A child who lacks nothing can imagine

Donna 2022-04-23 07:03:43

It feels more like an ideal and realistic movie. Although the final ending is too "beautiful" and cliché and abrupt, the innocence and beauty of the little princess is still worth watching. For me, the dialogue between the principal and the little princess in the attic is the highlight of the movie, "Didn't your father tell you?" I really can't analyze the principal's acting skills. ”, presumably the principal also encountered a lot of real hardships, only to be jealous and confrontation with such a naive child. From the beginning to the end, I don't think the principal is a bad person. I think the principal is more like a kind of person. They also envy and yearn to be cared for and pampered by the little princess, and receive the same education as the little princess. They are carefree and full of fantastic fantasies. . However, the reality is not so lucky for her, and becoming realistic and "rules" is the final outcome. In addition, the reason why the principal is not a bad person is because after going through real hardships, she still has the heart to help her people and take in the little princess who has nothing. And the "master and servant can't speak" and other "rules" that she insists on are just the reality that she herself cannot overcome.

It is invaluable to maintain innocence and hope after experiencing reality. Just like the little princess who has experienced countless hardships, others ask her: "Are you still a princess?" There is a silence in the film. When the Negro Maid (with a bad memory, excuse me) begged her to tell her story, she also seemed to start not believing in the imagination, it was all fake and meaningless. Why the little princess is more fortunate than the principal is because when she was down and in trouble, a little boy from outside helped her and gave her a coin. inner belief.

I am a negative person. If in the end, it wasn't her father who woke up in the battlefield, and if the old man next door was not kind enough, would the ending be different? The realist represented by the principal is the one who comes to the end. .

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A Little Princess quotes

  • Miss Minchin: [after ordering the girls out and punishing Becky, to Sara] And you will perform all her chores in addition to your own without breakfast, lunch, OR dinner! It's time you learn, Sara Crewe, that real life has nothing to do with your little fantasy games. It's a cruel, nasty world out there, and it's our duty to make the best of it - not to indulge in ridiculous *dreams*, but to be productive and useful! Do you understand what I'm saying?

    Sara Crewe: [short pause] Yes, ma'am.

    Miss Minchin: [short pause] Good.

    [she leaves]

    Sara Crewe: But I don't believe in it.

    [Miss Minchin stops, turns back to Sara, and goes awestruck]

    Miss Minchin: Don't tell me you still fancy yourself a princess!

    [laughs]

    Miss Minchin: Good God, child, look around you! Or better yet, look in the mirror!

    [after a long pause]

    Sara Crewe: [confidently] I am a princess.

    Miss Minchin: [in disbelief] Oh!

    Sara Crewe: All girls are! Even if they live in tiny old attics, even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young, they're still princesses - all of us! Didn't your father ever tell you that? Didn't he?

    Miss Minchin: [furiously, in tears] If I find you up here with any of the girls again, I WILL THROW YOU OUT INTO THE STREET!

  • Sara Crewe: Papa? Maya told me that all girls are princesses.

    Capt. Crewe: Maya... is a very wise woman.

    Sara Crewe: Then it's true?

    Capt. Crewe: You can be anything you want to be, my love, as long as you believe.

    Sara Crewe: What do you believe?

    Capt. Crewe: I believe that you are... and always will be... my little princess.