A good book can awaken human nature, and a good movie can also make people memorable, including animation.
The human brain is controlled by various emotions, such as friendship, love, affection, naughty, logic and fantasy, which are isolated islands connecting the brain headquarters. Each memory ball has also become a film and is transported to the control room through pipes when people need it. And core memory is undoubtedly the key to start all this. What a wonderful imagination!
Memories accompany us all our lives. Of course, our brains can't remember everything, so the memory ball will be cleared regularly. But the most important memory will last for a long time and become a nutrient to nourish life. If we lose these things, I don't know what else can wake up those who have gone the wrong way. It is these core memory balls about love, friendship, perseverance and spirit that enable us to live hopefully, get lost, have the ability to judge right and wrong, and become a symbol of higher animals.
Maybe, we will grow old. When we forget many things, the core memory still exists. Who will forget unforgettable things?
Tell us how to do better with the animation that everyone likes, which proves that the simpler things often contain true knowledge.
On the evening of June 13, I took my daughter and son to the cinema and watched the movie upside down.
As a big fan of Pixar, I watched almost every cartoon produced by the animation studio at least twice with my children. Inside Out is almost the simplest Pixar cartoon. However, it made me cry several times.
The protagonist of this film is a girl named Riley, who is 1 1 years old and has been living a carefree and happy childhood life. However, as her parents moved from Minnesota to San Francisco, facing the discomfort of the new school, the alienation of old girlfriends and the indifference caused by her parents' busy work, her mood became very negative, but she kept suppressing this negative mood and deliberately showed positive optimism. Finally, one night, she broke out in anger. On the way, I suddenly woke up and went home.
The experience of the hero's external world in the film is simple, but the exploration of the hero's internal world is extremely complicated, delicate and subtle. There are five emotional experts in Riley's brain: joy (joy), sadness (worry), anger (anger), disgust (disgust) and fear (fear), which dominate Riley's reaction to the outside world. The conflict, reconciliation and cooperation between them are both scientific and logical, literary and dramatic. It's a rare boutique.
I noticed that the reason why this film can convince people by reasoning and influence people is closely related to the growing experience of director Peter Doggett and the growing experience of director's daughter Ellie. When Doggett was in the fifth grade, his parents moved to Denmark for a year so that his father could learn carl nielsen's hymn music. Doggett's two sisters had an easy time then, but he fell behind. This feeling lasted until the last stage of his high school.
"That was the most difficult time in my life." He said, "Suddenly, with a bang, the idyllic soap bubbles in your childhood burst. You begin to realize that everything you do, every dress you wear, every hat you wear, and everything you say will be judged by others ... I always feel that I am clumsy and shy, so I have retreated to my own small world to some extent. "
Later, Doggett became a parent. At the end of 2009, he noticed that his 1 1 year-old daughter Ellie was undergoing a similar transformation. "She began to become quieter and more introverted. To be honest, this situation has caused a lot of anxiety and fear in my own heart ... As we all know, it is not easy to grow up. Seeing my daughter's growth has opened the door to my memory, reminding me that the process of growing up is so hard, so I hope this movie can make everyone have a * * * sound and recall the experience of growing up ... "
I was particularly moved by Doggett's sharing. It's no wonder that in many scenes of this movie, I saw immature homesickness in the form of flying house travels, firm friendship in the form of toy story, and value reflection in the form of monster power company. If Monster Power Company points out that the real power energy comes not from fear, but from joy, then Inside Out is even better, and the point is true.
However, if we just think that the theme of this film is "encouraging children to open their true selves, to express their sadness, and to accept the loss frankly …", I think it is one-sided and thin. Is that all?
The question I am thinking about is: What kind of deeper interpersonal communication can help children freely open their true selves and bravely express their sadness?
