I remember that the Blu-ray version of this film was introduced in the supplements of recent issues of "Watching Movies", and the title was written like this: As long as there is one person watching fairy tales, there is still hope in this world. I would like to believe that this is true.
When did it start, I stopped reading fairy tales. The cabinet is full of so-called adult literature, famous articles by famous names. I am used to deconstructing the meaning of sentences, and I feel that people are so big, people are so complicated, and the world is so desolate. If you are not strong enough, you cannot live on this solid land, so please be strong and strong, you can burn the small universe and protect your small heart.
However, I still love fairy tales. Like Dorothy and her magic shoe, like the Scarecrow and its heart, like Peter Pan and his island, like the little prince and his rose. I am willing to believe that the reason why I don't have the good fate of the protagonist of the fairy tale is because I am not naive, serious, brave and strong enough.
Back to this animation. It's really an old animation, and I was horrified when I watched 1979. It turns out that at such an early time, the French people have realized that animation is not something to fool little devils? The third plus five equals eight plus eight equals sixteen. How obvious is His Majesty that the image of Mr. Louis XVI was put on the screen in a playful manner, with round legs, a mustache, and a cross-eyed His Majesty. The tyrannical nature, if there is a slight unsatisfactory place, he will not hesitate to press the button to send the person to the eighteenth hell - it is said that the prison is ironic about the Bastille. The painter gave him a portrait, but it was clearly cross-eyed, but he didn't let anyone draw it. With a single click of a button, a soul returned to the sky.
The king in the painting fell in love with the beautiful shepherdess in the other painting, but unexpectedly, they belonged to her. So he jumped out of the painting and sent the real body into the ground with the real king's button, while he led a large number of police to chase the beautiful woman. Later, with the help of Xiaoniao, a pair of lovers finally got married, and the magnificent but ruthless palace collapsed suddenly under the work of the robot controlled by Xiaoniao. And what the robot smashed with the last bit of strength was a cage for imprisoning birds. End.
Fairy tales should be like this, let children see what children should see, and then let adults think about adults. The animation based on Andersen's "The Chimney Sweeper and the Shepherdess" has completely become an anthem of the Revolution. Love, just as a foil for freedom, leads the story forward. In fact, what impressed me the most was by no means the two lovers with different skin colors, but the blind man who always held on to hope, the bird who stubbornly asked for his freedom.
The design of the palace is extremely extravagant, and only the king enjoys the upper part, while the poor bottom layer is populated by the vast majority of the people. The hierarchy of the image is so vividly outlined by a few strokes. And the various departments broadcast in the king's elevator showed the complexity of the organization. Even the umbrellas used by women have a separate room, which makes people laugh and cry. In order to please the king at all costs, those policemen also reflected a kind of villain's intentions and helplessness. Each of the king's rooms has a skeleton-like button for sending people to hell at any time. I remember reading a report that said that Mr. Spielberg was terrified by the witch in "Snow White" when he was a child, and even when he was older, he still felt terrified. Thinking about it now, in fact, how terrifying is this device that can throw people into hell at any time. The word tyranny is simply a powerful picture!
Compared with these ugly upper-class people, the people who live in the bottom floor of the castle are so dazzling. The blind man who plays the accordion, loves music, has an optimistic personality, and stubbornly believes in light and warmth, even if he can't see it. "I know there is another world!" It also seems to point to a theme of the animation. There must be a world without oppression, where the sun shines, the world is warm, and the birds sing freely. And the image of him singing to the ferocious felines in hell is still fresh in my memory. No matter how cruel a person is, the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty in his heart is still the same.
Last but not least, the amazing bird. He dared to reprimand the king's serene, dared to help the couple in love, and even persuaded the tigers, leopards and jackals in the prison to rebel against the king together, and finally drove the robot directly to destroy the entire palace. I have to say that this bird has a good speech eloquence. I don’t know if this is also insinuating something. After all, good eloquence can be used by Martin Luther King, and so can Hitler. The bird is here to resist violent authority, but I think a certain head of state seems to be not so simple. The power of language is beyond the reach of any violence, but at the same time, language itself is a kind of violence, and it depends entirely on the character of the user.
Later robots were more straightforward. If the robot is a symbol of violence, then the function of the knife is very simple - whoever uses it is what it does. The cage he smashed before the energy ran out seemed to be the epilogue - the only proper use of violence is to destroy the cage. And then it takes on the look of a thinker (does it tell the grown-ups to sit down and think about it, lol), and that's the end of the show.
There is no imagined shepherdess and chimney sweeps living happily together. Violence destroys not only the palace of the king, but also the homes where the people live. So, what to do after that? This seems to be left to the audience to think about.
Thinking about it now, it is incredible. I watched so many classic animations when I was a child. At that time, the domestic animations were still good. They were not occupied by the Blue Cat Group. The Rubik's Cube Building, which was scolded to death, attracted my attention as always. The selective acceptance of foreign animation is not as consistent as it is today. I actually saw such classic works as "Grave of the Fireflies" and "The King and the Bird" at that time. It's really happy to think about it. At that time, people didn't understand what cuteness was, and animation had not been completely reduced to a service industry.
The director of this film is Paul Gurimaud, who is known as "the only remaining film master of French animation, and he is the conscience of the animation film industry" (I seem to have heard this, and he is talking about Mr. Gong), the artistic quality of the film , allegorical are so outrageous, no wonder that so many people are rushing to the collector's edition now.
Well, I hope the director's grandfather, who has passed away for thirteen years, rests in peace.
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Revolutionary hymn.
That's right, if such a violent monarch killed it, that's all. However, in my own strange habit of sobriety, I went to re-study the French Revolution. Strangely many questions still haunt me. Louis XVI was surprisingly a man who knew reform. Moreover, relatively speaking, France was under relatively low-pressure rule at the time, and the so-called “rebellion” seems to have lost its effect-is it really because you know what is better, so you can’t tolerate the tragic reality.
Moreover, I also feel very puzzled about the fall of the Bastille. There were only seven prisoners in it at that time. If it was a tyrannical king, how could there be only seven prisoners in the most famous prison. Besides, the people seem to be too cruel to the king's relatives... Doesn't the Declaration of Human Rights say that everyone is equal, since it is equal, it doesn't matter who's descendants are...
Ah, anyway, I'm an ignorant science student - to use a new sentence Let me end this confusion with the words I learned - "Humans are really confusing to me".
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