Bug me not was a Chinese movie that would be appropriate for the ages 12 and up. This film had real people as well as animated bugs of all kinds which spoke to the humans. These children who were in the movie were probably eight grade or high school students. This movie had some suggestive language. This movie was not rated and the rating was N/R on the cover. This movie starts with a little girls in a field of grass talking to some bugs. Her mom tells her she may not talk to these bugs any more (gibberish) and start speaking correctly. Some of the children in this movie had special powers and the teenager in this movie (moon) understood these bugs since she was young. Some of the special powers in this movie were: calling all bugs, magic tree's, talking bugs, not being able to touch other people, etc. Moon had this ladybug help her win this young boys heart (Hyland). Other adults always tried to kill the bugs if they seen them, so she had to keep them hidden. When the bugs watched a man capture, what they thought was the "leader" of the bugs, and then kill the bug, they all freaked out and wanted to attack the teenagers. Meanwhile, the teenagers are singing and dancing with flashlights at night looking for these bugs. They finally succeed and find the bugs and the leader of the bugs is not dead! All the bugs and teenagers are excited. Finally, the movie ends where the story begins,at that is in a field of tall grass. Moon tells Hyland she loves him while they are hanging out in the grass. They run of and play with each other. This movie has great quality in filming with animation and bright colors. This movie was one hour and twenty seven minutes long.
This is a Wiki reference to Chinese Cinema, it shares the history of film throughout hundreds of years. CHECK IT OUT! :
This is an article about Chinese media: It basically summarizes a book about children in china who watch films from their country. We see that their interactions are different between being able to see media and movies at home vs. at school. Here in America things like media is readily available to many children. One of the points of this book was that Chinese film has the main focus on education where as American children's films focus solely on entertainment. Which after I watched this movie I did not understand the educational value of this movie. I viewed this movie as pure entertainment and did not receive any educational value from this movie. I found this topic mentioned in the article very interesting based on the movie I viewed from china; however, movies in china may have that goal in mind.
This is a clip from Bug Me Not!: (this link will allow you to pick and choose the clips you would like to see)
This film looks so cute! As I read through some of the information u posted. The article mentioned that are "educational" intentions that are far more than their American films. So true I also noticed that when I read your post. I like that the children watching this can gain something from a film. What do you think kids could learn from this film?
ReplyDeleteIn so many children's films ( Shrek, Madagascar, Chicken Little. where animals take on personification, Do you think that even though these animals have human like speech and mannerisms that movies should depict the negative ones? ( example animals telling jokes or messages with sexual undertones?) Did you see any of this in this film?
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