Last week, we watched short film called "The mantis parable." There were a lot of insects in this film such as mantis, caterpillar and butterfly. The caterpillar was so cute. I guess people in my IE3 class have different ideas about what the film maker wants to tell us, so I'll write my own opinion and feeling on this blog.
One day a caterpillar was caught by a boy, whose hobby was to catch many insects and make a botanical specimen. The boy put the caterpillar into a bottle and the caterpillar was surprised to see a botanical specimen around it. The caterpillar tried to escape from it because he didn't want to be killed like the many insects on the botanical specimen. Fortunately a mantis came to his house and found a caterpillar in a bottle, so a caterpillar asked the mantis to help but the mantis couldn't. This is because the mantis couldn't open the lid of the bottle by himself. The mantis gave up to help the caterpillar and gestured for the caterpillar to give up living and DIE! However, when the mantis was about to fly away, the mantis was caught by the boy. This was the main problem in this film, I thought. We couldn't see the caterpillar after the mantis was caught. I guess this is because the boy preferred the mantis to the caterpillar and he threw away the caterpillar. The caterpillar regretted what he did against the caterpillar. The mantis was quite resolved to be killed at that time, but a butterfly came and helped the mantis with his magical power. I think probably the caterpillar metamorphosed into that butterfly and the butterfly remembered the mantis, so the butterfly came to save him.
I guess what the film maker wanted to tell us was that it's too late for regrets.In this film, the butterfly was so kind and remembered the mantis by chance, so he saved the mantis's life. However, if that butterfly was not kind, the mantis would be killed by the boy. It's too late to regret what you have done...
See you tomorrow!!
