文章大意：本文是一篇议论文。《我就是我》（又名《舞狮男孩》），一部中国动画电影，由于角色眼睛相对较小而陷入了社交媒体风暴的中心。电影制片人为了体现现实主义，选择让角色的眼睛相对较小，然而对一些人来说，这些设计是是殖民时期中国人民被夸大的形象，他们认为是对中国人的冒犯。
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I Am What I Am (also known as Lion Dance Boy), a Chinese animated feature released on Dec 17,2021, has found itself in the eye of a social media storm---about eyes.
The film revolves around three teenagers from Guangdong province who set out to master the traditional lion dance. While ancient culture is 1 to the plot, the setting is very much the real-world China of today. This alone sets the film apart from most recent Chinese animated 2 : works of high fantasy related to mythology.
Pushing the realism, the filmmakers opted to give the characters relatively small eyes. The idea was to break away from the "beauty standards of online 3 and filter aesthetic (审美) and to try "to explore the aesthetic in animation-from an angle of reality," writes The Global Times, paraphrasing producer Miao Zhang.
For some, though, the designs don't represent Chinese people so much as 4 stereotypes of them. Viewers have taken to social media to condemn the film.
"This is how Chinese people were exaggeratedly portrayed during the 5 period. We've been discriminated against for so long that this doesn't look so strange to some people" reads one Weibo user comment. Another wrote an essay arguing that "narrowed" eyes is a greater 6 to a Chinese person than imagining a Black person eating watermelon and fried chicken in the United States. Large eyes are very common in Chinese cg films. For Zhang, this reflects absorption of foreign ideas, not the small eyes his film contains. The Global Times continues:
The response to narrowed eyes" of the character shows that we lack aesthetic 7 and our aesthetic view of animation has been homogenized (统一化) given the huge influence of Japanese and American animation and the selection of such an ordinary boy perfectly depicts his spirit of strengthen and 8 to life.
I Am What I Am is popular with those who have seen it, earning user scores of 8.3 and 9.5 respectively on film reviewing platforms Douban and Maoyan. Its Chinese box office to date is 164.6 million yuan, according to Entaroup.
The question of racism aside, this controversy shows how 9 to character design can become deep-rooted in the industry, to the point where even a subtle difference makes 10 .
