What is the paradigm of fairy tales?
The dragon captured the princess, and the prince killed the dragon through all kinds of hardships. From then on, the princess and the prince lived happily together.
"The Witch" is also living together happily, but happiness and happiness are always separated by a layer.
We seem to have ten thousand ways to make the protagonists happier.
But fortunately, the movie did not do that.
1. Give up fantasy and accept reality.
Fairy tales give children a lot of fantasy. People can be blown up if they are crushed. People can be resurrected when they die. They can go to another world through the closet. The boundless imagination enriches children's childhood and promotes children. Growth.
However, if children should be able to learn from this film, the first is that past experiences cannot be changed.
Turned into a mouse by witchcraft, sometimes can be changed back, such as "The Nutcracker", such as "Alice in Wonderland", such as "The Chronicles of Narnia".
But sometimes it doesn't change back, such as "The Witch". In fact, in life, more often than not, it can't be changed back.
When it doesn't change back, we have to accept it.
What's more enlightening about the movie is that it does not encourage us to accept passively, but shows us that we face actively and even make efforts to avoid more people from suffering. This is too effective for the notion of "pushing one's back when you die" that appears in the context from time to time.
2. They don't love you, but don't worry, you can still live well.
Usually people don't pay much attention to Bruno, the British fat boy. When he first appeared, I mistakenly thought that he would be as annoying as the gluttonous fat boy in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", but in fact he didn't.
When Bruno appeared, he was disgusted by his mother. He thought he could not stop eating and he couldn't wear his clothes.
Bruno's parents do not love Bruno, so much so that Bruno is their son, it is better to say that they regard Bruno as a burden. Bruno's parents were always angry, anxious, and disgusted when they were with Bruno, but when Bruno's parents were sitting in the hotel lobby reading the newspaper and drinking tea, they were leisurely and elegant.
They don’t love Bruno. When Bruno can’t meet their expectations, they will be furious, so they can’t accept Bruno’s dirty, even though it’s mostly the parents' responsibility that a seven-year-old child is dirty, so they can’t accept it. The fact that Bruno became a rat.
This reflects a theme that cannot be used as the theme of the movie: some parents do not love their children.
We have watched too many films promoting fatherly love, motherly love, and family relations, which makes us mistakenly believe that all parents love children. This is contrary to the facts. Do you know the result of the contradiction?
Those children who are not loved by their parents spend their entire lives wondering if they are worthy of being loved, and thinking about what they have done wrong all their lives.
All parents love their children, but why don’t my parents love me? No, it's not that they don't love me, it's that I did something wrong, or that I didn't understand their love.
Oh, yes, some parents will use their love to be severe to cover up their tyranny.
We need to be told that fatherly love and maternal love are great, and we also need to be told that not all parents love children. That is the problem of the parents, not the children.
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