Is it ironic that a pilot created the story of "The Little Prince" and brought childhood imaginations to children all over the world, while he was killed in the war? In this context, the film is destined to be not as simple as it seems.
In the film, "The Little Prince" is a story created by the old man, and he himself is the pilot in the story. In fact, the pilot was the author of the original book The Little Prince. The film not only substitutes the author into his own story, but also depicts his old life. This is the director's respect for the author and a good wish to satisfy everyone - if the author of "The Little Prince" can keep that innocence and live to old age How wonderful!
The movie is not about the well-known fairy tale of the little prince. The movie just uses the little prince to tell another story, a story about growth and loss.
The protagonist of the story is a little girl who lives in a busy and busy adult world. Although neatly planned, she is full of depression everywhere. The film uses cool tones to express the adult world, so the opposite warm tones are more appropriate to express innocence. But in the little girl's city, there were only a few warm colors—it was the home of a dirty old man with a beard—next door to the little girl's new home.
The girl came into contact with the world of children through the story of the little prince. After living in the world of adults for several years, she was quickly fascinated, and soon, she began to escape the world of adults.
The old man was very happy to see that the little girl liked his story so much. When he was about to leave, finally someone could listen to his story. Yes, the old man didn't have much time. He would lie down for a few days when he fell at home. He knew it very well, so he sent the story of the little prince to the little girl early.
The girl regards the little prince as a treasure. She is full of imagination because of the little prince, and she finds innocence because of the little prince. No, it is better to say that the old man is more accurate than the little prince. The old man brings her imagination and happiness that belong to a child, while the little prince The prince is the product of their imagination and their bond.
However, the children's code of conduct does not work in the adult world, just as adults obstruct them in every possible way, in the eyes of children, the adult world is so abhorrent. When the old man took the girl to dinner, in the eyes of the girls, they were just going to celebrate their birthday, but in the eyes of adults, it was dangerous driving without a license, the police ordered the stop, and the girl's mother was furious. Of course, for us now, this is dangerous driving, so the police and the girl's mother are not wrong, but the movie looks at the problem from the perspective of the girl, and the adults in the movie forget the perspective of being a child.
The movie looks at things from the perspective of a girl, so the adult world is cold, and the children's world is warm, whether it is the real world in front or the imaginary world in the back. Yes, the whole process of the girl flying the plane to find the little prince is all fake and the product of her imagination. Ah, finally getting to the point, maybe we should take a good look at it.
I remember when the girl was going to look for the little prince, she brought the fox to the old man's house, and then she saw the repaired plane. In fact, the plane has not been repaired. The old man has repaired it for so many years, but the plane is still so bad that even the propeller of the nose will be detached. Just a few days, the old man can't repair it. At first, the girl wanted to go with the old man to find the little prince, but the old man did not agree. The adult's blame was only part of the reason. The meaning of the old man's words was the key - "If the day comes when I should leave, I can only go alone", The implication is that the plane cannot take off, and only when he leaves this world can he find the little prince in the fairy tale.
When the girl got on the plane, the fox moved, but in fact the fox was just a puppet, but the little girl was not surprised at all, why, because this is all the imagination of the little girl, she imagined herself in the world of the little prince, and Everything in the little prince's world has spirits, so it's not surprising that the fox lived her.
Remember when the old man asked the girl if she had a driver's license or a driving permit, and the girl answered no. Yes, how could such a young girl have a driver's license, but she, who can't even drive a car, flew a plane and successfully drove to another planet. Why, because this is all her imagination.
In an unreasonable way, the girl came to a small planet. This is a world of adults only. The adults here will only work repetitively and endlessly. We can also see through their way of life at a glance - monotonous, boring, depressing, Dead silence. This is a microcosm of the little girl's world, a more exaggerated adult world.
