The animated short film "Water Head" is a film about mental stress.
It mainly tells the story of children with "water heads" who have to choose to do their homework constantly under the pressure of a huge circular monster.
As their mental stress increases, so does the water in their brains, and these circular monsters survive by sucking on gases that evaporate from their children's brains.
In a hierarchical vertical learning factory, the progression of the learning level is followed by the continuous learning of letting the circular monster swallow the gas produced from the brain. The circular monster is like a watchdog or an abstract pressure, constantly urging and whipping lazy children. Although such a day is tedious, it still cannot erase the child's playful nature and the imagination that erupts.
One day, a child with a whimsical imagination sat on a paper airplane and traveled the world, and the boiling water head produced the "imagination gas" that monsters rarely eat, and then the monster fell asleep.
Without the monsters supervising learning, the children began to fold the paper airplane, the paper airplane seemed to be endowed with magic, and the monsters that ate the paper airplane were deformed and smaller. The children who successfully released the stress opened up the time to play.
After a short play, the monsters returned to their original form, and the children's learning life returned to normal.
1. Theme selection
Nowadays, people's lives are suddenly stressful, and children are no exception.
Children's mental stress is no less than that of adults, and children's mental stress mainly comes from learning tasks.
If the school's learning task is a small hill, then all kinds of extracurricular tutoring classes are nothing less than a mountain of mental pressure, which overwhelms the children, not only letting the children lose the play time they should have, but also letting the children lose their imagination, and will only become a machine for doing homework. This is the source of the theme of this animated short film.
2. Plot implications
Episode 1: The Monster Whipping
The circular monster located behind the children's seats will whip the children whenever they find them slack or lazy.
By transforming the invisible pressure of children into vivid tangible and terrible monsters, the plot of beating children is a warning to society, parents, not to become that terrible monster, and not to give children too much mental pressure.
Episode Two: The Monster Falls Asleep
A child who deserts imagines himself traveling the world on a paper airplane, and the boiling water brain produces a rare imaginative gas. The monster that ate this gas actually magically relaxed and fell asleep, and the child was given a rare amount of play time.
Through this sleep-asleep plot, we are shown that children's imagination is a key to releasing stress, so that children can experience the play time they deserve at that age.
Episode Three: Monster Comparison
Because of the existence of the hierarchy, the monsters also have the heart to compare, as long as they find that they are lagging behind in the level, they will constantly beat the children, so that their heads boil to produce more gas, so that the monsters have gas to eat and rise to a higher level.
The higher the level, the greater the mental stress of the children. The psychology of monster comparison refers to the comparison psychology in the school, parents and other environments, which is undesirable and easy to destroy children.
Episode Four: The Crashed Paper Airplane
After a short period of relaxation and play, the rain came, and the paper airplane could not fly anymore and fell to the ground. The fun time ends and the children are back in that "high-pressure learning mode."
Joy is always short-lived, but reality is cruel. Born as a human being, no one can be separated from the social environment, and this cage has always existed whether you accept it or not.
Episode Five: The Paper Plane That Takes Off Again
In the passageway, the children slowly carried huge monsters on their backs. The paper airplane in the hands of the child becomes a symbol of the hope of letting go, and it is finally released by the child in the process of the monster's desire to grab it.
The paper airplane that has re-taken off expects the children who are the flowers of the motherland to have the courage to pursue their dreams even if they face great pressure, rather than letting the heavy learning tasks swallow up small dreams.
1. Round monster
The round monster is a combination of multiple elements such as parents, teachers, school bags, and social environments, it is like an invisible hand urging children to learn all the time, and it makes children lose the happy time of play that should belong to this age.
2. Vertical grade factory
It is like a hierarchical, well-divided learning level factory, with different levels of steps.
It is more like a real school and class, the good learning will be arranged to the front seat, and the poor learning will always be in the corner.
3. Paper airplane
Paper airplane symbolizes dream and imagination, origami airplane is the process of shaping dreams and imagination, and flying paper airplane is releasing children's dreams and imagination.
1. Huge and weak
Small children, with large monsters on their backs, form a strong contrast between one big and one small, which can highlight the great mental pressure that children have to face, and warn parents and society to pay attention to children's mental health.
2. Resistance and acceptance
From the helpless acceptance at the beginning, to the irrepressible resistance of the childlike and naughty characteristics, to the calm acceptance after recognizing reality, the change of mentality is the only way for everyone to be under this kind of environment.
Tell us that no matter what the enemy is, we must not give up hope, do not give up dreams.
3. Dreams and reality
Recognizing the realistic dream will be clearer and firmer.
Art comes from life, but it is higher than life.
Nowadays, children in the city, in addition to the increasingly heavy school learning tasks, also need to face parents to not let their children lose at the starting line of a variety of extracurricular tutoring classes, interest classes, heavy pressure is like a huge monster, so that children lose laughter, lost the opportunity to open up imagination, shape the dream, these pressures step by step cannibalize the children's imagination to destroy the dream, so far the situation is still no improvement, but more and more severe.
So who will save children's imaginations and dreams?
Mental stress, a person from birth to accompany until the ground.
Excessive mental stress can easily destroy a person's life or even end a person's life.
In response to various stressors, humans are forced to evolve instincts that make it easier to regulate themselves, and this is no exception for children.
However, even with this ability, children are prone to collapse in the face of the pressure that should not be at this age, and the incident of "so-and-so suicide" that is often heard is lamentable.
In order to protect children's imagination and dreams, we should teach according to their aptitudes, fully solicit children's preferences and opinions, rather than blindly cramming education, full of holiday extracurricular tutoring classes will make children lose interest in learning, and it is not conducive to the expansion of children's imagination and the germination of dream seeds.
The significance of the appearance of the animated short film "Water Head" is to call on people to pay attention to the children's "school bags" and help children reduce their burdens, so that it is conducive to the development of children's physical and mental health.
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