Thanks to those fairy tale books whose covers were ripped out of my childhood, I can almost feel familiar with the stories in this story: the flea on the king, the queen who yearns for a child, the wizard who always appears when he should, for vanity And the younger sister who changed skins, the magic of knowing each other's status through the metamorphosis of an object, and so on. It's just that the books at that time won't tell you the source or even the author in detail, only a hodgepodge of mixes for you to choose. There are always similarities in many stories. In the memories, blood is dripping with corpses everywhere. People are still shocked in the first second and turned into stubborn stones in the second. This is an era full of fantasy and imagination, beyond the rigor and old-fashionedness of physics and medicine, and beyond the gorgeous are hearts that are too obsessed and too wounded.
"Story within a Story" tells the tragedy of a pair of brothers, a pair of sisters, and a couple: half-brothers are unable to stay with each other because of the queen's stubbornness, a pair of sisters abandon each other because of a king's lust, one A couple is forced to fight to the death because of the king's jokes. In the magnificent and strong magical country, people abide by the religious laws and place their hopes on superstitions. Tragedy is often caused by the inequality of social status brought about by the huge gap between the rich and the poor. The stories within the three stories actually illustrate a truth: they are not a family, and they do not enter a family. The family here is a traditional Chinese proverb - the right match, otherwise it will not only be a tragedy, but also a joke.
The three stories are interspersed with each other and the progress is the same, and finally let everyone have a cordial meeting. Although they are together, they still make people feel the magic of fate.
Although the queen's deep-rooted prejudice of class status made the two brothers unable to recognize each other or even accompany each other, the boy who could have been on the throne and changed all of this also burned all his passion and let his brother go, while he continued to be a dazzling Court life. Although it is empty, it is his familiar environment, familiar taste, familiar rules, and familiar conspiracy.
The story of the two sisters can be regarded as a legend. The lustful king looked at the figure of the old woman from a distance because of the singing. He thought it was a young girl, and hurriedly came to court for love. The wisdom of the two old women was worth two-thirds of Zhuge Liang, so There was the act of trying to pull the sagging skin of the body into a young girl, but the king's eyes were sharp, and a candle could see through everything (I'm really curious that he didn't know during the process, that the vomiting The action is quite meaningful). The older sister who was thrown out of the castle drank the witch's milk in a coma, turned into a girl, and returned to the king's arms.
The two sisters, driven by vanity, were thrown from high altitudes, and the other was skinned. Youth and beauty leave people with skins, and those who are tortured by it cannot see the false appearance of emptiness. The two sisters originally loved each other and helped each other, but after encountering the lustful king, they hurt each other and became delirious. They blindly demanded of themselves with such a dull male mind, and eventually brought about their own demise.
And the last couple is actually a very sad love story. The daughter was forced to marry a strange person who didn't love because of a joke from her father. The strange person's domineering and forbearing love can only make her resentment increase day by day, seeing him hurt again and again After forgiving her again and again, she couldn't help feeling a little sad when her head was cut off by her, and wanted to tell him, "Actually, she doesn't like you that much", but unfortunately it was too late.
The more ordinary Italian fantasy films are far less exciting than the segmented horror films of the 1960s and 1970s. But the sophisticated costumes and the perfect set are definitely worth watching. The half-naked girl in the woods is the most beautiful scene in the whole film.
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