I should be considered an unqualified audience, and I will open to watch this movie only because of the good friends of Burton and Depp. It didn't even start to dawn on me after about thirty minutes of watching the movie that it wasn't quite like the dark Bolton-esque fairy tales I usually love to watch. Everything seemed so realistic, even Depp's Ed Wood himself seemed to me a normal Willy Wonka (Depp's character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Admittedly, I wanted to stop watching the film several times during the first half of the movie, because it didn't seem like the fantasy story I expected it to be.
But fortunately, I didn't miss this movie because of these preconceived and naive ideas. Of course, maybe it's because I have special expectations for Bolton.
In the middle of watching the movie, I began to reflect on whether I had overlooked something, so I temporarily looked at the information of the movie, only to realize that it was a biography of a character.
So I started to wonder.
Is there really such a person? Isn't this some sort of scene from the movie? I rely on what I just saw is true?
Slowly, I was shaken by Ed Wood.
The storyline where the protagonist of the story stands firm in the face of the negative voices of others and many difficulties and then succeeds has appeared too many times.
Every time in that situation, it's not because the protagonist is too good to do things that other people can't, or because the other people in the movie exist to set off the heroic protagonist with their own low IQ.
But this movie, or this person, made me see another possibility.
What if what the person insists on is really wrong?
Or that what he insists on is wrong in worlds other than his own little world?
What should be done?
Ed ran into this problem. But only those of us other than him, these self-righteous people, would worry about such a problem. He appears in the movie, it seems that he never thinks about such a problem.
Maybe because he's been doing the right thing.
The right things in his world.
His heart is the whole world. So he insists on doing what he thinks is right.
Because at least it can't be wrong.
I accidentally saw a sentence in the comments: "Some people see the world is not perfect, so they want to do everything they can to make his world perfect. But someone's world is perfect, so it doesn't need too much Grooming."
Maybe so, maybe not. Too bad no one can be Ed Wood except himself. So the answer should be hard to know.
The movie doesn't give a reason for Ed's fanatical obsession with the movie, but out of personal curiosity, I can only get the answers that may just be what I want from a small clip of the movie.
In the second half of the movie, Ed meets the guy he says is just like him in a bar, and the guy says to him,
"You can make other people's dreams."
I can only guess that maybe that's what Ed loves to do so much. The reason for the movie.
Such a person, living in a world beyond my reach, I dare not draw conclusions about any of his actions. No reasoning can strictly infer a single answer. So I can only guess beyond my own power, and look up at the distant world where he is.
All I know is that Ed is a weirdo, not like me, nor like most people in this world.
So he needs to face the problem that many weirdos in the world have to face:
Does he need to pretend to be the same as other so-called normal people in the world and hide in the crowd to reduce most of his survival resistance?
He chose not to.
Many people may not choose this.
Ed has left.
So the world becomes more boring.
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