far from the city.
The small space is filled with various musical instruments. This house far from the same kind has two meanings in the film, one is to show that the Aite bear is ignored and marginalized, and the other is to represent that it is the abort bear's spiritual shelter away from the hustle and bustle.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > symbol in the film: expressing thinking about rules by concatenating prop settings between two worlds</h1>
tooth
In Bear City, teeth are tools used to chew food, and a bear buys teeth to eat nougat better, which is the basis for rats to create civilization and society.
In addition to the superficial educational significance of children, teeth will be broken, and another metaphor is wealth and profit, the bear couple gets rich by the tooth-related business, and the mouse uses the bear's teeth to create everything, which is an indispensable wealth for both sides.
Red truck
The truck in the film was originally owned by the couple who owned the dessert shop and the tooth shop, and Ait and Xena drove the car during the escape process, and eventually stopped in the woods not far from Aite's house. The snow in the winter covered up, and the spring was particularly dazzling, and the two painted the car into a forest, but a heavy rain washed away the paint, and the truck fell back to the city because it lost the obstacle to the road that came, so that the police in Bear City and Rat City came to the door.
The red truck represents the "bad things" that the two men committed together, but also represents a challenge to rules and injustices.
Mousetrap
In this film, the mousetrap clip is not only used to catch rats in Bear City, but also used to practice escaping in Rat City rats, and the interesting setting is that after the two are caught, both police officers are used to clip things, which is used to deter Ait Bear and Xena Mouse. The mousetrap here represents outdated rules and stereotyped thinking.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the realistic meaning of the film: the best weapon to fight against the vulgarity of this world is the brave and pure heart of the child</h1>
The French are romantic, and even fairy tales are full of romantic colors, in the film, Ait Bear and Xena Rat are regarded as alien and excluded by the public, but they still maintain the pure heart of the child. Their feelings do not have any color, they are pure feelings that they just want to be with each other.
When the court was on fire, Xena rushed to take Judge Bear out, and Judge Bear, who had awakened from his anger, said something like this: "They all abandoned me, except for you." ”
This rare purity not only made the bear and the mouse the best friend, saved others, and broke through the rules and orders, but also silenced those who had lost their promises and long lost their courage.
From ancient times to the present, human beings have always spent their lives looking for the person who "understands" themselves. But often pure friendship will only leave a sad back in the face of the cold system, rules, etc. of reality. Few people dare to challenge the existing order and rules, and more people choose to silently accept reality. But there are always some people who are fearless of these thorns and shackles, who dare to break those dogmas. They are truly brave.
The people who have the courage to try to solve new problems in their lives are the ones who make society great! Those who live only by the rules are not making society progressive, but only making it sustainable. ———— Tagore
The older we get, the more we lose courage and only dare to live according to the rules. Unconsciously, most of us have lost that strong and brave heart?
Making the world better and better is not an easy thing to do, it's easy to give up, and it must be cool to stick with it. May we have the opportunity to live this life, not forget the original intention, live up to the time and live out of ourselves, and finally get wonderful. May you go through a thousand sails and return as a teenager.
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