An eight-minute animated short film without a single line shocked millions of parents

In 2015, a Spanish animated short film \”Alike\” was nominated for 117 awards and won 64 awards. It\’s eight minutes long and doesn\’t have a single line, but I watched it three times. The protagonists of the story are a father and son. The father is an office worker and the son Paste is a primary school student. They look similar but have different colors. One is a vibrant and cheerful orange, and the other is a calm and capable melancholy blue. Every morning, they pack their backpacks and go to work and school just like ordinary father and son. When they walked out of the house, they were greeted by a lifeless, bloodless gray world. The whole city is like a large automated factory, and the pedestrians on the road are in a hurry. They have a unified rhythm, a unified expression, a unified costume, and of course, a unified color: gray. Suddenly, the father and son saw a violinist standing under the red maple tree and playing passionately. The orange maple trees, the emerald green lawns, the leisurely affectionateness, the free demeanor… all of these seem incompatible with this world. Paste was stunned, with a look of admiration and admiration on his face. He closed his eyes and even began to imitate his appearance. Just when he was about to indulge in it, his father pulled him back and threw his schoolbag in front of him, trying to tell him, \”School is the place you should go.\” As soon as pasta arrived at school, he excitedly took out the paper and brush, and he wanted to Draw that scene just now! He happily showed his work to the teacher, only to receive a cold correction. The teacher brought a new piece of white paper and put it in front of him, pointing to the ABCD to be copied, as if telling him, \”This is what he should learn.\” However, pasta still filled the entire sheet with color and creativity. Blank paper. As soon as my father arrived at the company, he started typing on the keyboard, mechanically repeating it without stopping. Finally, he slowly faded away and turned into the same gray as the people around him. Only when the hands point to seven o\’clock and hug his son after get off work, will he regain his color. The father and son were sitting on the bench. The son couldn\’t wait to show his father the painting he drew in the afternoon, but he saw a sad and angry look on his father\’s face. As if telling him, \”There is no need for \”individuality\” here. You have to learn how to integrate into this world neatly, and you have to learn the gray rules of survival in the adult world.\” Days repeat day by day, and life rolls forward like a gear. As long as the pasta stops at the violinist, it will be brought back to reality; as long as the pasta paints the \”world\” it wants to paint, it will be corrected and blamed. He finally gave in… He took the initiative to write crooked but correct letters with a black pen. He took the initiative to stretch out his hands to welcome the extremely heavy schoolbag. He no longer fantasizes about singing like a violinist. And he gradually faded away… What the father looked forward to most every day was to hug his child and return to his true colors, but one day, the child unexpectedly ran to him and hugged him. He looked at his body and the child\’s drawing and suddenly realized something. On a dreary morning while walking, he stopped his son to watch a performance to enjoy the performance of the only violinist in the city who had not surrendered to the system. But that personGone, no one knows where he went. It turns out that even the violinist has given up, and the pasta is even more lonely. Looking at his son\’s disappointed eyes, Copy had an idea, put down his briefcase, stood under the red maple tree, mustered up the courage, put his hands empty in a vivid gesture of pursuing his dream, and played the violin. At that moment, the two hugged each other tightly. Both of them have recovered their long-lost true colors. Please click here for the complete video. Sometimes, we always accidentally let the world wear away the color of our children in the name of making our children shine. You try to teach your children the rules of survival in a gray world, but your children tell you that the world should be colorful. But you don\’t listen. You ruined your child by letting him be like everyone else and ruining your child by being \”right.\” There is a question on Zhihu: What are the unacceptable and common logic or thinking patterns of parents? One netizen anonymously shared his experience, which made people sigh. \”Growing up, my parents felt that my good grades were due to them. When I applied for my application, my first choice was the Department of Architecture at Tongji University. I like mathematics and lines. But my mother\’s colleagues treated her very badly. She said, is there any need to choose? It must be to go to the National People\’s Congress. Tongji and the National People\’s Congress are not the same universities at all. So she forced me to change my first choice to the National People\’s Congress\’s law school. The reason was that my colleagues all laughed at you for being stupid. , it really embarrasses me. Anyone with a right mind would choose the National People\’s Congress. The prosecutor has a high status and is prestigious. Then you will be grateful to me. I studied a major that I didn\’t like for four years in college, and every day I learned from the pain. When I woke up, I had no idea why I was studying. I worked hard but got nothing. During my sophomore year, I suffered from depression and tried my best every day not to collapse.