Unconventional fairy tales
——"Shrek" film review
The donkey said to Shrek, "You have many layers, but not everyone likes onions. Everyone likes cakes, and cakes have many layers." Shrek returned to "I don't care, what do you like." These two conversations were like As the finishing touch, people all over the world love colors and judge people by appearance, which has been the case since ancient times. In addition, the inherent impression is difficult to subvert. Just as in fairy tales, most princes and princesses live happily together, as if all the stories in the world should be the ending, as if the princess can only rely on the princes to save and marry The princess, as if the prince can only become a king by marrying a princess. But Shrek's story overturned everyone's previous cognition: it turns out that princesses and monsters can be happy together. It turns out that princesses are not necessarily beautiful. It turns out that princesses are still radiant after leaving the prince.
Everyone is themselves and will not be changed by external forces, but everyone’s destiny is in their own hands. They can freely choose how to live this life without fear of danger and meaningless worldliness. This is the "Monster "Shrek" wants to tell everyone the most important truth.
Although the directors of "Shrek" are different, the timeline of the film and the relationship between the characters are layered and logically clear, but the theme is the same, against the established destiny, and some anti-antigens. Life, break the routine, and strive to pursue the life you want.
The theme of the first part revolves around the process that Shrek walks out of his swamp step by step to meet the princess, meet, know, and fall in love with the princess. The beginning of the film is the splicing of the scene of Shrek living his own life happily. As soon as the camera turns, the people come with torches to kill him. Shrek faces villagers who are much weaker than him and can use one hand. The fire extinguisher did not hurt anyone. On the contrary, these villagers have never understood what kind of creature Shrek is. They only know that "If they are not my race, their hearts must be different." There is nothing more narrow in people's minds than this, except for the fairy tale characters of Shrek. Nor Cao, talking donkeys are not accommodated by human society, even if humans created these characters in the first place. This setting in the film not only paved the way for Shrek to save the princess, but also made endless mockery of all kinds of hypocritical behaviors with humans.
The King Fugua in the movie is short, faint and incompetent. Chao Ling Xi Gai still stands tall and decorates himself with power and hypocrisy, just like a symbol of the prince in traditional fairy tale novels. Only a prince can become a king if he marries a princess. These are all people. The stereotype, whether it is the first King Fugua, the later Prince Charming, and ordinary people think so. And Shrek came to break this impression. He was a monster but was chosen by King Pugu to save the princess by mistake.
In the film, the dragon guarding the princess is female. This is an interesting setting. A pink, lipstick, and gold dragon with a girlish heart fell in love with a donkey at first sight and followed the donkey to find them. Accompany them all the way. In the past fairy tales, the dragon always took the princess away cruelly and unreasonably, and then was killed by the prince or knight to complete the mission. It was the "villain" rejected by everyone, but in Shrek. It has become a flesh and blood and thoughtful image, harmonious with the Shrek family, and problems encountered by ordinary couples with the donkey. She has been embodied, and the plumpness is no longer just a symbol in traditional fairy tales. , Everything we do is without reason and meaningless.
The first one ends with a princess turning into a monster, which has laid the foundation for the entire series of films. The second one is like deciphering. Why does the princess become a monster? How does Shrek be recognized by the princess’s parents and how is it recognized by the people?
When the story is about to meet the parents, everyone knows that things are going to turn around. Your daughter becomes a monster and is still with a monster. As long as it is a normal human, there is no way to accept it immediately! The attitude of the king and his wife has actually mirrored the attitude of ordinary people in the face of such things. But the irony of the movie lies in this: Lord King, who is extremely disgusted with the monster Shrek, is also a monster himself.
The appearance of Prince Charming in the film is like a comedy. He traverses thousands of mountains and rivers to catch up with the tower but there is no princess in the tower. I believe that many people here are amused. Later, his status in the face of the death of his mother has plummeted. He had to suffer all the insults in the theater to get up and pull the villains from other fairy tales to "make things" together, but in fact he was only brainwashed, thinking that the princess just wants to be with the prince, and only when he marries the princess can he become a king. So his life revolves around this purpose. The people around him and his mother are pushing him to pursue the princess. Therefore, when the princess is no longer the original princess, the prince is no longer a prince. But in the final analysis, it is the result of the prince who has a false name, has no real talents, and his temperament is a hypocritical substance. It turns out that the prince is not a prince without a princess, ridiculous and sad.
In the second part, not only is the conflict between ordinary people and Shrek, but also the conflict between the princess and Shrek. Although the princess chose to be a monster, she received human civilization and education after all. , Her relationship with her parents, her sense of responsibility to the country, and various rules are all engraved in her heart, but Shrek is just a monster. His past has always been free and easy, and a swamp can make him happy. In life, he doesn't understand the various thoughts in people's minds, and he doesn't understand many problems, but he is sincere and frank and willing to work hard to change and adapt to the complicated life and rules for the people he loves. In the end, it was respected and loved by the king and queen and his people, and the entire kingdom was also a thriving scene.
The ending of the second part seems to be satisfactory, but there are still many problems. Shrek is a monster after all. Can he suppress his own nature? Prince Charming has suffered so many setbacks, what is he going to do? These all set the stage for the third part, but the second part also changed some things, such as people's attitude towards Shrek. This actually means that people are beginning to try to accept new things, are willing to admit his beauty, and are no longer stuck in past legends and inherent impressions. Make changes step by step. From then on, the movie "Shrek" is not only limited to rebellious fairy tales, but also unconventional fairy tales. It has begun to join the discussion of the characters and the characters themselves. The collective appearance of the third princess makes the story thorough Reached a climax.
