I decided to write a blog about the Liza's topic #3 about catoons. I consider cartoons as very important way of socialization of all children, so may be it is possible to control the content of modern cartoons.
The answer on Liza's question about the best cartoon is 'The Lion King'. It is very beautiful story which touches many important themes of our life. The core of the story is in life of the main character, Simba. He comes through a difficult way of education by his father, the death of his father and following expulsion from the Kingdom and returning the justice in his freedom in the final of the cartoon. The main character presents such themes as responsibility for our deeds, the obedience to the parents and inviolable union of the family (more presented in the second part of the cartoon). Mufasa, the father of Simba, is a symbol of wisdom of a governor and lovinf father. There is also a theme of envy and betrayal which presented in the image of Scar who eventually dies from betrayals of hyenas. The hyenas in turn represents a theme of poor groups who are ready to do anything and listen to anyone to receive food. There is also rather famous image of two friends of Simba, Timon and Pumba, who live with a motto 'Hakuna Matata' which means avoiding any difficulties in life and just enjoying life. To sum up, 'The Lion King' is an extremely beatiful, instructive story which should be seen by everyone.
Another one story which I liked in my childhood, but started to really appreciate is a Russian cartoon made on the novel of Nicolay Nosov "Dunno on the Moon". I ashamed to say that I didn't read the book which was written the 1960s, but I watched a cartoon. Now I understand that the Moon society described in the book was a great carucature of capitalists countries, and the Soviet Union was this peaceful society on the Earth. But now I start to think that this Moon society is very similar to our modernity. I don't want to talk about the governments and press controlled by big companies, but about the image of "Island of fools". I was shocked by the hidden meaning of the song about this island. The main idea that the time spent in the island changes people into goats. That can be said about our modern TV, music, humor and culture as whole. There is an overwhelming process of globalization, massification. People love similar persons, listen to similar music, laugh from similar jokes. They are animals which are very simple to manipulate. They are those goats from the "Island of fools".
Now something about modern cartoons. The first point is new technologies of painting. I understand that it is very effective to use computers in creating of cartoons, but ... have you seen these "new" cartoons? The only possible name for characters of some of these cartoons is a monster! They are ugly, something like parodies on humans. The second point is content. It is absolutely stupid plots with "black" humor. The scenes with a person who slipped down on a banana peel are very common, but I think long time ago they were also considered as violent. The worst thing will be the situation when violence in the cartoons would become normal. That would mean people turned completely in goats and pigs.
Cartoons is the way our children explore the world. Of course, cartoosns are kind of art too, and can be used to express feelings of the authors, but these expressions shouldn't spoil children's mind. The censorship on children cartoons is something incredible (but our government is trying to adopt such policy). So, this is parents' duty to contain their children from watching such cartoons.
Our children is our future.
Thank you for attention.
The answer on Liza's question about the best cartoon is 'The Lion King'. It is very beautiful story which touches many important themes of our life. The core of the story is in life of the main character, Simba. He comes through a difficult way of education by his father, the death of his father and following expulsion from the Kingdom and returning the justice in his freedom in the final of the cartoon. The main character presents such themes as responsibility for our deeds, the obedience to the parents and inviolable union of the family (more presented in the second part of the cartoon). Mufasa, the father of Simba, is a symbol of wisdom of a governor and lovinf father. There is also a theme of envy and betrayal which presented in the image of Scar who eventually dies from betrayals of hyenas. The hyenas in turn represents a theme of poor groups who are ready to do anything and listen to anyone to receive food. There is also rather famous image of two friends of Simba, Timon and Pumba, who live with a motto 'Hakuna Matata' which means avoiding any difficulties in life and just enjoying life. To sum up, 'The Lion King' is an extremely beatiful, instructive story which should be seen by everyone.
Another one story which I liked in my childhood, but started to really appreciate is a Russian cartoon made on the novel of Nicolay Nosov "Dunno on the Moon". I ashamed to say that I didn't read the book which was written the 1960s, but I watched a cartoon. Now I understand that the Moon society described in the book was a great carucature of capitalists countries, and the Soviet Union was this peaceful society on the Earth. But now I start to think that this Moon society is very similar to our modernity. I don't want to talk about the governments and press controlled by big companies, but about the image of "Island of fools". I was shocked by the hidden meaning of the song about this island. The main idea that the time spent in the island changes people into goats. That can be said about our modern TV, music, humor and culture as whole. There is an overwhelming process of globalization, massification. People love similar persons, listen to similar music, laugh from similar jokes. They are animals which are very simple to manipulate. They are those goats from the "Island of fools".
Now something about modern cartoons. The first point is new technologies of painting. I understand that it is very effective to use computers in creating of cartoons, but ... have you seen these "new" cartoons? The only possible name for characters of some of these cartoons is a monster! They are ugly, something like parodies on humans. The second point is content. It is absolutely stupid plots with "black" humor. The scenes with a person who slipped down on a banana peel are very common, but I think long time ago they were also considered as violent. The worst thing will be the situation when violence in the cartoons would become normal. That would mean people turned completely in goats and pigs.
Cartoons is the way our children explore the world. Of course, cartoosns are kind of art too, and can be used to express feelings of the authors, but these expressions shouldn't spoil children's mind. The censorship on children cartoons is something incredible (but our government is trying to adopt such policy). So, this is parents' duty to contain their children from watching such cartoons.
Our children is our future.
Thank you for attention.
Michael, thank you for choosing my topic. I agree with you that "Lion King" is a great movie. It is so touching that I cried every time I watched it. As for "Dunno on the Moon", I also was very surprised to find out that the story is very similar to real life. I absolutely agree with you that modern cartoons are awful for children. I have a little sister, and it's a big problem that all the cartoons on TV are full of violence. My parents allow her to watch only old cartoons that are kind. And I fully support them.
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