Film Name: 比得兔 / Peter Rabbit
Just as the protagonist Bea’s paintings depict both the serene life of Peter Rabbit and baffling modernist elements, the CG film adaptation of Peter Rabbit bears little resemblance to its picture book origins. I can only say that if this mischievous, troublemaking Peter Rabbit were the protagonist of the book, it certainly wouldn’t have endured for a century.
This is the most foul-mouthed, most viciously violent family-friendly animation I’ve ever seen—if it can even be called “family-friendly” at all. I strongly advise parents not to take their children to see this film. It contains excessive fantasy violence and promotes values that are utterly unacceptable.
Right from the start, Peter Rabbit leads his fellow rabbits to raid Mr. McGregor’s vegetable garden. Though this garden had once been the rabbits’ playground, the sense of entitlement in their theft and destruction feels deeply unsettling. Worse still, their mischief directly triggers Old McGregor’s fatal heart attack. The rabbits react with schadenfreude, devoid of any trace of human kindness. Throughout the story, Peter never formally apologized for the rabbits’ destruction of the McGregor family’s garden. His final apology focused solely on jealousy over the relationship between Mr. McGregor Jr. and Bea, and on his failure to provide a better life for his siblings.
The Peter Rabbits knew full well that Mr. McGregor was allergic to blueberries, yet they still attacked him with blueberries. Not only did they hit him in the face, but they deliberately aimed for his mouth to trigger his allergy. What kind of behavior is this? How is it fundamentally different from the dehumanizing acts committed in the dungeons of Zhaozigou? If a child who is also allergic to blueberries were to see this scene, how would they feel? Is being allergic to blueberries a crime? Should it be something to fear?
What I find most unacceptable is that Peter Rabbit repeatedly connects wires to Mr. McGregor’s door handle, subjecting him to electric shocks. When McGregor gets flung three or five meters away by the door handle and lands sprawled on the ground, I genuinely can’t laugh at all. What a vicious prank! Is this something a kind person would do? If children see this scene and think household electricity is such a “fun” thing that can fling people three or five meters away, and then start imitating it, how terrifying would that be?
When I heard Sony was adapting the Peter Rabbit storybook, I was genuinely excited. But it’s rare for a Hollywood studio to fail so completely at ensuring basic film integrity. The movie portrays Peter Rabbit as manic, arrogant, even malicious and ruthless, inflicting severe damage on this century-old brand. Frankly, it stands as a spectacularly failed adaptation.
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