contradiction

Breanna 2022-01-11 08:02:49

Vincent, a teenager who lives in his own fantasy world, is only seven years old. He is the horror actor in the dream, a zombie dog slave, a beautiful wife, and a skeleton calling him in the fog; the teachings of his mother, the expectations of his relatives, and the reality fetters him. Where is his home? He fell into madness and despair, and fear came like a tide, and grabbed him fiercely. Finally, in the midst of the contradiction, Vincent chanted Poe's verses and died.
"Never again..."
Vincent is dead. This is carefully designed by Tim Burton. He has been sick for many years, isolated from the world, weak and pale, coupled with inner fear and exhausted, his death is inevitable. of. And what caused his death? We can't help thinking. The child is well-behaved and obedient, but he yearns for Poe-like horror in his heart, with silence that does not belong to his age. Therefore, Vincent's character is more autistic and more extreme. It seems to be the shackles of reality and the closed contradictions that are immersed in the self-world and cannot be extricated. It tells the tragedy of a secondary autistic teenager; but careful analysis: he is more like Tim Burton’s autobiography. Indeed, Burton He was good at this since he was a child, but the adult world contained him and caused his childhood isolation and loneliness. Later, when he lived at his grandfather's house, the director's genius was not stifled. I think Vincent's "autism" is not necessarily born with him. It is precisely the blind containment and incomprehension of his relatives that kept him closed... It is the "shell" of the outside world that drives this boy to death step by step.
His death is more representative of the death of fantasy, the death of innocence, because in reality it is impossible for children to die like this. In fact, every child may have their own neverland. With the pace of growth and the depression of the adult world, they will eventually bid farewell to Neverland. Unless you keep your childish innocence forever, the never homeland strangled by reality will never be found again.
Digging into its essence, what Tim Burton discussed with us is ultimately the contradiction between children's innocence and reality.
(It's all our humble opinion, please forgive me.)

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Vincent quotes

  • Narrator: Vincent Malloy is seven years old, / He's always polite and does what he's told. / For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, / But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. / He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cats, / Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats. / There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented, / And wander dark hallways alone and tormented. / Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, / But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. / He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie, / In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. / So he and his horrible zombie dog, / Could go searching for victims in the London fog. / His thoughts though aren't only of ghoulish crime, / He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time. / While other kids read books like Go Jane Go, / Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe. / One night while reading a gruesome tale, / He read a passage that made him turn pale. / Such horrible news he could not survive, / For his beautiful wife had been buried alive. / He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, / Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed. / His mother sent Vincent off to his room, / He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom. / Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life, / Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife. / While alone and insane, encased in his tomb, / Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room. / She said, "If you want to you can go out and play. / It's sunny outside and a beautiful day." / Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak, / The years of isolation had made him quite weak. / So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen, / "I am possessed by this house and can never leave it again." / His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. / These games that you play are all in your head. / You're not Vincent Price you're Vincent Malloy. / You're not tormented or insane you're just a young boy. / "You're seven years old and you are my son. / I want you to get outside and have some real fun." / Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall, / And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall. / The room started to sway, to shiver and creak. / His horrid insanity had reached its peak. / He saw Abercrombie his zombie slave, / And heard his wife call from beyond the grave. / She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands. / While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands. / Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams, / Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams. / To escape the madness he reached for the door, / But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor. / His voice was soft and very slow, / As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe, / "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, / Shall be lifted - Nevermore!"

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