also remembered it for a while. I haven't finished watching a movie at home. Most of the time, I opened it and watched it for a few minutes, and then closed the movie before the beginning. In fact, the movie "How to Train Your Dragon 3" was no exception at the beginning. I ordered a takeaway at a certain noon and opened it. After reading the beginning, I didn't have much interest in watching it anymore. After the age of reading fairy tales, it is difficult to be attracted by children's stories that look at the beginning and guess the end. The story is basically an old-fashioned villain with an inexplicable childhood obsession. He just felt the pleasure of slaying dragons to obtain glory when he was a child, and then he grew up and became a dragon butcher, who had to kill all the night evil spirits. Finally defeated by the protagonist.
However, since it can reach the end, there must be factors that encourage the audience to watch. The interesting world view established in the first part and the lovely dragon design are all so attractive from character to appearance. But after accepting these settings, reading the story feels clichéd, so the second part did not bring me too many surprises. However, Hiccup was too tired for a few days to shave his beard, the yellow fluff on his chin and other details, as well as the magnificent scenes, all show the excellent production of this movie. Of course, the exquisiteness of old American cartoons is just a sign of the maturity of their animation film industry, and there is no need to elaborate on them. However, recent American movies seem to revolve around one theme: growing up.
is no longer a heroic growth, similar to the kind of hero who changes the world from an ordinary person, but the growth of a child, from dependence to independence, even the recent hot little spiders. When the first episode of How to Train Your Dragon was broadcast, the male lead was a teenager, and so was I. When the third step was broadcast, he became a patriarch, an adult who needed to be alone, and I stood close. Toothlessness is like a symbol for Hiccup, a person who transcends the existence of a friend, and toothlessness is a "part" of him, and he advances and retreats and fights together. He thought Toothless would stay with him for a lifetime, just like before the screen, we thought Toothless would stay with him forever.
To put it another way, as an only child, I was also a fantasized friend since I was a child, that is, a "part" of my spiritual world. I don't need to consider his emotions, he always surrounds me. When my happiness, sadness and even anger were not shared by anyone, he was fantasised by me to accompany me, referring to him like that fantasy friend in the mind agent team. But as I grew up, it gradually appeared less and less, I don't need him to give me courage, I don't need him to share my happiness with me. Not only because as I grow up, I have real friends and can get along better with my family, but more importantly, I can bear the reality on my own, digest grief, enjoy ecstasy, calm anger, and accept challenges.
Toothless is Xiao Hiccup’s most loyal friend, but the biggest difference between him and the friends we imagined is that he is also an entity. After all, he also flew into his own life and took up his own responsibilities, so did Xiao Hiccup. Understand that losing him will not become weak, and he also has the ability to be alone. At that moment he was an adult, a real patriarch, and standing beside him was a lover who could wield a battle axe with him. It doesn't even matter whether they meet at the end, so this meeting is more like a ceremonial end, a fairy tale to the end where the princess and the prince live happily together, but we don't actually need it anymore. Hiccup has grown up, and we have grown up too.
