There are so many film and television works adapted from Andersen's "Daughter of the Sea", it is estimated that this one is the most curious style of painting. The title of the siren-like siren set the quirky tone of the whole film.
Unlike the traditional mermaid story, where the simple and kind little mermaid falls in love with the prince and finally sacrifices for love and turns into a bubble, the role of the little mermaid in this film is set as a pair of mermaid sisters, referred to as Xiaojin Xiaoyin.
The plot of the story has also changed from the original aesthetic love to the setting of "Daughter of the Sea" + "Green Snake". The simple and kind-hearted sister Xiao Yin fell in love with humans, and the wild and untamable sister Xiao Jin like Xiao Qing.
The picture has changed from the past gorgeous romance to the feasting and feasting of bars and nightclubs. The mermaids with youthful and beautiful appearance have become charming singing girls in the extravagant night. Because of the genre of the song and dance film, many plots in the film are shown through song and dance, such as the two sisters' greed for the world, the cruelty of Xiao Yin's tail surgery, and the sweetness of Xiao Yin when he thinks he has a lover finally married...
In the past mermaid movies, the mermaid's tail was made as beautiful as possible. For example, in the earlier version of Zhong Liti's mermaid, the mermaid's graceful posture was shown through her swaying fish tail underwater. In Stephen Chow's "Mermaid", the old mermaid's tail that makes a huge wave is even more beautiful.
But in "Charming", two pretty mermaid sisters, the fish tails that Ge You showed when they were paralyzed, although not as short and cute as the dugongs that were rumored before, but the baby fish (or eels) are as gray as they are. The tail, it seems that the visual experience is more strange than beautiful? The beauty and ugliness are superimposed, and the visual impact is too great.
Because they are nostalgic for the hustle and bustle on the shore, the sisters seduced the band through singing, let humans take them ashore, and let them feel the prosperity of the world.
It seems that the lead singer of the band took them in and asked them to sing and dance together. They received all kinds of admiration in the bar, and they were also loved by customers because they changed the fishtail settings as they pleased.
But, can these laughter really satisfy them?
For the people in the bar, the mermaid sisters who are not very used to dressing are basically just a pair of beautiful works of art, like two inexperienced children. The rebellious Xiaojin learned to bargain, and when he didn't want to be a free laborer, he would get an answer from you as a child.
The human world is too complicated. Two mermaids who depend on each other have not learned to adapt well, so they can only find a moment of warm companionship.
Xiao Yin fell in love with the bass player, sacrificed her voice, and had a very dangerous Shi Nv operation, just wanting to keep her warm embrace for a moment. Even watching the other person marry another person, she held the other person to dance the last dance before dawn, with a happy smile on her face before disappearing.
The daylight appeared slowly, and Xiao Yin with light blond hair and a porcelain doll-like face was filled with a satisfied smile. The dark night scene before the film was swept away, and it became bright and dazzling.
At the end of the movie, Xiao Jin fell in love with Xiao Yin, went ashore with her, sang together, and danced together, but watched her attention day after day only attracted by the bass player, and she could only be alone.
She learned to smoke, have sex with girls, hook up with men, show her fangs to show animalism and cannibalism, and then climb into the sea to take a bath, just because in the rebellious period, she didn't know how to relieve her desires. Indulgence of carnal pleasure is the easiest but the most difficult to control. Just like the female protagonist who awakens during adolescence in "Raw Eating", it is easy to release the cannibalistic instinct, but it is difficult to restrain the nature and learn to be rational.
What's so good about the human world? Why must we stay behind? In "Green Snake", White Snake just wants to learn to be a human being. Xiaoqing misses the five-hundred-year sisterhood. For White Snake, she is still too lonely. After experiencing birth, old age, sickness and death, perhaps the xinxing will not be so cold.
But for the mermaid sisters of "Charm", it may be because the sea is too cold and lonely. The noise in the world, even the dim lights in the dark bar, seems to have warmth.
Following Xiao Jin’s perspective, the audience seems to have entered the depths of the sea together. There is no imaginary magnificence and romance. The long shots under the deep blue sea, dangling seaweed, and fish that can’t talk, are enough to see people. Fear of going out of the deep sea.
I have seen a picture of underwater creatures. The more you go down to the sea, the more terrifying the animal's appearance will be due to the pressure of the water, and the deeper the sea, the less creatures there will be.
The little gold and silver in the film are drifting on the bottomless and dark seabed, and they are lonely and lonely if they want to come. Leaning out of the sea, the enchanting singing voice, the dialogue from another world, are like a distant call, allowing them to get a bit of warmth.
However, I have to say that although there are many singing and dancing scenes in the film, the plot trend in the middle is too mysterious. The characters appear and disappear inexplicably. I don't know the meaning of the setting. Even the setting of Xiaojin Xiaoyin's change of legs is in Changes in the same movie.
Although the style of painting is detached from vulgarity, the ending still returns to tradition. Even if it is covered with the shell of "Green Snake", it has not dug out any deeper content. It cannot be said that it is a pity.
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