The whole movie is like an opera filmed in a real scene, because people are using a cappella way to speak their dialogue, although it is obviously a post-dubbing, it still casts an elegant and dreamy color on the film. Let me remind people at the beginning to be a child, to believe unreservedly in the beauty of the movie. He had this intention, but he shot fairy tales for adults. Compared with Disney, Cocteau is too clever.
Father entered the castle for the first time. The scenery and lighting are extremely stylized, and the fantasy atmosphere is carefully designed. The faces on the wall, the hands on the table, and the secret soundtrack pave the way for the first appearance of the beast.
Bella came to the castle and everything was set for her. The dancing curtains, the candlesticks held up by human hands, the automatic opening of the talking people, and the quilt slipping off the bed all surprised her. But more, these things seem to be a projection of her heart, suggesting the irrationality of the environment she will enter.
In the constant getting along, the relationship between Bella and the beast gradually progressed, and the so-called relationship is nothing but a weak dependence and a helpless choice, because there are only two of them in the entire environment, and there is no frame of reference to contact the outside world. There is no so-called "relationship" among people.
Next, everyone knows that Bella will fall in love with the beast. She had previously rejected a man's proposal and told him that she would be a girl forever and accompany her father. The two seem to be contradictory. The man represents frivolity and pretentiousness to a certain extent, while the beast represents innocence and beauty—but is this really what the story tells us? Is there no room for compromise between the two? Must it be either or the other? Don't forget that the beast sits on the castle, has wealth and magic, and that kid is far away. The only shortcoming of the beast is its old and ugly appearance, so the story erases this. Who of them is sincere? Or are both of them sincere? Are neither of them sincere? The film does not give an answer, but embeds the scenes and characters in the formatted picture, let us discover the inner: in love, the vanity of women, and the vanity of people often follow the call of the self's inner subconscious and rise to the surface consciousness. At that time, they repeatedly considered and weighed the pros and cons. Of course this is not the purpose of letting. He also made Bella's choice much simpler, in order to highlight his theme, and then achieve the purpose of discussing humanity and animality.
Both Bella and the Beast try to confirm a certain relationship through marriage, and find their place by forming a relationship. Bella is inseparable from her father, patriarchal confines her, and even things like love cannot liberate her; the beast cannot do without the castle, perhaps because he cannot face the strange vision of the outside world. He longs for "adults" in his heart. ". As a result, the two tried to get rid of their mental youth through the adult game of "marriage". I don't say "childhood" because both are typified people who have no childhood, and they have no childhood to be ended. Bella is almost the same as the maid at home in the absence of her father and the suppression of her sister; the beast is pampered, but has never received decent respect, respect from a "person", everything about him is a manifestation of human nature. Therefore, at this point, we can see that there is actually no such thing as "love" that people outside of the two people resonate. It is rather that they share a similar dilemma: they must choose a Humane” approach to make his strange behavior reasonable and credible. For example, in the confrontation between human nature and animal nature, wild beasts have appeared in Bella’s room more than once and come uninvited, while Bella appears angry, confused, and helpless. This is an unreasonable invasion of human nature by beasts, and even more alienation of humans into beasts. Characterization. Violent men invade women's private space in an unacceptable way, whether externally or internally, it must mean something.
So, in order to make all this look complete, a phantom called love appeared. Routine began to move closer to Disney. Americans want to use love, claim that love solves everything, and secretly use ideology to separate people. Cocteau just kept trying to distinguish between the truth and the lie. Later, he pessimistically discovered that the two may be the same thing, such as the love in this film. Young people use language, and beasts use appearances. Different degrees and destinations are deceiving Bella. When the young man proposed, when the beast gave Bella the golden key, their expressions all looked flattering and suspicious. When you look back at Bella, her eyes are high and low, accepting or not accepting it becomes a mystery. The theme and intention of the film have become confusing and confusing. The soundtrack accentuates this sentiment.
Some people think that the beast symbolizes the trauma caused by the Second World War. The film was taken in 1946. But I think that even if this is possible, Cocteau, as a generalist of modernism and avant-garde art, can find other better ways to express such simple themes. And his films have always been known for the ambiguity of themes and the richness of content, such as the "Orpheus" trilogy and "The Poet's Blood".
The mirror that Baima brought was very interesting. Bella's sister directly said "a mirror, suggesting a girl who broke her promise." Later when they looked in the mirror by themselves, one became an old woman and the other became a monkey.
In the same scene, two young men broke into the castle and saw the treasure. The treasure was guarded by the statue of the moon goddess Diana. She pulled a bow without strings, and the young man who shot the treasure turned him into one. A beast, I have to say that the association of this segment is really surprising: quoting the story of Artemis turning Actaeon into a stag in Ovid's "The Metamorphosis" is extremely appropriate and rich in meaning here.
Then, the beast became a prince and resurrected. He stood up from the ground in a circus acrobatic manner, and Gukdo made people see what they wanted to see and heard what they wanted to hear. "Love can turn a person into a beast, or an ugly person into handsome." Ironically, the face of the prince was the face of the young man who had bowed to Bella before and was shot. Bella accepted him at this time. He promised Bella that the two happily left and went to the prince's country, but the way was to ascend upward, and a layer of illusory metaphors could be read (if they left on horseback, it would be more credible).
Under the guidance of soft light, we have come to a happy ending, but we don’t know whether this is a complete drama, an extension of a vicious fairy tale, or just a dream in the mind of the beauty Bella. ?
After a burst of smoke rose, I seemed to be able to see Cocteau’s lightly spitting out the smoke. The person who heard him finish this story in a cafe on the left bank of the Seine was like falling into the fog, and there was a vague smile on his mouth.
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