The story takes place in the late 1950s, just as young people’s rock music swept the show, Paspas, an old French magician gradually lost the audience, and his livelihood was unsustainable. He brought props and a bunny to London to try his luck, but there was still no audience until he came to a remote town in the Scottish Highlands by chance. Residents of small towns with sparse entertainment warmly welcome the arrival of the magician, and it is here that Paspers meets the last audience in his life, the orphan girl Alice. Alice believes that magic is true, and that magicians can conjure anything she wants. When Paspas left the town, Alice looked at him and got on the boat. In Edinburgh, they lived in the most basic and shabby hotel, and they lived with poor entertainers. The magician barely makes a living by performing, but Alice falls in love with the beautiful dress and shoes in the glass window, and asks the magician to change it to her. The magician who can’t speak English tried various humble jobs during the time of the show, and bought all the things she likes for Alice-but always changed to her in the form of magic, and never pierced her belief. Magic dream. And his reward is Alice's happy smile and sweet kiss. The magician is very satisfied, although sometimes, he will look at a picture frustrated. Until one day, the magician found that Alice was missing, and went crazy looking for her, and finally ran into her walking hand in hand with a handsome boy. Paspas understands that the girl has found someone she depends on. So, he left the money to the girl, and a note: The magician does not exist, just like this "disappeared" like magic. At the end of the movie, the photo that always made the magician sad is finally clearly placed in front of the audience: a little baby girl, the magician's unaware daughter. All the stories originate from the magician's unfinished love for his daughter. If there is any great magic in the movie, it is this love.
Paspas’s magic is really too old-fashioned. Pulling rabbits from the hat, cards from the sleeves, and wine from the handkerchiefs, it’s no wonder that every time the audience can’t lift their energy. These magic performances made him ridiculed, and the indifference of the audience made him deeply disappointed. But Alice believed in his magic, and he never let her down. In order to buy what she likes and make her eat better, he goes to work as a car wash in the middle of the night, "changes" merchandise promotion in the window of Janice Mall, and "changes" alcohol to advertise in the whisky hotel... …His "magic" is a pair of little red shoes under Alice's feet, then a noble white coat, a beautiful blue skirt, a pair of white high heels, but not just clothes; from little red shoes to white high heels, yes Alice changed from a "girl" to a "woman", from an inferior country boy to an elegant and confident city woman "miracle". No matter how difficult their environment is, the down-and-coming entertainers in the hotel were depressed in poverty, drunk, and even desperate to decadent sitting on the street begging, hanging suicide, but because the little girl believed in the magic and fantasy, Paspas insisted The love for girls has never let them sink into depression, but keep warm and create a miracle of girls' growth. When a girl turns into a woman, when a girl finds love, Paspas doesn't do magic anymore. He puts the little bunny on the Lion King Mountain and just walks on his way, because he has done the greatest magic of his life.
This story that happened in Edinburgh was also courtesy of Edinburgh. As the opening film of the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival, the film was staged in the festival theatre where opera and ballet are performed on weekdays. Director Sylvain Chomet had lived in Edinburgh for five years. This time he returned with a movie dedicated to the city. He said, "This is the best place on earth." You can see his affection in every scene of the movie, especially those who have lived here will understand those details: when the thin raindrops, thick clouds swiftly across the top of the head, there is a golden strip on the grass in front of them. Light floating past, seagulls and pigeons in the rain, looking north on Prince Street, seeing the shining ocean and hillsides in the distance, people reading in the park under the castle... The wandering artists in this city are still living today. Day after day, various tricks are performed in the streets, run-down bars, and small theaters. In the Janice Mall, the window where Paspas performed magic promotion in the movie has been replaced with a film festival poster these days. Movies and reality are not so easy to distinguish clearly. Not only are many scenes in the movies real, not only are the melodious bagpipes in the movie and the bagpipes in the city connected together, but more importantly, there is a kind of unclearness contained in the movie paintings. The touch, breath, heartbeat and body fragrance of Edinburgh.
I seldom retell a lot of stories in the comments, but today I do it unknowingly. The movie itself is very beautiful and simple, and it is useless to try to retell or evaluate it. All I suggest, a child who has been loved by his parents, a person who can understand, go to see this movie in person, all the touches will be clear to his heart. June 20th is Father’s Day in the UK. I want to say, before your parents disappear like magic, let’s love them.
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