Saint-Exupéry writes more like an adult fable, with stories and characters full of metaphors.
And these, children do not understand.
For a long time, I just wondered, has the little prince gone back?
Years later, I realized that the fox's words about "taming" turned out to be love.
I've read The Little Prince many times and it doesn't take too long each time. This was originally a very short story, even with very wide line spacing, leaving almost half a page of margins, and it was still only a thin volume.
The good thing about The Little Prince is that when you read it at different times, you will have different experiences. When I was a child, I watched the little prince's interstellar adventures; I read about roses and foxes, the entanglement of love and being loved in adolescence; when I was an adult, I saw the childish playfulness of Saint-Exupéry and the sadness of death.
There are words like poetry in it.
"I've seen forty-three sunsets in one day. You know, people like sunsets when they're very depressed."
"At night, when you look at the sky, since I live on one of the stars , since I am smiling on one of the stars, it will seem to you that all the stars are smiling, and the stars you will see are the ones that smile."
"You see, the road is long. I can't walk with this body. It's too heavy."
Saint-Exupéry used subtle brushstrokes to avoid the boundaries that children could understand, but quietly buried the saddest at the end of the story.
A complex taste, yet extraordinarily simple, clean, and pure. It faces childhood and alludes to the sadness of growing up. This is an emotion that crosses cultures and races, and may be the reason for the popularity of The Little Prince.
Speaking of this animation.
"The Little Prince" is not suitable for videography. Like prose, the story is divergent and random, without a compact main line, and it lacks opposition and conflict.
So, in the movie, another time and space is created. In that space, the world is precisely controlled, and adults are like machines on an assembly line, mechanizing and repeating boring work every day. Numbers, reports, performance, and meetings fill life, cold and rigid.
There is a little girl in this world.
Her goal is to enter a prestigious school and succeed in accordance with her mother's expectations.
Her life is charted, and strictly quantifiable indicators keep her busy every day, until he meets the weird old man in the flight suit next door, reads a story about the "little prince", and begins his own adventure, Retrieving the missing prince...
From the degree of completion, the movie "The Little Prince" probably only did 50 points of excellence.
The original story has become a play within a play, which is precisely the most beautiful and delicate part of the movie. The picture is processed into the form of paper-cut and hand-painted, which perfectly restores the look of the original work.
After all, this is the French's own classic.
In the first half of the movie, the year-long friendship between the child and the old man is full of childlike interest, and the beautiful OST adds to the atmosphere. But in the end, the film still uncontrollably goes into a Hollywood-style adventure, where the industrialist becomes the villain, and the little prince becomes a sullen, timid and cowardly adult.
This isn't new, and it's hardly interesting, but it seems logical.
The theme of the animation is the heart of a child, "I don't want to become such an adult". However, the logic of reality is that the movie needs the box office, takes into account the tastes of more non-original readers, and needs a more popular story. Adaptation or helplessness is also satire.
As a viewer, I can't speak for the majority and ask for more.
I can only pick up the parts that I feel radiant as much as possible while being a little disappointed.
The little prince is still gentle. He may have left the main theme of the original book, but he also told another tender story about growing up.
Just evoking good memories, "The Little Prince" is already worth the ticket price.
Could the old man in the animation be the pilot Saint-Exupéry who disappeared in 1944? Will the little prince really return to his own planet? Will the world get better?
It doesn't matter, don't give me an answer, I have grown up and have my own attitude and way of dealing with the world.
In this world, if there is a star that belongs to you, then the whole night sky will smile at you; if you have a rose, then she is the only one in the whole universe.
To see this perhaps boring world from a better perspective, and to make myself a better person, this may be what the little prince taught me.
PS:
1. I heard that the national distribution is a mess, so I went to two theaters to watch the English version.
2. OST is actually the work of Hans Lonely God.
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