Here, the little girl meets the characters in fairy tales - a hypocritical gentleman, an arrogant king, and a greedy businessman, which are also the three appearances of the adult world - hypocrisy, arrogance, and greed. The girl finally found the little prince, but the little prince became what she was afraid of - an adult who had forgotten his innocence and would only do mediocre work. Since this is her imaginary world, why did she imagine the little prince like this, I think the reason has to start from the front.
The girl wanted to go to the well with the old man, but the old man refused. The old man was blamed by people. In addition, he knew that his time was short and he could no longer continue the fairy tale for the girl. He thought of bringing the little girl back to reality, so he fabricated it The end of the story - the little prince died. The old man explained it to her, and she questioned it this way--
"What if he didn't come back to his rose, what if he grew up alone, what if he got lost, what if he forgot everything!" Obviously, the image of the little prince in the imaginary world came from here. These are exactly what she is afraid of, so she wants to save the little prince, just like saving herself.
In the process of saving the little prince, you will find a lot of familiar things - the icy house, the coiled plane, the stars trapped in the hood and the sky, as well as the aforementioned adult world and three A story character, why, because this imaginary world comes from what she usually sees and thinks.
In the end, the girl was successfully rescued. The little prince remembered the past and returned to the original planet with the little girl. Here is the expression of the little girl's hope that she doesn't want the little prince to forget the past, and she doesn't want her to lose her innocence (forget the old man).
The little prince saw the rose, but the rose had withered. The little girl sadly told the old man a monologue. Was it a little abrupt and seemed illogical, but it made sense: this was in her imaginary world, and the little prince was like herself, and Rose is the dirty old man. This is not speculation, there is solid evidence in the film: after watching the story of the separation of the little prince and the fox, the girl said: "He already has a rose, but I still need you", she compared the rose to the old man, the rose to the prince , like an old man is to a girl. The old man was about to die, and the roses withered, and all the feelings of the old man's departure were all told in front of the roses.
But in the end why did she understand? In fact, not only because of the story of the little prince, but also because of the old man. In the story of the little prince, the fox said something like this: "Only with the heart can you see the real thing. Important things are invisible to the naked eye." The little girl didn't understand this sentence at the time, why? Look at what she said at that time: the
old man said: "As long as the little fox looks carefully, he will see the little prince, and when you learn it, you will never be lonely." The
little girl replied: "Yes, but I Not lonely, I have you with me."
Because the old man was with me, the little girl didn't understand this sentence. The next time I came to the old man's house, after listening to the ending, the little girl said, "Do you want me to do the same after you left? Look up at the stars in the sky and convince yourself that you are still by my side?" Understand, and the fairy tale was written by the old man himself, of course he knew very well, he said: "child, as long as you look carefully, I will always be by your side, just like I know that the little prince will always be with his rose."
Only by looking at the heart can you see the real thing. The important things are invisible to the naked eye. The little prince understood this sentence, so he didn't care about the useless expelling so much, so he abandoned the expelling and became the old man's written ending. The old man wrote the ending because he wanted to bring the little girl back to reality, but why did he write such an ending? Because he was about to leave, he could no longer bring beautiful fairy tales to the little girl, so he wrote the ending of the little prince's death, intending to tell the little girl:
If I die, please don't be sad, the body is just a useless appearance, the important thing is invisible to the naked eye, it is in your heart, but its trace is hard to find, because only by looking with the heart can you see it truly, you If you look carefully, you will find that I am by your side. The little prince understands this truth, do you understand?
The little girl understood, and through the little prince in her heart, she finally understood, and everything suddenly became clear.
Although the little prince lost the rose, as long as he looked up at the sky, he could still see her splendor. Although the little girl lost the old man, as long as she looked carefully, the old man never left. The joy that the old man brought her, The innocence brought to her is sealed in her heart.
After several times, I finally wrote it here. My understanding of this film gradually deepened as the number of words increased. Especially in the last stage, when I was writing, my nose suddenly became sore and I almost burst into tears - just watched it. I didn't feel this way when I finished the movie, but as I got a deeper understanding, I looked back at the movie, and I was so moved.
