I remember watching TV with my grandma in the past. Movies like "Da Song's Punishment" have scenes that made grandma burst into tears. I laughed and said, "Isn't it?" Grandma said: People are old and soft-hearted. I don't understand why people become soft-hearted when they get old. Is it because the body is getting weaker and weaker and the mind is also getting softer? maybe. Later I understood why I would be soft-hearted. Because I understand it, I feel it.
The old magician Paspas can still see the glory of the past, and his behavior reflects the bearing and self-cultivation of an old French gentleman. Opening the door to invite guests in is a kind of self-cultivation. The posters that I carry with me tell the story of what was once bustling and now depressed. The magician who can only turn into a rabbit can only win applause in a tavern in an Irish village in the era of rock and roll and television. And there, not only applause, but also Alice.
I've always taken the word naive in a derogatory sense, maybe because I'm not, maybe I don't know if I am. Innocent is good, why be naive? Naive is a tragedy, to myself and to others. Innocent Alice believes that magic is real.
I used to be very mundane and unkind to think that this is another story of "This killer is not too cold". In the end, the little loli left, and the old man got a tragic ending... Later, I saw the same dilapidated hotel In the novel, the despairing clown who is about to hang himself, and the lonely ventriloquist who is about to become a talker, I also think this is a story about the loneliness and sorrow of artists in the disappearance of the conflict between traditional art and popular art and the electronic age. In fact, these are correct. With the development of the times, with the new ones, the old ones are bound to be eliminated. Nostalgia is the attitude of a small group of people, but the attitude of a small group of people cannot stop the development of new things. Alice is also "changing with each passing day". With new shoes, a noble coat, and a skirt like Snow White, she is no longer a little village girl standing on the street looking at others with envy, but a fashionable girl who is envied and looked up by others. , and for all this, the old gentleman magician went to work as a car repair shop worker, to be a window salesman, to be a wine salesman... and give these to Alice in the form of "magic", so that she will always be Believe that there is magic in the world. Seeing this, I am very angry, why should I protect the foolishness of a naive and naive woman? Why don't you tell her the laws of this world, it takes effort to get something.
The little girl turned into a big girl, and with a man of the same age she liked, the old magician secretly hid behind the promotional hanger and watched, and my heart became sour. This is an expected scene! Back at home, Paspas took the violent fat rabbit who had been with him in life and on stage, and put her back into the mountains. A man left that hotel, a language-barrier London. A note for Alice: There is no magic in the world. Alice muses twice in the film. The first time she throws away her old boots and decides to follow the old magician secretly. The second time she puts down the note and stands at the window watching the boy downstairs drenched in the rain. Carrying luggage, they used expensive coats to shield the boy and himself from the rain, and they left. I think at this time, Alice is no longer naive, there is no magic, there are no objects that can be changed, and when it rains, there is not even an umbrella. This boy may still need her to take care of, but the reality is That's it, she finally understood.
Old Paspas still kept going here and there on the train, and he would still make magic for the little girl he met on the road, but he would no longer give unrealistic hope to others. Maybe this is the story of two people, about meeting, about separation, about loneliness, about companionship, just like every story.
At the end of the film, there is a close-up of the picture of the old magician who often looks brooding or sighing - dedicated to the daughter of magician Tati - a little baby girl. Recalling every detail of every scene, my memory suddenly became clear, it turned out to be a father's love. When you were young, you thought he was omnipotent. Later, you had your own life and worldview. When someone else entered your life and he left, you realized that the world is not all beautiful, but you can only cover it up by yourself. Rain, innocence is no longer, go forward.
In the film, the old magician appeared in Paris, Ireland, and London... The old magician and Alice do not understand the language. The film's small and brief dialogue is a major feature. Perhaps this is also a nostalgia, expressing real emotions. And let others understand that language is not the only way, without language, the direct communication of emotions may be more sincere. A few years ago, the Oscar's best film "The Artist" was also a silent film, and it was still in black and white. To say that this nostalgic and classical film won the award is indeed worthy of its name. And "The Magician" also won the Best Animated Film Award at the European Film Festival and the Best Animated Film Award of the New York Film Critics Association.
There are still many stories behind this movie, fathers, daughters, family affection, eternal separation between heaven and man...etc. Those real and specific people and things should not be pursued anymore, but to experience common emotions, which is the film gift for everyone
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