In a person's life, the most glorious day is not the day of success and fame, but the challenge of life from lamentation and despair, and the day of courage to move towards the will. - Flaubert
"The Story of McDougal" is the first film in the "McDougal" series, and after its release in Hong Kong in 2001, it not only had a double box office reputation, but also won eight domestic and foreign awards. In the 19th Chinese Film and Media Awards, it was rated as one of the top ten films in the new century together with excellent films such as "Fancy Years", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Yiyi" and "Infernal Affairs".
It's a good movie, but it's best not for kids to watch it. Because this is not a simple cartoon, it does not reflect a colorful fantasy paradise, but reflects a real, hard world. Adults who have seen this movie all start with being laughed at and end up laughing. Children do not understand that there is no understanding of the good, in case they understand, it is not good for a long life.
Next, I will talk about what I have learned from this movie when I am growing up.
McDougall is a piglet living in Tai Kok Tsui, Hong Kong, with unremarkable looks, brains and family background. The Springfield Flower Kindergarten he attended was a "low-end" kindergarten hidden in the corner, and the principal was worried about the funds all day long, and the daily greeting of the morning meeting was: "Children, have you paid your tuition this month?" ”
But for Mai Du and his young classmates, Springfield Flower Kindergarten is their most beautiful and happy paradise. Although their teacher Chen is a bit of a ma daha, he is a good teacher who is responsible. Teacher Chen's wish is to be the second Faye Wong, and her singing voice is really quite good. There is a song that Mai Du wants to learn to sing, and asks Teacher Chen, but he can't say the name of the song. Teacher Chen immediately said: "Isn't it all things bright and beautiful?" ”
Teacher Chen sang
Yes, at that time, McDougall was carefree, thinking that everything was so beautiful, happiness was so simple, just like we were in childhood, and we didn't know the taste of sorrow. Childhood is a peach blossom source out of the hustle and bustle, children live in it, do not know that this is a pure land preserved under the careful protection of their parents. It was my parents who built the peach blossom garden for us, and also shielded the peach blossom garden from the wind and rain, and tried their best to support us with a blue clear sky. We don't know any of this, and we think the world is like this.
When we were young, everyone thought about growing up quickly, but when we grew up, we found that the world was not what we dreamed of. The world may not be simple, it may not be funny, it may not allow us to dream. It's a hard-hitting world, operating under established rules and not favoring any one person. We live in this real world, we want to earn money, we want to provide for the building, we have to support our families, so we have to leave the dreams we have had behind and helplessly mature.
There is a paradise in the heart of The Madhu, and that is the Maldives. The Maldives of "blue sky and white clouds, coconut groves and tree shadows, water and sand" is the obsession in Mai Du's heart, and it is his dream when he was a child. It's just that he doesn't know that in fact, he is already in the peach blossom garden that his mother built for him, and when he grows up, he can never go back to this peach blossom garden.
Mrs. Mai held Mai Du
McDougall's mother, Mrs. McDonald, is a single mother who supports McDoubt on her own. In McDougall's eyes, Mom is like a super Mary, overcoming difficulties and indestructible. Her love for McDougall was direct, and her expectations of him were also direct.
Jackie Chan is the psychology of every mother in the world, and they will do everything to achieve this wish. Mrs. Mai is doing her best for the future of her children, and it will work, and it will work if it doesn't work. She drew lots for her son, and must be drawn to count, and the fortune teller said that her son could not do it, and she punched it.
Seeing that Mai Du and handsome and smart are not related, and good luck has never come, Mrs. Mai decided to let her son follow the new Olympic champion Li Lishan's back road and become an athlete. If you win an Olympic gold medal, it will be glorious.
Grab the Bag Mountain
In order to fulfill her mother's wish, Mai Du took a boat to Cheung Chau to learn to grab Bao Shan every Saturday. In fact, he didn't believe that grabbing Baoshan could become an Olympic project, but he still worked hard to learn to grab Baoshan, he said: "Because I love my mother." "Knowing that it is impossible, he perseveres in his efforts, because it is what the person he loves wants to see." He would do as his beloved mother expected, even if it was in vain, and he would let it happen.
What did Mom say about that? In a letter to the president of the Olympic Committee, she said: "Although you don't know what small things I am, my children are very big and big, and one day you will know. ”
There is a saying that hope is beautiful, perhaps the best in the world. And I think a mother's love for her child may be the greatest in the world. Maternal love is the only unconditional love in this world that we can get without paying any price. Moms love us simply because we are their children, whether we are beautiful or ugly, smart or stupid, healthy or sickly.
