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Confront unbearable reality with dreams
Idell 2022-04-20 09:01:28
It is hard to imagine that such a tragedy of "Flying Over the Cuckoo's Nest" + "Shutter Island" is actually expressed in the entertainment effect of fantasy animation, making people indulge in the contradiction between pain and enjoyment and cannot extricate themselves. The themes of freedom and dignity are no less than those two serious films. The film makes people admire the first is the dreamy but clear image style, and the second is the wonderful double metaphor. The heroine's battles with samurai, army, dragons, and robots are all used as a metaphor for "dance", and "dance" is an insinuation and self-motivation for being abused in the real world. When the heroine knew that she was going to be brainwashed, she showed incomparable calmness, because she understood that only death can be exchanged for liberation and freedom. In the fantasy world, she has always relied on dancing (devotion) to please others, to convince herself, to delay the moment so that her sisters can escape, but she finally understands that only by sacrifice and no longer pleasing can she completely escape this never-ending life without feeling it. Endless misery. And the innocence, cowardice and disunity of the little girls proves that you, me and him who are willing to be enslaved by the real world and never wake up...
Extended Reading
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Wiseman: Oh, yeah. One last thing.
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Blue Jones: I try to give you all... a good life. I try. I do. And all I ask for in return is just for... respect... honesty. You know-- Oh, that's okay, Margaret. A give-and-take relationship. But it's come to my attention-- it's come to our attention... that a few bad eggs... led by one little egg in particular... have spit in the face of that generosity... and are plotting against me. Me. Your father. Your lover. Your employer. Plotting to take from me my most precious possessions. Your very selves.