I said 5 years ago that Disney would never let me down.
In this era of impetuousness as a personality, this sentence makes me tremble. Watching the entire film with trepidation, I let out a sigh of relief.
This is a story about "reminiscence".
Whether it is the black and white foreshadowing in the opening 20 minutes, or the worship of Edison and movie magic at the end of the film, the whole film is full of a kind of "respect" feeling. All the technologies in the history of film development are basically reflected in this film, black and white, 3D, live-action animation interaction...
God said that there should be light in this world, so there is light, and the shadow came together as a lover of light. World. Whether it was Edison or Lumière, human beings finally invited this pair of "lovers" to the screen and wrapped them in the coat of art, so we have a movie. From black and white to color, from silent to sound, from live action to animation, from plane to 3D, human beings use all their imaginations, decorate everything with technology, and impact our hearing, vision and everything.
The black and white section of the opening chapter once surprised me for a while. The 20 minutes of old dialogue and old bridges made me secretly speculate on the director's intentions. It was not until the hot air balloon flew into the sky, saying goodbye to the oppressive reality of black and white and entering the magical world of colorful splendor, that I understood the arrangement first and then raised, and felt a touch of "helplessness" at the same time.
There was a time when we became intolerable to be "flat". When you accept the voice, you no longer accept the silence. Once you feel the color, you will no longer accept white ink. Human eyes are always searching for the freshness and excitement that cannot be grasped, and even spare no effort to create the grandeur and grandeur that nature has never had before. 3D, all the technologies of imax let us enjoy the visual feast in jaw-dropping, and can't extricate ourselves, and I am no exception.
However, after washing away the brilliance, everything will return to "light and shadow" at that moment when Park Guizhen. People who are depressed after watching the 20-minute black-and-white part may have to reflect on whether we are not getting enough, or whether we are forgetting too much.
This is a story about redemption
The setting of the realistic black and white world and the magical color world fills this story with a "subversive" flavor. The appearance of the male protagonist is not pleasing (except for his appearance), deceived by the "village girl", persistent with the "assistant", cowardly with the "girlfriend", and fanatical about the "money", all I see is a glib "Artist". Until the little girl in the wheelchair said "I believe in you", the trace of "kindness" in the male protagonist's eyes made me see a glimmer of hope.
How long does it take to go from a "busker" to a "magician"?
How long does it take to go from dreaming of being "great" to being truly "great"?
How long is the road from redeeming "others" to redeeming "self"?
No way of knowing, but always take the first step.
The first step of the male lead is still very dazzling. (After the baptism of 20 minutes of black and white film, the fall of the hot air balloon and the visual impact of the magic peach blossom garden is self-evident)
The road to redemption is not short, how can you be without companions for a day. So we have the mapping of the "assistant" in the real world - the monkey, and the mapping of the "wheelchair girl" in the real world - the porcelain doll. One for "loyalty" and one for "trust". What is lacking in the real world must be filled in the mirror. Imagine if there is no loyal partner, and the fetters of trust in a person's life, if there is a long way to go.
Speaking of partners, I have to mention the three witch sisters. In order to take care of the children's aesthetic taste, the director put on costumes representing good and evil for them. Let us summarize them as the kind white witch and the angry red witch. , with the evil green witch. (The color of the red witch after her transformation is difficult to distinguish....) The white witch should be the reflection of the male protagonist's girlfriend in the real world. I think the red witch should represent all the resentful women who have been "molested" by the male protagonist, while those who are full of lies and deceit The green witch should represent the male protagonist himself.
To defeat the green witch's lie, cowardice is the first step of the male protagonist's self-salvation. The flying monkey gave him loyalty, the porcelain doll gave him trust, the white witch gave him courage, plus his own kindness that encouraged him to pass the "magic wall", as well as the encouragement of the NPCs, and of course the director's support for "movie magic" Worship, everything wins logically. As for the evolution of the Scarlet Witch into the final boss, I can only say: "It is dangerous to molest women, and you must be careful when you play with your emotions."
When OZ distributed the gifts to everyone at the end of the play, we reached the end of the Wizarding World together. .
Maybe we don't have to be as great as we think we are, but as great as the other person feels.
Maybe we don't have to demand honesty, selflessness, bravery, but just keep that little bit of kindness.
Maybe we'll never start, but we'll never end...
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