I have always liked this kind of children's movies. Unlike China, there are very good directors in the West who are willing to make such films, and there are very good actors in these films, but the key is that these films can be viewed from the perspective of children's equality. Throwing away the self-righteous adult hypocrisy, it is easy to see wisdom, courage, and love in children that are worth pursuing in our lifetime. In Chinese-style children’s movies, most of them take the process of correcting their own shortcomings and tell us the truth about being human. This kind of condescending and educational movies leads to children who never choose this kind of movies when they have a little rationality and self-esteem. .
I like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Arthur and the Mini Ink Kingdom. Phoebe's Dreamwalking Wonderland is different. From the beginning of the film, it tells us all the disappointments of 7-year-old Phoebe in school life. Later, I saw the conflicts between this wonderland and reality, and used a very realistic technique to depict the wonderland in the eyes of a child.
There are no bad guys in the strict sense, no monsters, and no evil in the film. Because there is no need for monsters, no evil, and life alone is enough to make people feel pain, boredom, and even fear.
In the film, the protagonist Phoebe is a 7-year-old girl, her parents are scholars, and her mother is writing a paper on "Alice in Wonderland". Phoebe has a 5-year-old sister. Phoebe likes poetry, Mozart, and all kinds of wonderland gadgets that his mother puts at home.
Naturally, such a smart girl is inevitably a little sensitive, so Phoebe is not popular in school, especially her occasional uncontrollable behavior has caused disgust from many classmates. If the film was filmed by a Chinese director, the plot that Phoebe’s academic performance is not ideal will be added, but since the film was filmed in the United States, I don’t know what Phoebe’s academic performance is. The importance of academic performance In Hollywood films, there is no Chinese film in the original.
There are two types of films in China. In the early movies, most of them were through the creation of a very dedicated teacher and some more naughty students, and most of them were through the teacher's dedication to finally move the students to the right path. There are obvious standards of student quality in this type of film. The protagonist of the students is mixed, the good is excellent, the learning is good, and the appearance is usually not the best in the class but it is also very good. Actively participating in group activities is to help teachers save poor students. Important vitality. The so-called bad students are more mischievous because they have poor grades, not bad morals. The main line of the film is to make students with poor grades get good grades, to help withdrawn students to increase their affinity, and to improve class group cohesion through activities. (Flower season
and rainy season) Then the subject matter is another less dedicated teacher and less serious student. Teachers are not very dedicated because they are relatively young, but they are usually more fashionable and have a better relationship with students. In the end, everyone worked hard together, the teacher's recognition, and the classmates' grades were also improved. There are relatively more so-called student scenes with poor grades in this kind of film. (Eighteen-year-old sky)
This Phoebe Dreamwalking Wonderland has obviously been out of the theme of improving grades, an inspirational film for American teenagers in the 1980s. In the film, Phoebe has some abnormal behaviors relative to other children. Phoebe, who was regarded as uncontrollable by other teachers, was recognized by the drama teacher and was allowed to play the role of Alice, and he played extremely well in the role (Fan Ning was really good). Phoebe's indulge in wonderland during the rest of the time caused his parents to worry, and at the same time it more clearly exposed the tension between Phoebe's parents. The movie has been describing the relationship between Phoebe's parents. It also implies that the so-called abnormal situation of Phoebe is inseparable from the emotional discord between the parents in the family. Because Phoebe's mother is writing about Alice in Wonderland, Phoebe subconsciously hopes to gain that lost mother's love and family warmth by playing Alice.
It was later confirmed that Phoebe had congenital obsessive-compulsive disorder. When Phoebe told other students, the students expressed their understanding with curious questions. When Phoebe told his classmates, Phoebe smiled, and Phoebe was very calm. To this fact. The performance of Alice in Wonderland at the end was not at the expense of Phoebe's changes to herself. The success of Phoebe's performance lies in the understanding of his own shortcomings, not the change of his own shortcomings. This point is clearly stated in the words of the drama teacher: "There will be a day in the future, maybe a day in the future, you will open your eyes and see who you are, especially the reason why you are so different. Everything about other ordinary people. You would say to yourself, "But I am such a person! ""
Although the director's description is plain, it doesn't have the enthusiasm of unstoppable swearing in general inspirational films, but it is obviously closer to reality, and this sense of reality is more empathetic.
When the defects we face are our own lifetime defects and cannot be changed no matter how hard we try, how do we face the facts, identify with a defective self, and still not give up the pursuit of dreams?
Now I am still in college, and I am full of expectations for the future that I feel unrealistic. I understand that when I was in my 30s and 40s, the biggest possibility was an ordinary job as an author in an ordinary company. Maybe you barely have a car, and the house should still be paying the mortgage. I just hope that when I meet my former friends, facing people who have lived together but who have already grown up, I can praise them and at the same time not feel ashamed of my ordinaryness, and can calmly say to myself: "I am such a person."
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