Everyone has a "neglected and covered inner child"
Take the little hero Riley as an example. Why did she run away from home? In fact, it is the superposition of lonely experiences in all aspects. We can see that when Riley introduced himself in the new class of the new school, he changed from forcing a smile (symbolizing "I'm in a good mood") to crying (symbolizing "I'm in a bad mood"). It's not that he didn't open his true self or express his sad mood.
But unfortunately, no classmates (including teachers) went up to hug and comfort her at that time; At the group lunch, no one took a reason to accompany her; When the ice hockey game was frustrated, no one encouraged her to support her, and her former best friend had a new partner, so no one cared about her. Her parents also ignored her because of their busy work. Finally, she had to run away from home and missed the love of her parents, classmates and teachers.
So, why did she go home halfway? Because of countless warm and beautiful childhood memories (emotional accounts), she has always believed that mom and dad love her. So, at home, she can bravely and freely open her heart: "I know you want to make me happy, but I really miss Minnesota …" At this time, her parents' reaction is completely different from that of the new students. They held her tightly in their arms and said sadly, "In fact, we miss the beautiful forest, our backyard and the spring lake where you skate, just like you ..."
In the love of hugging and crying, all Riley's nostalgia and sadness are transformed into deeper growth joy.
But we might as well imagine that if Riley came home and truly expressed his sadness, in exchange for his parents' anger, irony, indifference or moral criticism, would Riley still open his heart?
Riley's experience of running away from home has been repeated in my own childhood and adolescence. Our parents of the previous generation were sad, and they had accumulated a lot of negative emotions-for example, my father suffered family changes in his childhood, suffered great disasters in his youth, was excluded by others in the future, his faith was completely bankrupt, and there was a fierce conflict in his marriage. He didn't know how to manage the relationship between husband and wife, and he didn't know how to manage the parent-child relationship, so many grievances and anger that had nowhere to vent turned to children who were weaker than himself.
When I was about Riley's age, one day at noon, my father put me down because of a very small thing. In this case, I always submit to humiliation and forget it. But that time, in the face of those insults and ridicule, I couldn't help it anymore and ran out crying.
300 meters away from my home is the Yangtze River. I cried and wandered around the Yangtze River pier. Finally, I calmed down and crept back. My father just looked at me coldly: "Don't dare to run! Don't come back if you have the ability! " My heart is shaking, so I have to listen to his ridicule and continue to be passive towards Nuo Nuo Nuo Nuo, but I secretly swear: "This is really bring disgrace to oneself, and I will never cry again, and I will never be weak again. Tears are worthless!"
Later, in the summer of 16 and 17, I had two cruel experiences of running away from home, one by car in the middle of the night and the other by drowning myself in the river in the middle of the night, but both failed, and the consequences were even more tragic and I was more closed.
So it is not difficult to answer, why do children (even adults) hide their true selves and escape from sadness? Because compared with joy, sadness is the weakest and softest emotion in the heart, and it is also the most vulnerable emotion. Once exposed, if it is not accepted and understood, it will encounter indifference or ridicule, and it is no longer easy to continue to expose yourself. On the contrary, it will arm itself with a lot of armor and become firm, tough, cold, cold, over-independent and indifferent. ...
Therefore, the degree to which children open their true selves is directly proportional to the degree to which parents (including teachers, classmates, relatives and friends) unconditionally accept them. Judging from the age difference, teenagers are less likely to open than children; From the perspective of gender differences, boys are less open than girls, and men are less open than women. In this era of seemingly living with various masks, labels and identities, in fact, everyone has a "covered and neglected inner child" in his heart.
Julie has a very popular song called Dear Child. The lyrics have touched countless people's growing experiences: "Did the child cry today/did all his friends leave/left a kind of loneliness that he couldn't take away/did the beautiful child cry today/did he dirty his beautiful clothes/but he couldn't find anyone to talk to/did the clever child cry today/did he lose his beloved gift/did he leave early?"
In fact, Yang Lide, the lyricist of this song, is a _. He said that he wrote this song to remind everyone how to go home step by step when they grow up. Where do we come from? Where are you going?