The film tells the story of a French magician's declining and dull life. In order to make a living, he traveled around looking for performance opportunities. With the changes of the times, various emerging stage performances have attracted the attention of the audience, and the old-fashioned art form of magic has gradually been neglected by people. During a show celebrating the islanders' access to electric lights, he meets a little girl who thinks the magician really has magic and starts living with him. The magician saw the little girl's obsession with magic and couldn't bear to tell her the truth. Instead, he constantly "changes" what the girl wants, but such a move can only make him bankrupt...
After watching too many Hollywood cartoons, the gorgeous and exaggerated production really attracts attention, but it is almost bland and eye-catching. The aftertaste of the cartoon is still touching. The last shot comes, and the reason why the magician is doing that is known. Great fatherly love doesn't need any reason...
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