\” Long Yingtai said: \”Adult lock In one\’s own inertial thinking, one has the power to formulate the rules of the game, so it is too easy to be self-righteous.\” Parents control the life trajectory of their children, and this society controls the trajectory of parents\’ choices. Watching other people’s children taking tutoring classes and signing up for various training classes, I have to rush forward even though I’m thinking about it; watching other people’s children enrolling in good schools and majors, I urge my own children to catch up quickly; Seeing other people\’s children to be perfect, following the mold to make the child into a perfect product on the assembly line, without allowing the slightest error. When parents are bound by the world and follow blindly, they can no longer see the inner world of their children and kill their children\’s desire and innocence. I once read a story: a group of children were drawing, and red suns \”rose\” from the drawing paper. The parents who were watching were very happy because their children drew the same big red sun as the teacher\’s painting. . Occasionally there are a few golden suns, which is fine in the eyes of parents. Because the teacher said that the sun can also be golden. Only one little boy drew a black sun. Just as the little boy was about to explain excitedly, his father hurriedly said, \”You drew the sun wrong. This is not how the teacher taught you. Look at how others draw it!\” The little boy became overwhelmed and froze. There, before he could take back the pride at the corner of his mouth, his dad took out a piece of white paper and asked him to draw again. What to draw? Painting \”upright\”The sun is \”exact\”. Little did he know, what he painted was the sun sleeping at night. Some people said: \”Two identical leaves frighten God.\” \”But parents let their children live a life of (copy) and (pasta). What\’s the point of living by repeating other people\’s lives? Does the child live 365 days a year, or does he live Repeated 364 times a day, it depends on the parents. \”Be Brave to Be Yourself\” is my daughter\’s favorite picture book during this period, and it is worthy of reading by all parents. The truth in it is very simple, but many parents still don\’t Understand. The little fish Danny went out to explore the sea all day long. When he swam through the waves toward home, he couldn\’t help but find: some fish swam to the left, some fish swam to the right; some fish swam upward, and some fish swam toward Downstream; some fish are different, some fish are the same; some fish are smooth, some fish are covered with spikes; some fish swim on the surface, some fish stay at the bottom; some fish swim in groups, some fish swim alone; some fish swim alone; Fish like bright sunshine, and some fish prefer bright moonlight… You will find that in the blue sea, there are tens of thousands of fish, and each fish is unique. Together, these fish make up our colorful and beautiful world. The world. Just like the title \”Alike\” mentioned at the beginning, you and I are just similar, but ultimately different. Every child is a unique individual, and together they make up this colorful world. Let children find themselves There is no need to always follow the path of others, be brave and be yourself. Because people live not to be the first, but to be the only one. Some children may not be socially adept and have no words, but they have light in their hearts and do not try to flatter others; She may have average grades and be a bit partial to subjects, but she can write well and make a living from her pen. She may have an average appearance and is not the type that the public likes, but she is kind-hearted, warm and kind… Every child has his or her own shining point, and they are all unique If we polish her uniqueness, start forcing introverts to socialize, force people with literary talents to be versatile, and let ordinary-looking people spend huge sums of money on plastic surgery, then it will only lead to more problems and tragedies , turning children into copies of others and reducing them to ordinary beings. Finally, I would like to end this article with a comment from the short film \”alike\”. \”If the world will eventually become similar, I hope we can protect the colors of children. Tell your children that in a gray world, on the road to ordinary life, only by maintaining your own color can you live out your own sparkle. \”