The overall analysis of this movie is almost over when the little girl understands it, but the details of this movie are far from that, and they all stand up to scrutiny. Here I choose three scenes for brief analysis.
The first scene: Asteroids. Remember the first asteroid? When the little prince came back, he was already occupied by the bread tree, and the roses withered in the little corner. But when the girl understood, the bread tree disappeared without a trace, and the asteroid returned to its most beautiful moment. This was not a painting mistake, because it was the little girl's imagination, or it was her inner activity. As I said before, in a girl’s heart, a rose is equal to an old man. This is an equivalent comparison in the movie. In addition, there is also a comparison of colors in the movie-cold colors that symbolize the adult world and warm colors that symbolize the world of children. . Both comparisons are now being used on this scene - the cool-toned bread tree and the warm-toned rose. The roses surrounded by layers of cool-colored bread trees, don't you feel like the old man's home in the adult world? On this cold planet, the only warm color is about to wither. Will I have to face the cold in the future? No, because the little girl understands that as long as she looks carefully, the innocence is always there, and the old man has not left, so the cold The adult world is not scary, as long as you remember, happiness will always be with you, which is why the bread tree will disappear without a trace under the light of the rose. So, the question is, why are the adults in the movie not happy? In fact, I already gave the answer: adults have forgotten the perspective of being a child. Therefore, the adults in the film are all poor characters, and they are also negative teaching materials written by the author for the theme. So what is the theme of the movie? No answer here.
The second scene: the desert. This part is original to the movie, and it is also the most difficult part of the whole film in my opinion. This part tells the story of the little prince and the pilot, and in the end the little prince died in Shekou. On the surface, the death of the little prince was because the pilot disturbed the snake. He was afraid that the snake would hurt the pilot, so he sacrificed his life. I think the actual reason, even this entire original plot, is to serve the theme of the movie, then What is the theme? I will analyze it at the end of the article. The story in the desert can be roughly divided into three parts: sheep, well, and snake.
Regarding the sheep part, the pilot drew three sheep, all of which were rejected, and finally drew a square, which was approved by the little prince. In our opinion, this is a cube, how can it be a sheep? This is our mind being restrained, who stipulates that sheep must be like that? If our minds are so constrained, why do we still watch the fairy tale "The Little Prince"? In the fairy tale of the little prince, such a world exists, and there are also square sheep, so they draw square sheep to show that they are innocent people, and the reason for drawing square is irony. Those who follow the rules and have long lost their innocence.
Regarding the well, if according to our logic, there is no such well in the desert, but this is not our world, this is the fairy tale of the little prince, so don't look at it according to our logic. So what's the point of this plot? I think it is also related to growth and loss. The desert and the well are actually like the bread tree and the rose, and the adult world is the same as the old man. In the vast desert, although wells are rare, they are sweet and delicious. The first sentence the girl said when she went to the old man for the last time was "Let's find a well". This sentence has an insinuation. For the little girl, it is about going on an adventure with the old man, but looking at the whole movie, it is more Interesting, because this sentence appeared after the adults got angry, so the little girl's sentence is completely "let's find a well in this desert", yes, the desert she said refers to the adult world , adults are as numerous and disgusting as deserts, and innocence is as scarce and sweet as well water.
Regarding the snake part, I think the role of the snake is to foreshadow the death of the little prince, but there is not much to say, but it may be that I did not understand it.
The third scene: the final story. The reason why I took this part to the end is because I think this part is the most important, and I think this part is the most delicate part of the whole film.
This paragraph was introduced by the girl who wanted to take a plane, so why did the girl suddenly want to take a plane? Because the old man told the girl last time that he might "leave" soon, when the girl looked at the fading stars in the morning, it was like seeing the old man slowly leaving her. She felt nervous, so she packed up. , to find a happy adventure with the old man. When the door was opened, the old man looked tired and apologetic, while the girl walked towards the plane on her own, completely unaware of the old man's sigh. The old man later told the little girl the ending of the story, and there was such a sentence in it -
"This is just a useless shell, you don't need to be sad for the useless shell"
In fact, this sentence was written for the little girl, the little girl The girl is very smart. Although she didn't understand the deep meaning, she knew that the old man was telling her—"Although I am dying, you don't have to be sad for me."
