"The bad taste of the dream-eating tapir. 』

Antone 2022-01-02 08:01:28

Speaking of Jean-Pierre Gennet, what do you think of? Is it "Angels Love Beauty" or "Black Shop Rhapsody"? "Children's Dreams Lost Night", a fantasy film with a distinctive label of Jean Pierre Gennet, unconstrained imagination, absurd stories, and Gothic-style images. The short woman with big head reminds me of the Queen of Hearts played by Tim Burton's Helena in "Alice in Wonderland". The whole movie is a black fairy tale. If there are no dreams, you will accelerate aging. This is also the bitterness of Doctor Strange, suffering from the torment of not being able to dream, and because he cannot shed tears, he will age rapidly because of this, so he had to steal the children’s dreams, because children’s dreams are always beautiful and full of fantasy. It's a pity that their dream turned into a gloomy, melancholic nightmare when it came to the doctor. Dream is a kind of subjective experience. It is the image, sound, thought or feeling that a person produces during sleep, usually involuntarily. Psychologist Freud believes that dreams are the satisfaction of subconscious desires, and people can effectively suppress the subconscious in a waking state, so that those desires that violate moral customs cannot do whatever they want. But when a person enters a state of sleep or relaxation, some desires will evade the subconscious inspection function, secretly emerge from the conscious level, and express themselves in various images. This is the formation of dreams. Dream is a substitute for human desire, it is the main way to release depression, in the form of a fantasy, to experience this coveted instinctive satisfaction. The use of dreams as a topic in movies is nothing new. From Jin Min's "Red Pepper" to Nolan's "Inception of Dreams", all kinds of imagination about dreams are displayed in the video works. In Pierre's film, dreams can be transplanted. People want to steal other people's dreams, but the gains outweigh the gains. In my impression, most of the colorful dreams are only in childhood. It seems that the older you grow up, the more complex the dreams are, and the easier it is to have nightmares and bizarre scenes. If the dream is a subconscious withdrawal, it can only mean that people have grown up, their thoughts have become complicated, and troubles will follow. It's not that children have no troubles, but their troubles come quickly and go quickly. Sleep is the carrier of dreams, but not all sleep is accompanied by dreams. That's why Doctor Strange wants to kidnap the children and steal their dreams. In ancient Chinese legends, there is a kind of sacred beast-eating tapir. Tapir is a legendary creature from China to Japan. It is said to live by eating dreams of people. Sometimes after a nightmare, it says "(give this dream) to the tapir." , Which means that I hope I don’t want to dream of this kind of thing again. But dream-eating tapirs will not eat dreams, so this tapir that eats dreams is really a bad-taste dream-eating tapir. There has always been an illusion, let Tim Burton and Pierre Genet collaborate once , Then it will be an unparalleled Gothic fairy tale. Dreams are idiotic, but fortunately I can still have dreams, although they are not all sweet dreams.

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  • Jorge 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    The film's surrealism came first, followed by the director's super-romance in "Angel Emily"

  • Tobin 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Very beautiful movie, as for the picture, oh my god, the recognition is too high

The City of Lost Children quotes

  • le scaphandrier: The Children!

    Miette: What about them? What do you know?

    le scaphandrier: He takes them. The Devil takes them away. In his boat... he takes them to Hell.

    Miette: What Hell?

    le scaphandrier: The tattooed man: he knows where. The map... the map of the minefield is tattooed on his body.

  • L'oncle Irvin: [after Krank's latest failiure] Who stole the child's dreams? Krank, in his evil schemes. But the happy tale had a sting in it's tail. The genius has a fit of pique, hear the genius shriek, the 'genius' is up a creek.