First of all, don't watch this film as a fairy tale or magic, you will be disappointed. Although there are some seemingly attractive special effects productions in the middle, it is essentially a dark and heavy movie.
After we watched "Harry Potter", "Narnia" and so on, we are naturally willing to believe that Ophelia really saw God Pan, and that it was the mandela roots of God Pan that made her mother gradually recover. , I am willing to believe that there is a magic chalk that can turn a stone wall into a door... But everything is just that we are willing to believe it. Sadly, my mother threw the mandela grass into the stove and burned my wish. The chalk mark that still exists in the lens finally appeared; Ophelia stopped breathing gently after the gorgeous palace; the still withered fig tree... In fact, everything was just her fantasy.
Yes, it was just her fantasy. From the very beginning, she weaved her own world. I want to call a stranger my father; I want to leave the city I have lived in for a long time and go to a military camp where my life is in danger at any time. She was afraid of facing these things. She began to imagine a country free of worries and wars. So the stones stepped on the roadside were the beginning of her fantasy: Ophelia went back to the car and told her mother that she saw one Elves.
As the fear of the captain increased, her mother became weaker and weaker, and her fantasies became even crazier: Pan Shen appeared and told herself that she was actually a princess of the underground kingdom, and she had a father who was a king. What does the underground kingdom mean? She didn't want to understand, she only had to let herself escape from this terrible environment now, with a father who was not so terrible, so Ophelia decided to accept Pan Shen's challenge and complete 3 tasks.
Take a closer look at the first two tasks. In fact, it is the projection of the action of the undercover Mercedes in the movie: Ophelia fooled Big Toad with bugs and successfully put three magic stones into its mouth. Li then got the key, and this key was the key to the warehouse: Mercedes gained the captain's trust so that he could continue to help the guerrillas. Then, Ophelia found the dagger with the key, but because of her carelessness, she was discovered by the devil who specializes in eating children. So Mercedes' undercover identity was exposed. Just as Ophelia escaped the demon, Mercedes was also rescued. After Mercedes left, Ophelia had no one to trust. Her mother died because of childbirth. When she was desperate, Pan Shen reappeared and promised to give her another chance. In fact, this is just a chance for her herself: to bring her newborn brother into the maze. Why bring her brother? Because in her opinion, her younger brother is the only relative in this world.
My only doubt in the whole film appears here: Why doesn't Ophelia let Pan Shen take two drops of blood? Is it just to delay a little time so that the captain can find her? Looking forward to expert answers.
Ophelia was shot in the stomach by the captain. When she was dying, she seemed to see the underground kingdom, a kind father, and her dead mother. Pan Shen walked out and told her that she had done nothing wrong and that she passed the test...I really hope everything stops here. But the director did not give the audience a chance: the camera switched, after finishing these dying fantasies, Ophelia smiled and stopped breathing. And the dead tree she had penetrated was still lifeless.
The director makes the two lines parallel, only making the cruel look more cruel, and the beautiful one even more vulnerable.
Let me talk about a few features of the film. The
first is the color: in the real barracks, it is dark, cold, gloomy...Anyway, anything related to the yin character can be used, but in Ophelia’s fantasy world, it is warm and golden. , Even the ugly toad nest feels warm.
The second is the violent close-up: I believe that people who have seen it will not forget the following shots: using iron rods to jab in the face; the hand that was beaten and deformed; the leg that was about to rot; and the most classic stitching of their own face The wound on the upper...So, how can you take a child to watch this together? Do you really think it was the money-burning special effects movie of the little girl's final victory against the devil?
The third is the parallel of the two lines: many comments say that the two lines cross too little, which is a bit unreasonable. But in fact, sometimes reality and illusion do not necessarily have to correspond to each other. Anyway, I think it would be too stupid if the correspondence is really accurate...
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In general, this is a very good movie. After watching it, it reminds me of two things. The first is Andersen's "Little Matches for Selling Girls" (in turn, thank you). Three matches are three tasks. In the end, she went to the happiest place, and then people found her frozen to death on the street the next day. The second one is Tideland by Terry Gilliam, which is also a very unfair fairy tale. You can watch it more.
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