The book "The Selfish Gene" tells us a truth: the vows made by the newlyweds when they get married are contrary to human nature and contrary to human instincts, and it is impossible for a person to be inseparable from another person regardless of health, illness, poverty, and prosperity. Perhaps this is true, human nature is selfish. But maternal love is beyond nature, and a mother can give everything for her children without selfishness.
McDougall's mom is like Super Mary passing the hurdle
I was a frail child from a young age, and whenever I was sick, my mother would always say, "If only I could get sick for you." "I was still very timid, and every time I was unwell, I would scare myself and feel as if I was very ill. At this time, as long as the mother said: "It doesn't matter, it's no big deal, don't be afraid." "I'm really not afraid. My mother's words are golden rules, as long as she says don't be afraid, I can be fearless. Because I know she's always looking at me behind me, she won't let me fall, and her love keeps me from ever falling.
Mother is the source of our lives and the destination of our spirits. When we are wandering in the outside world, frustrated, injured, back home we can always get the healing of mother's love, and then pluck up the courage to start again. We work hard, we want to succeed, we want to build a career, no matter what it is, the main reason is "because I love my mom" and we don't want to disappoint them.
When we were young, we all made big and empty promises to our mothers and wrote empty checks. "When I grow up, I'm going to buy you a plane." We are full of bold words and full of ambition, thinking that all the good things in the world have been grasped. Growing up, we pretended to forget the promise we had made, came home and said to my mother, "When I'm making money, buy you a necklace!" ”
Growing up means being mature, realistic, and responsible, and the word mother means that no matter how old you are, you can be a child again.
The final chapter of The McDougall Story is no longer animated, but is played by a live-action. The 3D animation scenes collaged by the photos have also been restored to real scenes, and our protagonists have suddenly returned to the real world from the fantasy paradise under the filter of childhood. The symbolism of the film is very clear here, this is not a simple cartoon about the piggy McDougal, McDougal's story only symbolizes the growth experience of an ordinary grassroots class.
When McDougall grew up, he found that the world was different from when he was a child, and he ran into walls everywhere in this world, and he couldn't even dream. He found that some things that did not have were not, and if they did not work, they could not do; it turned out that fat and stupid were not so funny, stupid would fail, they would be disappointed; fat was not necessarily strong, and strength was not necessarily good. The truth of life was gradually revealed before his eyes, and the reality seemed so cruel.
A comedian who always presents himself with a comical image once said: "The world is a huge circus, and it excites you, but it makes me panic." Because I know that after the end of the scene, it will always be - limited temperature, infinite heartache. "The world is exciting to us at first, but eventually it reveals a frightening side that is not flawed, but real.
McDougall's stupidity and fatness are funny, but now even laughing at him makes me feel cruel, because the burden of stupidity and fatness is only his own back, we are just people who stand by and watch, and we can't empathize with his experience. He can laugh at his shortcomings, but I can't bear to laugh at him with them. Maybe we are not as stupid as him, not as fat as him, but his life story still represents the experience of most people, and he is the spokesperson for our vast majority of ordinary people. Not to mention that under the joker's smiley face mask, it is often a crying face.
The last part of the film is full of helplessness and a faint bitterness, which is the taste of reality. Hopes were disappointed, And mai du did not become Zhou Runfa, did not win the Olympic gold medal, and did not even become a brilliant adult.
We are a generation forgotten by history, with no purpose and no status. There is no great war, no great economic panic. Our great war is only a battle of hearts, and our panic is just our lives. We grew up watching TV and believing that one day we would become rich, star or rock star, but we wouldn't. That's the reality we're gradually facing, so we're very angry. - "Fight Club"
Big friend McDougall was standing by the sea
Most of us don't become outstanding people, we are ordinary, which is different from our expectations, but life still has to go on. Life is a heavy effort, trying to make yourself in the self, trying not to lose your way, trying to be firm in your place. In this sense, who can argue that McDougall is actually a successful pig? If you haven't lost yourself either, who's to say you're not a successful person?
While most of us don't have great minds, everyone can have great minds. Yes, McDougall is really great, because after going through so much, he finally found himself, found himself. At the end of the film, he stands on the beach by the sea in a striped jumpsuit, and the narrator says: "After telling stories for half a day, there is nothing, that is, the calves have become bigger." But when such a pair of calves stood here and the waves came over, it felt really good. ”
Yes, let us begin with smallness and end with greatness. Living in this precious human world, the sun is strong and the water waves are gentle.