In "Pan's Labyrinth", Ophelia uses her own fairy tales to resist the huge horror.
In "Tideland", Rose uses her own fairy tales to fight against the great loneliness.
The contrast between beautiful fantasy and cruel reality is really unbearable. If the white lies deliberately made by adults for children in "Life is Beautiful" make people feel poignant, then the spontaneous self-deceiving fantasies of children in "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Tideland" are even more heartbreaking.
In Pan's Labyrinth, the death ending of Ophelia's fantasy into the golden hall may be a relief for her, but Rose's last sentence "I'm hungry" in "Tideland" and the very meaningful look are not. Made me feel a chill. After his mother died of a drug overdose, Rose followed his father to a deserted wasteland. He didn't know that his father froze to death in a chair due to a drug overdose on the first day... Rose kept his father still for a long time and his body began to rot and hair. Smelly sees that his father is still "fascinated" (drug use) and "stinking fart", on the other hand, Rose easily accepts the fact that his mother died of drug overdose in bed. It can be seen that Rose In fact, she knew everything... She just deceived herself to deny the truth in order to protect herself - if she clearly told herself that she was alone and a corpse in this deserted wasteland, even if she was an adult People will collapse too.
The appearance of the witch-like animal and human taxidermist Doll and the ugly sheep-head mad patient Dickens gives Rose hope. When she first saw Doll, Rose thought she was a ghost and was terrified. Seeing Doll again was after Rose's father died. Rose expressed her immense loneliness with a cheerful "she doesn't hate me". However, after the three of them painted the abandoned house, they were lying on the bed where Rose's father's specimen was placed. Rose reached out to Doll to express his affection, but Doll rejected it. Later, Rose peeped at the body transaction between Doll and the deliveryman and was found out. After it happened, Rose understood that it was impossible to establish an intimacy between herself and Doll (by the way, Rose's uncharacteristically calmness about Doll's taxidermy of his father's body was all the more reassuring. I firmly believe in the fact that she knew her father was dead). So the helpless Rose turned to win over Dickens, imagined that he was a great captain, and even established a relationship with Dickens (you know, Rose and Dickens are very different in age and Dickens used to be Rose's grandmother's lover!--|||)
Mummy, ancient The empty house, Barbie's dismembered body, these things that make ordinary people fear, but in the film they do not arouse the three people's fear at all, and even become their favorite things. This is because the most terrible thing is not fear, But be alone.
Rose understands that the only way to save herself is to sink down, sink down, and only in this way can only use fantasy to save herself.
Thanks for the last train accident and thanks to the director for this arrangement. Seizing this opportunity, Rose was finally able to break free from the fairy tale she weaved and return to reality. Without this train accident, I don't think Rose would be able to hold on to his impending collapse. When the accident survivor asked her if she was also an accident survivor, Rose chose to acquiesce. In the end Rose said: "I'm hungry", which was the first sentence she said after returning to reality. Hunger is a very realistic feeling, and there will be no hunger in fantasy, so in the middle of the film, the scene that reflects hunger only appears once: Doll takes Rose's father The corpse was taxidermied and the three of them had dinner with Dickens after helping Rose paint the abandoned house. At that time, Rose was trying to establish an intimate relationship with the two of them. Rose's gobbling was a show of hunger, that is, Rose was trying to return to reality. performance, but unfortunately failed. So Rose returned to the fairy tale of self-weaving - after this, before the train accident, the film did not mention Rose's hunger.
At the end of the film, Rose's meaningful look is the key to my realization. The little girl who seems innocent and loves fantasy actually has a scheming that is beyond ordinary people. She understands that she no longer has to deceive herself to save herself from an existential crisis. And when the accident survivor said that we depended on each other during this time, another fairy tale had just begun, but this time, it was not Rose weaving fairy tales for herself, but for her (the accident survivor)...
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