In this film, the director is quite original in his choice of environment, and consistent with his overall style is the unique and peculiar environment setting. The environment of the film is mainly composed of two locations: colorful communities and terrifying castles. The environment setting of a colorful community is the gaudy satire in Tim Burton's lens, and the castle where Edward lives in the film has a strong allegory. Under the guidance of the director, the audience's understanding of the castle and the small town is finally sublimated. The seemingly horrible castle symbolizes kindness, sincerity, beauty and purity; the seemingly warm and peaceful town symbolizes evil, turbulence, Hypocrisy and conspiracy. Through Edward’s experience, the castle and the town have a deeper symbolic connotation, that is, the originally closed and small castle world symbolizes freedom and unfetteredness, while the originally open and spacious town life symbolizes restraint and restriction.
Edward Scissorhands The symbolic environment and the reflection of secular humanity
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Extended Reading
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Anne 2022-03-22 09:01:02
Tim Burton’s best work is actually his short film. Tim Burton’s ability to tell stories in the feature film seems to have declined, but he can express the emotions of the work vividly through the actors and scenes, so in this movie, what you watch is not a movie, but loneliness.
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Celestine 2022-03-24 09:01:03
The story is very simple, it is a fairy tale with a touch of Tim Burton's Gothic style.
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Peg Boggs: Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as cherry pie...
[sees Edward come toward her]
Peg Boggs: Oh - I can see that I've disturbed you. I'll just be going now...
Edward: Don't go.
Peg Boggs: [sees his scissor hands] Oh, my. What happened to you?
Edward: I'm not finished.
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Edward: Goodbye.
[Kim kisses Edward]
Kim: I love you.