May 1

The Jungle Book

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This weekend, I watched the movie The Jungle Book. It tells a story of an orphan boy named Mowgli raised by a wolf mother as a “man cub”. But when the dry season comes, tiger Shere Khan declares that he will be eaten after the season since he will eventually become a full-grown man. In order to keep him safe, black panther Bagheera decided to send him to human village, on the way, they get lost, Mowgli meets bear Baloo, who saved him form the python Kaa. In order to lure Mowgli out, Shere Khan killed the leader of the wolves Akela; Mowgli goes back as he expected; the final war breaks, Mowgli uses his human trick to win this battle, and for the first time, animals in jungle stand in one line.

The movie is full of imaginations and every single animal has its emotion world; they communicate with each other in different ways. One of the most touching things in this movie for me is the emotions and relationship between all the animals and Mowgli; they help each other and fight for each other, I can see love between them. The emotions are expressed through their eyes, you can see happiness, sadness, disappointment and fear in their eyes.

Another thing I learnt from The Jungle Book was always be yourself. In the final battle, Mowgli uses human trick to beat Shere Khan rather than being a wolf and fight. In the beginning of the movie, Mowgli is always taught to be a wolf instead of using human tricks. As the story goes on, human tricks works better and better, Mowgli is also being more like himself. In the end, truth proves the importance of being himself, being a human being rather than wolf and trust himself.

The Jungle Book also blames human’s actions to animals and the earth from tell a story in jungle. In the movie, fire is called “red flower”, as people travel through the jungle, they bring “red flower” and it destroys everything it meets, it kills lives and burns down trees. The reason why Shere Khan wants to kill Mowgli so much is Mowgli’s father used the “red flower” to make him half blind. This movie is a wake-up call to human beings, what we have done makes animals fear us, the only thing they know is we are there to destroy, destroy the peace, destroy the home and kill.

It is a worth watching movie, it makes people think while being attracted to its exciting story and imagination.

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