Whimsy and whimsy have long been the most appropriate words to describe children. A child’s world is full of fantasy and the unexpected, but as they grow older, the fantasy is gradually merged with reality.
This is why the adult world has largely eliminated what we perceive to be unrealistic illusions, and has instead formed a prescribed pattern, a pattern, or a system of thought that, to some extent, also stifles our imagination. As a result, the imagination of adults is limited.
Because it is limited, we cannot think of many wonderful scenarios, and because it is limited, many highly imaginative works are admired. However, as adults, we are racking our brains trying to find imagination in our already unimaginative heads. Should we not think differently, perhaps we are wrong to begin with. The way to find imagination is never difficult, and it’s actually easier to change the object.
Therefore, in the field of imagination and dreaming, children seem to be more appropriate. So, today I would like to present to you a film full of imagination, “The Night of the Children’s Dream”. It’s a fantasy movie that tells the story of a man who steals people’s dreams.
An evil doctor builds a laboratory on the sea, which is filled with all kinds of strange people and a sentient machine that the doctor himself creates and invents. The servants in this laboratory add to the information base of the machine that the Doctor invented by stealing children from the city.
For example, adults identify with a certain kind of Doctor who, in the eyes of children, is evil because the Doctor invented all the strange things.
And the twins that we see so often are also evil to children, in the sense that these so-called twins exhibit a physiological phenomenon that children cannot understand. Conjoined twins are naturally even more evil. This is the main range of what a child can think of as evil.
In contrast, the definition of goodness must be a force beyond the child’s reach, which eventually transforms into a force on the child’s side. This also explains why the protagonists of this film are a tall, strong Ichi and a beautiful, weak Medhi.
Both of them rely on each other and work together to finally defeat the bad doctor. Ichi is a symbol of strength for Milady, and Milady is a symbol of wisdom for Ichi.
Heroes in the world of children may not be as all-powerful as adults think. For if there were an all-powerful hero, his or her power would be nowhere to be seen. It is precisely because heroes have flaws that there is room for children to develop their own power. This logic is also different from that of adults.
The various weapons of murder in this film are also full of whimsy, such as the poisonous fleas that prompt people to become tools. This is very imaginative, and the Doctor’s ultimate goal of stealing people’s dreams, for example, is also different from the material wealth of the adult world. Because children have their own needs, what they consider precious is completely different from what is precious in the adult world.
Therefore, the director of this film was able to construct a scene that is, in essence, very rare and valuable. It is also a message to the rest of us children’s filmmakers that what is really holding us back is arrogance and inequality, and that imagination is always a lame excuse for not wanting to dream.
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