Deconstruction of brain-burning blockbuster "The Little Prince"

Palma 2022-04-21 09:02:50

When I watched it for the first time, I watched all the episodes after the fall of the little prince in anger. I didn't understand, how did the little prince grow up? He is a star on the horizon. No matter how big the smog is, you can't see the stars, but it won't pollute the stars, right? After reading it for the second time, I realized that it was not the little prince who grew up, but the little loli.
The story can be roughly divided into three and a half. The content of these three and a half stories is actually the same, that is, the story of how the "little prince" influenced the "pilot" and let them learn to look at things with their hearts.
The first story, the little prince and the pilot (stop frame), is a familiar classic.
The second story, the pilot and the little loli (reality), here the pilot plays the "little prince", so that the "pilot" played by the little loli can be freed from the life of the mother.
The third story is a bit more complicated, Little Loli and Mr. Prince (dreamland), where Little Lolita plays "Little Prince" and Mr. Prince plays "Pilot".
The reason for this dream is that the pilot Amway Little Loli's progress bar is stuck at 99%. Although Little Loli successfully got rid of observing the world through the perspective of an adult, she still cannot accept the fact that the little prince died (the pilot also died), So the little loli said what if the little prince forgot? Forgot what? So there is this dream, the little loli in the dream is the 99% progress bar, and Mr. Prince is the remaining 1%. Dreams are made up of all the things that little Loli is afraid of, the planet of adults (crystal ball), megalomaniac, paper tiger king, pragmatist businessman, Amrita examiner, imprisoned star (vacuum cleaner) and grown-up prince gentlemen. In the first part of the dream, the process of upgrading Little Lolita to 99% is actually re-figurative. In the second half of the dream, when I return to B612, 99% and 1% find that the rose is dead (symbolizing the death of the little prince in the first story, the second The pilot of the story is dead), 99% still accept the state of incompetence. At this time, the 1% is suddenly upgraded automatically, and the little loli is 100% upgraded to the little prince (the little prince of Zhengtai). Zhengtai and the loli said that you can only watch if you look carefully. It's true (although the pilot and I are dead, we live in your heart). The little loli, who was 100% successfully upgraded, finally flew out of the dream.
In the last half of the story, Little Loli turns on the Amway mode, Little Loli plays the "little prince", and her mother, classmates, and teachers play the "pilot".
Maybe "The Little Prince" is too rich in content, so the director only took a scoop of water, talking about anti-pragmatism in the front, and discussing forgetting in the back. And the story is too thin, so it is told in the form of layers of nesting. I think what the director wanted to say is that although the little prince and the pilot are dead, the "spirit of the little prince" is not extinguished. Why do you say that the little prince and the pilot are dead? The pilot said he was going to find the little prince. Maybe he knew that he was dying soon, so he said to the little loli, "Fortunately, you showed up in time." Finally, when the little loli and the obsessive-compulsive mother looked at the stars, the sky was the laughter of the little prince and the pilot.
As long as we don't forget what it's like to be a child, and we still look at the essence of things, the little prince won't die, will he?
After watching it twice, the only thing I can't let go of is Yi Yang Qianxi's dubbing, no!

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The Little Prince quotes

  • Mr. Prince: [telling The Conceited Man when he was bringing The Little Girl back to the classroom] Stop!

    [the Conceited Man stops and looks at Mr. Prince with The Little Girl was held by him]

    Mr. Prince: Take your hands off her.

    The Businessman: What? Stop?

    Mr. Prince: I-I'm not a failure.

    The Businessman: [questioned] Oh?

    Mr. Prince: ...I'm The Little Prince.

    The Businessman: [surprised] What?... He thinks he's little! And a prince!

    [he and his associates laugh; mocks]

    The Businessman: Look at me! I'm a bumblebee!

    [to one of his men]

    The Businessman: What are you? A duck?

    [the Businessman and his associates continue laughing hard]

    The Businessman: [darkly] He's hopeless.

    Mr. Prince: ...I'm not hopeless.

    [the Businessman continues laughing with his associates, and Mr. Prince then smiles]

    Mr. Prince: I'm hopeful. That's right, I'm full of hope! And I love a rose!

    [the Businessman and his men laughed hard]

    Mr. Prince: And she loves me, and she's waiting for me! So... I don't think I wanna work for you anymore.

    [the Businessman and his men ignored and still laughed]

    Mr. Prince: And um...

    [Mr. Prince removes his card from his shirt]

    Mr. Prince: ... I quit.

    [the Businessman and his associates stop laughing, causing The Little Girl to laugh]

    Mr. Prince: [laughs] I quit!

    [steps on his business card, while The Little Girl then steps on The Conceited Man's foot, freeing her, and the stuffed Fox steps on another man's foot gently, before the three start escaping]

  • The Businessman: [after using one of the stars as example for powering his planet] There, you see? The inessential has become perfectly essential.

    [to the Little Girl, angry]

    The Businessman: How it should be for all things.

    [ordering The Conceited Man and pointing to the classroom]

    The Businessman: Take her back to the classroom. Make sure no one interferes.

    [the Conceited Man grabs The Little Girl's arm as he was about to get her to the classroom, as the latter was trying to break free of The Conceited Man's grip]

    The Little Girl: No! Let me go, I can't...

    The Conceited Man: [to the Little Girl] Stop!

    The Little Girl: Don't let them do this to me!

    The Conceited Man: [to the Little Girl] I said stop!

    Mr. Prince: [to the Businessman] ... Wait.

    The Businessman: [to Mr. Prince] Wait? I've given you 371 jobs, and you have been fired from 370 of them. I think it's time you go back to work, my little failure.