Special feature of 1905 film network Adapted from overseas best-selling books, the movie with the dreamy animation team escorted was released nationwide on September 20th. The film tells the story of Rose, a robot living in the wilderness, who unexpectedly becomes the "temporary guardian" of Dayan Xiaobudian. When the established program meets the disorderly wilderness, the motif of love and growth emerges.
This issue invites film critic Zhou Guiyi to talk about this animated film full of "chicken soup for the soul". Is it worth drinking?
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The film is ahead of the overseas release, and has won good reputation and evaluation among the audience. Many viewers said that this is the most worthwhile animated film in their hearts in 2024, and the film critic Zhou Guiyi felt the same way and gave the film an evaluation of 8 points.
"Wild Robot" can be said to be the most family-friendly film this year. First of all, it is visually well done. The story background of the film is in a "wasteland era", but there is no darkness and decadence in the whole film. On the contrary, it presents a large number of natural landscapes in a fresh and hand-painted state, which is very close to the temperature sense that the film wants to express.
Secondly, the theme of the story is also deep. In the film, the robot Rhodes plays a powerful mother with logic, speed and strength, but it will still be confused when facing the problem of parenting. If a person becomes a mother, even the robot will suffer internal friction.
In addition, the film also pays attention to the topic of the growth of young people at present, and discusses how to judge the sense of individual belonging. In the film, Rose is a robot wandering in the wilderness, separated from the robot group, and the weak wild goose is also an alien, raised by a robot from birth, and it has no way to blend in with the geese; After watching the film, you may have a new understanding of the word "belonging". Whether belonging is collective, family or blood depends on what kind of identity and role you are substituting.
Brand-new robot image, the next animation?
As we all know, many animated films produced by DreamWorks have impressive images, such as Shrek, Puss in Boots, Po Panda, Toothless Boy, Crazy Primitive Man and so on, all of which are from DreamWorks. This time, Robot in the Wild created the first animated robot image. What are its differences?
Not as cute as Eva and Kawara Tsutomu, and not as soft as Libai, but after watching the movie, we will find that the advantage of robot Rose is its appearance. The director’s settings let the audience see that this is an era of mass production robots, which keeps its rough and simple appearance and has a good contrast with its perfect personality.
In the past, the robot seemed to be naturally set as a male character, but the voice and emotional mode of Rose and the encounter with the wild goose in the film all pointed out that it was a woman, which combined the height of maternal love and humanity with the coldness of the robot. In the past robot movies, we were all thinking about the direction of human and machine AI, which was a confrontational relationship, but when the robot became a woman, it seemed to find a way to coexist.
In the movie, Rose puts all the animals in a warm cave, which is a biological chain that kills each other in the laws of nature. But now all species have to spend this cold winter first, and Rose has established an ideal state of harmony in the world and replaced it with the brilliance of motherhood.
However, some viewers also gave different views on the role of Rose, thinking that "the role is added with passive mother’s love and responsibility, acquiesced in her female identity and deliberately sensationalized"; Others say, "Sure enough, a mother’s duty is a never-ending task". Will the mother’s setting make this story appear rigid or thin?
In this regard, Zhou Guiyi said, "I personally don’t want to wrap the movie characters in such an overly feminist environment, and then interpret them in an overly binary way." I believe that the richness of the movie, Rose was a responsible person and a server from the day she was born, but she just happened to meet a weak life, which inspired an emotion similar to maternal love.
Many settings on Rose are not aimed at geese. The audience should not be too sensitive to think that the tenderness on Rose is a strong setting that must be disciplined as a mother for female identity, but should see that there is a great love beyond maternal love from a female perspective.
New thinking on human destiny in AI era
It seems to be a perfect story and a perfect character, but many viewers think that the film is old-fashioned, too preaching, and the setting of a happy ending that breaks the food chain is too idealistic. A bowl of chicken soup for the soul that is too rich may not achieve the desired effect.
However, Zhou Guiyi disagreed with this view. "I don’t think it is a particularly rich chicken soup, but I think this classic traditional expression has time continuity." Wild Robot is about the new survival law in the AI ? ? era. Robots have a lot of big data, and they can purify themselves with logic and constant algorithms. Animals live by instinct and experience, so when they meet, they will definitely collide with some different sparks.
The movie "Wild Robot" uses a simple way to tell the audience that "kindness is the ultimate way to survive". When AI and robots come in the future and the values before human order are subverted, what else is worth believing? Maybe we can find some answers in this film.