She didn't dare to agree with what he said, and she was afraid that the old man would leave— (Holds the puppet tightly) "Do you want me to do the same after you leave? Look up at the stars in the sky and convince yourself that you are still by my side?" The
old man said to her seriously: "Child, as long as you pay attention to it Look, I'll always be by your side" (don't be afraid, boy, I'll always be there for you) "Like I knew the little prince would be with his rose" (the key to the little prince and the rose being together, is Heart).
"But you can't guarantee it!" (You just leave me alone? You can't guarantee that I will grow up well by myself! You can't guarantee that I won't forget my innocence and become like them!)
"If He didn't come back to his rose, what if he grew up alone, what if he got lost, what if he forgot everything!" She was afraid of becoming an adult forgetting the innocence, said the little prince, In fact, she also said it herself, the
girl did not understand in the end. The little prince is dead, and the old man will also leave. The dream that the old man weaved for her is now fragmented, and she has to face the cold world of adults again. She loves the old man, but she also hates the old man - why did you let the little prince die? She cherishes the old man, but she also resents the old man-why do you want me to calmly leave you? You make me happy and sad, weave a dream for me but shred it, then I might as well never live, at least I still have a summer vacation to prepare for school!
With mixed feelings, the little girl ran away, she did not admit the ending of the story, nor did she accept the reality that the old man was about to leave.
She hid in the adult world, trying to forget everything, but at the moment when the old man was loaded into the ambulance, everything could not be concealed, she couldn't hear anything anymore, she chased frantically towards the distant car shadow. The red light flashed across her anxious look, the rain beat mercilessly on her face, she shook her wet hair, and drove towards the hospital again and again.
She should leave, she can't keep it.
"The pilot needs you, I must find you" This is the reason why she went to the little prince, but in fact, it is not the pilot who needs the little prince, but the little girl who needs the old man. The old man has left, and where should she go? So here you go to find the answer for yourself.
The little girl doesn't want to become an adult, so she has been saving the little prince who has become an adult, and she is also saving herself. In the end, she was successfully rescued, briefly escaped from the adult world, and returned to the past with the little prince to find roses and innocence. However, the rose withered, the old man left, and the little girl will return to the adult world. She cried sadly: "I will grow up, I will forget all about him, (but) I don't want to lose him".
But in the end, the "Little Prince" that the old man left to her allowed her to find the answer. This journey made her understand the deep meaning of the old man and dispelled the shadow in her heart. At the moment of sunrise, the little prince saw the rose, and what she saw was the old man, "She is a unique rose in the whole universe", which is also the old man in the girl's heart, "I will remember every detail of her, she did not disappear, she It's still here, and you can only see it if you look at it with your heart." This is also the girl's answer.
With this answer, she returned to reality from the imaginary world, and this day was the start of school, but she was no longer afraid, and she was able to face this adult world calmly.
Only here, this is already a touching movie, if you can savor it carefully, I think it will make you cry too. However, this movie doesn't stop there, he implied deep meaning, making the movie sublime again. So what's the point of this movie? In fact, its deep meaning is also its theme:
"The Little Prince" is a childhood book. It doesn't grow old, but we grow up and integrate into a terrible society, just like the little prince in the movie. We will forget our innocence, lose our imagination, become a dull adult, we will become vain, chasing fame and fortune, and get tired of running around for no reason. It sounds terrible, but it doesn't mean that we can escape. What should come will come, and we can't keep what should leave, so we can only face it calmly. We don't need to be afraid, as long as we look at it with our heart, the innocence will never leave, we will still be me, with this calm heart, the society will no longer be scary, we will be different from the dull people, because we will have hapiness.
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