Warm black fairy tale

Abe 2022-04-20 09:01:40

It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that makes me want to write a movie review.

If I have to define this movie, I think horror is inappropriate, it is more like an alternative fairy tale. It's just that the type of fairy tale is different from "from now on, the prince and princess live happily together forever", but "from now on, the little girl who sells matches and the grandma live happily together forever." I

personally think, can I understand it ? Much of the film hinges on a perception of the "afterlife."
Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, am I dreaming of butterflies, or are butterflies dreaming of me?
Survival and death, is it true that you are alive, or is it only a dream of Huang Liang to find out after death?

Perhaps for Laura, the world after death is what she wants more. Thoughts are real, feelings are real, but reality is just an illusion.

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  • Simón: [while reading Peter Pan] Wendy grows old and dies?

    Laura: Wendy grows old, but Peter Pan takes her daughter to Neverland every year.

    Simón: Why doesn't Wendy go, too? If Peter Pan came to get me, would you come, too?

    Laura: No. I'm too old to go to Neverland, darling.

    Simón: How old are you?

    Laura: Thirty-seven.

    Simón: At what age will you die?

    Laura: What sort of question is that? Not for a long time, until you're very old.

    Simón: I won't grow old. I'm not going to grow up.

    Laura: Will you be like Peter Pan?

    Simón: Like my new friends.

    Laura: There's more than one?

    Simón: Six.

    Laura: They won't grow up either?

    Simón: They can't.

  • Aurora: Seeing is not believing. It's the other way around. Believe, and you will see.