At the beginning of the third part, Shrek walked away to find Arthur, and the villain together attacked the kingdom under the leadership of Prince Charming. This is a beginning, but it also implies that monsters can put on human costumes and pretend to be nobles. They cannot become real human beings. Instead, they will lose their instincts in the process and restrain their own nature. Going far also means seeking. Way out.
After Prince Charming ran away, he met and joined the villains in various fairy tales. This incident is a great irony in itself. The prince and the villain, who are the "protagonists", stand on the united front. At this time, the "protagonist" is actually "". The boundaries of "villain" have been very blurred, and the quality of a person is only between one's own thoughts. Sometimes, it may just be a different angle.
As villains, they have been suppressed for a long time, their lives are difficult, and their hearts are unwilling. No one supervises them. Therefore, once gaining power and returning to the "far, terrible country", he just vented his inner dissatisfaction, burned, killed, and looted, and messed up the country. The prince kept saying that he wanted to be the king of the country. Facing this situation, he didn’t have the slightest compassion. Instead, he only wanted to put Shrek to death. With such a temperament, even if he married a princess, he couldn’t become a qualified king. , This is the question and irony of the protagonists in the past fairy tales.
In addition, the collective appearance of the princesses is a bright spot. What's interesting is that in traditional fairy tales, none of the princes who love them appear, and there are never those princes in the dialogue between the princesses. At this time, one Very interesting setting. Every fairy tale ends with "The prince and princess have lived a happy life." But what is a happy life? Or we can boldly guess that the prince of these princesses may be the same!
There are many speculations surrounding the princesses, but the appearance of these princesses plays an inseparable role in the theme of the film. Fiona is a princess with a unique style, and she thought she should be an outlier among the princesses. But the appearance of the princesses shows that every princess is different. Fiona’s mother can hit the wall with her head, Snow White’s singing can be exchanged for birds, and Rapunzel’s hair is actually fake. of! All these manifestations are actually telling people that the stereotypes on the surface are not necessarily true. Truth, goodness and beauty are just a face of human nature, and maybe even just a disguise.
The princess can still live well without the prince, but the princess is not exactly the incarnation of truth, goodness and beauty. Rapunzel can betray other princesses for the so-called prince and queen position, although it did not succeed in the end. But I also told everyone that the princess is indeed a beautiful existence, but the princess is also a human being. It really exists in the world and has its own independent personality. It is not a vase that can be summed up in just a few lines of fairy tales. They are still princesses who can shine without a prince.
Although "Shrek" rebelled and broke the fairy tales of princes and princesses in the past, it did not leave the core of fairy tales in a sense, and was still full of fantasy. The ending of the third part is like the ending in traditional fairy tales. The same, but if it ends here, it will make the whole series of movies feel like an anticlimax, so the fourth movie will appear.
The fourth film is more like a continuation of the story. The discussion continues the previous core. It is an unconventional fairy tale, but it starts from the trivial daily life. The lives of monsters and monsters also have contradictions and complicated things that need to be resolved. Need to adapt. Everyone should choose his own life and be responsible for it.
The "Shrek" series of movies are based on the setting of traditional fairy tales. The character stories involved are all new interpretations based on familiar fairy tales, subverting the image of these characters in the original story. It is an unconventional fairy tale movie.
In addition to the most prominent Rapunzel and Prince Charming, there are also Little Red Riding Hood who has become a thief and her kind wolf grandmother. They are all different from the archetypes in these fairy tales that we have known before. But this time it is more innovative ideas. The princess is not necessarily a prince, but also a monster. The cursed princess does not necessarily have to be as beautiful as the original. Even a monster will love her and pay for her. . Monsters and monsters can also live happily, and monsters can also be friendly to humans.
Many of these fairy tale characters are related to humans, and sometimes they are even made by humans. However, in the movie, a command from "King Fugua" allows these humans to send out fairy tale humans for exchange, which is also a different kind. The irony.
In the final analysis, fairy tales are things written by adults, and a fairy tale is often very rich in connotation. In the eyes of a thousand readers, there is a thousand Hamlet. Children look at fairy tales and see stories, happiness and joy, while adults look at fairy tales and see innocence and life. The movie "Shrek" is dressed in fairy tales, talking about human affairs, satirizing conventions, and satirizing the so-called "incarnation of justice" satirizing princesses and princes.
The time and image of human appearance in the film is always the same as that of others. It seems that there is not a trace of one’s own opinion. He only knows that he is drifting with the crowd, his thoughts are rigid and full of irony. But in the end, Arthur, the king of the "far, deadly country" was indeed a human. This contrast is very interesting. It emphasizes the concept that humans can live in harmony with other races, but it is still only humans that can change the rule of humans in the country.
Every life should be controlled by itself, be it monsters, fairy tale characters, or people. No one can control the lives and destiny of others unless they are willing to be dominated, but I believe that as long as they are intelligent creatures with their own thoughts, they will not be willing to be in control of their own lives. In the same way, every life has the right to be happy, and live hard and earnestly live your life well.
"Shrek" is an "unconventional fairy tale", but it is also a regular fairy tale because no matter "conventional" or "unconventional", it just hopes that the audience can benefit from the movie and live a better life.
People often say, "I have heard many stories, but I still have a bad life." But "Shrek" tells everyone that as long as you live well, you will have a good life.
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