This is a fairy tale, but also a kind of subversion.
What is a monster?
When I finished watching "Shrek", I couldn't calm down in a chair for a long time.
This is a fairy tale, but also a kind of subversion.
When we talk about monsters, what do we think of first? If I was a childhood, I would first think of the monsters in Ultraman. Whenever a monster appeared, people would either be frightened and flee for their lives, or hide somewhere to pray silently, or bravely step forward to fight against it.
Monsters are scary, what ordinary people can't fight, maybe they are evil.
Of course, in the current diversified society, the monster is not a single definition. It can be kind, charismatic, or even cute. Everything depends on everyone's imagination .
But in 2001, that era, "Shrek" may be just a kind of subversion, a subversion of ordinary people's perception of monsters.
A lot of what is shown at the beginning of the film is exactly the common perception of monsters in that era. Bathing in mud, eating inexplicable eyeballs and slug-like bugs, and putting a fart in the pool can poison the fish in the water. . The above embodies the monster that everyone knew at that time.
Then, the people from the village near the swamp, holding torches and various weapons, wanted to drive or kill Shrek but were completely suppressed by Shrek. Just a roar made these people frighten their farts. This reflects two things. On the one hand, one is the power of monsters, the above-mentioned irresistibility of ordinary people, and the other is that Shrek just scared them away, but did not do any substantial harm, that is, from here, the existence of Shrek. Begin to subvert the public perception, from substitution to subversion .
On the monster Shrek, there are identification points that we know, which is convenient for us to accept, but it also gives out those we don't know.
Shrek’s journey started from passively saving a talking donkey. Let’s leave the matter aside for the time being. Let’s continue on Shrek’s journey. As usual, he returned to his home in the swamp, um, but this time It's slightly different, because behind him is a donkey with a cheap mouth, which can't be driven away no matter what, he is no longer alone .
The sun faded and the night gradually entered. When Shrek came back to his senses, countless fairy-tale creatures had already been entrenched around his home, and the swamp was no longer clean.
Feeling helpless, he took the cheap-mouthed donkey with the cheers of a group of fairy tale creatures and embarked on the way to King Fugua’s castle.
The journey can be said to be peaceful, but there is a donkey with a cheap mouth. This journey must be interesting, angry and helpless.
At the same time, King Fogua also learned from the magic mirror that if he wants to become a king, he must first marry a real princess.
But what is interesting is that he neither chose Cinderella No. 1 nor Snow White No. 2, but chose Princess Fiona, No. 3 we don't know. All of this was determined by the instigation of his men. However, he did not know that Princess Fiona was cursed by a witch when she was a child, and the words that the Mirror hadn't finished were also flooded. In the sound of his "quiet".
Next, King Fugua launched a game to choose a knight to go to the castle guarded by the fire dragon to rescue the princess.
And Shrek and the donkey who happened to come here dramatically defeated all the knights, and he reached a princess and marsh agreement with King Fugua, and embarked on a journey to the castle to save the princess.
The interesting part of the story starts here. For the first time, we discovered that the story seems to be the same . The prince went to the castle and saved the princess, and the two people lived happily together.
But in this story, everything seems so different. Prince Charming is no longer Prince Charming . It is a monster Shrek with a talking donkey. Of course, the story is as we expected, Shrek successfully rescued Under the princess.
At this time, Princess Fiona, she represents some of our traditional cognition, she is just like us, familiar with the so-called princess story, in her fantasy, there will be a prince riding a white horse, romantic Rescue her and give her a true love kiss, and take her out of the curse.
But the reality is that Prince Charming has become Shrek, and Shrek came here only because he wanted to return to his swamp.
In the words of Princess Fiona: "No, it's all wrong."
The following us, just like Princess Fiona, slowly opened the shackles of our soul. It can be said that Princess Fiona is, in a sense, an incarnation of our existing spirit.
Love is not love at first sight and love at first sight. It is to know each other, live together, experience together, and create together.
When Princess Fiona hid in the cave when the sun set due to the curse of the witch, she overheard Shrek’s gradually opening her closed heart and said to the donkey: "It’s not that I am dissatisfied with this world, okay? The world is dissatisfied with me. People see me and run away: Ah! Help! Run! An ugly and stupid monster. They came to a conclusion without understanding me. "
Is this Princess Fiona, is it us?
When we meet an ugly and stupid monster, will we scream in our minds before we know him and come to a conclusion, but obviously, this is wrong.
Shrek finally said: "So I'd better live alone."
It is here that we finally learned that although he lives alone, he is not by nature like this. It is just because of the reasons he mentioned above. Under his repulsive behavior, some are lonely. Inwardly .
That is, from this evening, Princess Fiona gradually showed her similarities and differences. She can sing like other princesses, but the voice is so high that the birds will burst and die. For the rest of the eggs, She didn't take care of it carefully, but used it to make breakfast for herself, Shrek and the donkey.
Like other princesses, walking in the woods will be rescued from monsters, but she is not uncommon. Unlike other princesses, she has a powerful martial art that is also unmatched by ordinary people.
After spending time with Shrek, they discovered that each other had a lot in common with each other. While sprouting love, their hearts were contradictory.
Shrek thought, she is a princess and I am a monster. How could the princess be willing to be with a monster?
Fiona thought, I must find my true love, only true love can help me solve the curse, so I must kiss my true love before sunset, after all, who will see me become a monster after sunset and still be there Do you like me?
But in the end, as Shrek rushed into the castle, when he broke through the wedding, Fiona's inner shackles and our inner shackles were all broken.
Yes, who said that the princess must be like that, who said that the monster must be like that? Who said that a princess must be beautiful before someone likes it, and who said that a monster can't have a love of his own?
Those histories, those legends, those characters, those stories, they have a lot of things we don't know, and what we need to do is simple, just understand, nothing more.
It is true that this movie may be slightly ordinary today when it was placed on the shackles and broken, but for some people who had a fixed mindset at that time, it was a valuable asset.
Besides, who said that donkeys and dragons cannot have a bright future.
When a person (dragon) has never been praised, even if the other person's words are only rhetoric, the impact on the praised person will be unforgettable for a long time.
Well, praise the world, praise you all.
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