beautiful is too beautiful

Jerrell 2022-09-17 20:46:04

The color graphics are all beautiful, and the characters are designed to look like Barbie dolls. But to be honest, the plot is a bit cliché, it's an out-and-out fairy tale, to the point where it's not suitable for adults to watch. The most climax is not the last scene where Lizzy braves the rain to fly to London to save the fairy, but the scene when Tinker Bell is trapped in the hut and sees a wall full of butterfly specimens.

Because it seems to me that Lizzy's father would not have been moved by his daughter's simple words when he was in a hurry to catch up with the conference that affected his future, and gave up the opportunity to share this important discovery with academia. Science, means research, means rationality, combined with the characters in the film, it even means fame and fortune, getting rid of poverty, and staying away from his leaky house.

From this point of view, the ending of the story is obviously too hasty and childish. However, if you really only watch this movie with the mind of a child, it is still worth watching. Unity, mutual assistance, and pure dreams are all good wishes we should give our children. But the premise is that you can't think rationally when the child grows up, this kind of imagination is similar to deception.

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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue quotes

  • Dr. Griffiths: [as Lizzy is hovering] I - I don't understand.

    Lizzy: You don't have to understand. You just have to believe.

  • Dr. Griffiths: [Lizzy has unintentionally trashed her room after her first flying attempt] Look at this room! It looks like a cyclone hit it!

    Lizzy: It's not that bad.

    Dr. Griffiths: Not that bad? Your books are all over the floor, your toys are everywhere, and you've torn your curtains!

    [looks up]

    Dr. Griffiths: What? HOW did you get FOOTPRINTS on the CEILING?

    [exasperatedly]

    Dr. Griffiths: This is simply too much. A temper tantrum of this magnitude is unacceptable.

    Lizzy: But I wasn't having a tantrum!

    Dr. Griffiths: Then how did this happen? And the TRUTH this time.

    Lizzy: [nervously] If I tell you the truth...

    [sighs]

    Lizzy: you still wouldn't believe me!

    Dr. Griffiths: [sternly] Elizabeth, the truth.

    Lizzy: ...I was flying! My fairy showed me how.

    Dr. Griffiths: Oh, for goodness sakes! Your make-believe fairy did this. You've got to stop this nonsense!

    Lizzy: But it's not nonsense, Father! It's the truth!

    Dr. Griffiths: You have a real fairy, living in your room.

    Lizzy: Yes! And I can prove it.

    [picks up the fairy field journal she and Tinker Bell made and holds it out for her father]

    Lizzy: Just look at the research we did.

    Dr. Griffiths: [takes the field journal and flips through a few pages] Oh, Elizabeth, *this* is what you've been doing?

    [closes the journal]

    Dr. Griffiths: Field journals are to be filled with FACT, not fairy tales!

    Lizzy: [desperately] But Father, these ARE facts!

    Dr. Griffiths: I just don't understand this foolishness, Lizzy. You have such talent. Why would you waste it this way?

    Lizzy: [visibly hurt and shocked by her father's words] Why can't you just...

    [sighs]

    Lizzy: *believe* me?

    Dr. Griffiths: I believe in what is real. And it's about time *you* started doing the same.

    [goes to her wall of fairy art and starts tearing it down]

    Lizzy: [fighting back tears] Father, wait!

    Dr. Griffiths: I know this is difficult for you to understand. But... this... is all make-believe!

    [throws some of Lizzy's pictures into the trash]

    Lizzy: No! They're real!

    Dr. Griffiths: Elizabeth! This discussion is over!

    [throws away the fairy field journal]