A classic fairy tale. When I was a child, I remembered calling it "Candy House". The original story is that a witch in the forest abducts a child to fatten up and eats it. The younger sister and brother use their wisdom to burn the witch to death and escape.
Personally, I think that the remake of the 2020 version is too obscure on the theme of the story. Or, if you want to express too much, it hurts your head.
If you want to talk about simple opinions, involving spoilers, be careful.
The beginning of the story is a quiet village with plague and famine. The dying mother pointed out two ways for the heroine, JI woman or nun. The heroine is not willing to abandon her self-esteem and love to be a JI woman, but also because the brother with the oil bottle does not want to. Become a nun, and finally take her younger brother to find a new way out. In fact, it can be seen here that the female protagonist has her own sense of independence, pointing out that the social system is oppressed (famine and food is handed over to the church), she does not want to be arranged and directed, and she does not stand in line with evil (JI women) and kindness (nuns). ) Is in the middle gray area.
In detail, the heroine put on lipstick and wore a new dress in order to apply for the job, suggesting that the heroine's mentality is no longer a simple child, but a woman.
For the details, the mother asked the heroine to be a JI girl first, and then showed the way to be a nun, thinking very carefully.
The two brothers and sisters were looking for help from the widow who had been favored by their father (the mother had green on her head). They were attacked by a zombie-like weird man. They were rescued by a hunter. The hunter pointed out a way to make a living for the brother and sister, and went to Lin. As the secretary applied for a job, the younger brother gladly accepted to go, but the hostess still had an ambiguous attitude and did not make it clear.
The hunter teaches brothers and sisters that every cause will have results, and the choice between good and evil will determine your destiny.
Then came the key turning point of the story, when the sister and brother met the witch's candy house. In the plague and famine environment, there are no edible mushrooms on the ground, but there are people living in the deep forest, and the table is full of delicious food. Normal people will be jealous and skeptical. The hostess can also be regarded as IQ online, and she still maintains a rational and cautious attitude. Attitude. Here is a detail. The witch only pulled out his younger brother's hair to smell it, and also afterwards, she just salivated with her younger brother, but communicated with her elder sister in an equal manner, and did not treat her older sister as a child or prey.
During the candy house period, the hostess initially resisted, thinking that there was a problem with the candy house. The old woman never went out to buy and sell supplies. Where did the food come from? Although the younger brother Silly Baitian didn’t want to leave, he was still practicing cutting down trees to prepare for future forestry officer work; but as the heroine came to the aunt, it represented the appearance of female sexual characteristics, and the heroine had completely separated from the scope of children. Prompt that the heroine is not the prey of witches.
Details: The heroine found a secret door in the storage room. In fact, the witch deliberately let the heroine discover it. The witch is guiding the heroine into her world slowly.
Since then, the heroine began to learn herbal medicine, potion and chess with the witch. Although the heroine still remains curious and cautious, the relationship between the heroine and the witch is more like a master and disciple. The younger brother found the children's shoes hanging in the forest. She was afraid that when she wanted to leave, the hostess was unwilling to leave. She thought that the witch had taught her a lot of knowledge to make her strong.
After quarreling with his younger brother, the hostess pushed his younger brother out of the door, and then he disappeared. This also verifies what the heroine said at the beginning that you have to abandon some things to get others. The heroine can't become strong, because there is always this younger brother in her heart.
At this stage, combining the heroine’s dreams, monologues, and the fairy tale "The Little Girl in the Pink Hat" that the heroine told her brother before, the heroine is inherently different and can see what others can’t, but the mother does not let her Externally, letting her be an ordinary person, the heroine is unwilling to be mundane and mediocre in her heart, which is why she did not choose either side of the film. But the witch allowed the heroine to awaken the self-awareness that had been suppressed for many years.
Opening of Gretel's "Pink Hats" version: The blacksmiths gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (pink hats). The baby girl was sick. The blacksmith exchanged with the dark witch in order to save the baby girl. The baby girl gained health but lost her kindness. The grown-up pink hat killed the blacksmith. The villagers decided to send the pink hat back to the dark forest. They thought that all evil would end, but the pink hat was still tempting the children to go to the dark forest.
The witch recounted another version of "Pink Hats": The blacksmiths gave birth to a beautiful baby girl (pink hats), the baby girl was infected, and the blacksmith exchanged with the dark witch in order to save the baby girl. The baby girl gained health but lost her kindness. The pink hat killed the blacksmith, and the villagers decided to send the pink hat back to the dark forest. But the pink hat still followed his mother (that is, the blacksmith’s wife), tempting the blacksmith’s wife to try her evil power. Finally, the blacksmith’s wife couldn’t stand the temptation and ate her own child and became Wu Li Taotao’s witch. Since then, she has lived in the Black Forest and abducted children to eat.
The two versions of the story cannot be said to be true, because they are from the perspective of others, and there is no pink hat perspective.
In contrast, Gretel’s version is also the one circulating in the village. It is believed that the evil is the pink hat and blames the evil on the individual. This is also a common problem under the old social thinking of feudal tradition. A beautiful woman is not a good thing, even if she is a child.
The original version of the witch tells the audience that what is evil is greed. The mother was greedy for power and ate her child and turned into a witch.
Finally, the witch firewood was lit, the stove was set up, and she waited for the BBQ, but she didn't expect her apprentice Gretel to stop eating! (The reason was that my younger brother Hansel said at the beginning that Gretel is a vegetarian!)
In retrospect, the witch has been guiding the heroine from the very beginning, giving up (eating) her younger brother, and gaining witch power. However, the conscience of the heroine was not diminished, and using the power of the witch's teaching, she burned the witch and saved her brother. Why does the heroine have witch power? Gifted? NO NO NO, abandoning the younger brother does not mean eating him, letting him go to grow up alone is also a kind of abandonment. As I said in the opening monologue, the heroine has been unable to let her brother go, thinking that her brother is the only thing she owns in a poor life, and classifies her as possessions, with obsessions, but after experiencing all this, the heroine asks her brother to leave at the end Finding her own way means that the heroine has let go, has grown, and her heart has become stronger.
So in the end, the heroine gained a powerful witch power, but it was not evil, because the souls of children imprisoned by witches in the forest were liberated.
The hostess finally has a mysterious and mysterious saying "you will always have a part of me, brother.a part of myself that you have not taken.but that i have given to you gladly.it will go with you when you leave".
The subtitle group is directly translated without artistic conception. My personal interpretation after combining the whole film is as follows, "I will no longer have nothing because of losing you, you should also take my love to find your own way."
In this film, Gretel’s women are independent, and the siblings’ relationship to each other until they grow up is too obscure, and the texture of the picture is too dim, and it really hurts to see the brains.
Author PEAR, written on 2020.04.11 Beijing
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