The original fairy tales are always beautiful, and this beauty always has a fixed pattern, such as good guys, bad guys, princes, and princesses. The story is that the prince saves the princess, the bad guys harm the good guys, and finally Happy Ending.
But the current Hollywood fairy tales seem to feel that such stories are not three-dimensional enough, and the characters are not full enough, so they start to add a lot of content, and even mix and match various elements-good people are no longer completely good people, bad people have also been bad. The prince may not be the protagonist but soy sauce, and even the prince may not be a good person but a bad person, and the princess no longer thinks that the ground is weak but may be the protagonist.
In fact, "Shrek" is already the beginning of this three-dimensional trend-the hero is no longer a prince charming, but may be a monster, and the prince is a bastard; although the princess is a bit spoiled by the princess plot, it is essentially She was still a sturdy female man, let alone shrek in the end.
The Shrek series undoubtedly made a small-scale subversion of the entire fairy tale world, and with this as the beginning, the entire fairy tale world began an irreversible phase shift.
Not only have traditional fairy tales been reconstructed, but Disney and Hollywood's new fairy tales have also been reconstructed. The boundaries between good and bad have been blurred and changed.
"Maleficent" is such a film.
From Angelina Judy's appearance, a strong symbolic meaning can be seen.
Although she was regarded as the godmother by Sleeping Beauty (the godmother in "Shrek" suddenly flashed in her mind, and then she realized that this shouldn't be the red flower fairy in it...), her image is actually the image of a demon— —Just a long and hooked tail. The crow she carried with her was similarly symbolic—the existence of the protector was actually a crow instead of a white dove. This master and servant overturned all people's understanding of the protector in the past.
Therefore, the whole story can be interpreted like this:
Because of human desire and greed for power, the originally kind fairies incarnate into hateful demons for revenge-in fact, the reason why the crow follows the witch is also because of the human hunting and killing of it. These two symbolic symbols can be regarded as To represent the same paradigm.
In other words, demons are created by human greed-this is the whole story on this level.
This is actually a three-dimensional and whitewashing of traditional bad guys-bad guys are not born bad. Even ugly-looking witches are not witches who are bad to the bones at the beginning, but have a simple sense of mission and love. The longing fairy turned black after being betrayed. From this point of view, if we abandon the human desire for power symbolized by the male rebellion, we can only regard the distance and distance of the fairy’s transfer to the witch. This is an indictment of the modern society's concept of love-there is no longer true love like love. Therefore, women (including men of course) must keep their eyes open, otherwise they may fall into the magical way after being deceived by a scumbag.
The true love of childhood, men began to get involved in the power struggle of the society, and finally abandon women for their own careers, while women began to be disappointed in society and life, and retaliated against men in various ways. This Japanese drama model is behind this movie. The appearance of modern fairy tales in the posture of black fairy tales is really imaginative-this is what I said at the beginning. Now Hollywood and Disney have incorporated a lot of modern elements in order to make the plots and characters of the old stories more full and three-dimensional. And mix and match.
Furthermore, we can notice that the elves in the forest as proof of image are all images of agricultural society, but the iron objects that can harm fairies/devils can not help but remind people of the layer in "The Lord of the Rings" Moral-the official industrial civilization represented by Sauron's Warcraft Legion.
If this level of symbolism is not an over-interpretation, then this film can also be seen as discussing the infringement and plundering of the harmonious nature by human beings of industrial civilization—this is not just the beginning of the king’s promise to the people The undertaking ("Taking the Forest and the Treasures in the Forest") is also a portrayal of the interaction between humans and elves throughout the animation.
Ironware, which represents human industrial civilization, has absolute repressive power against Ma Lifeisen, who represents the power of nature. Isn’t this the destructive destruction of nature by technology?
Putting aside these symbolisms, the most impressive thing in this film is, in my opinion, the successor king-he can take away the most precious things of his former love for the sake of power, and he can also let the blacksmith in order to maintain his power. Work started late at night, and the queen was about to die, and her daughter was just locked in the room when she came back. When he opened, everything was not important, only holding his throne was important, and this persistence was maintained from childhood to death.
The fairy Marie Fissen is also impressive, because the character is three-dimensional enough-from the simple guarding of the forest at the beginning, to the blackened revenge after being injured by betrayal, and then to being moved and awakened by the Sleeping Beauty, there are also various interspersed in between. Kind of mischievous pranks and meticulous protection of girls. I have to say that Angelina performed this character very well, especially when she looked at the little girl, the kind of maternal love wrapped in hatred was vividly reflected in the pair of changer-like eyes.
For other characters, I have always thought that Sleeping Beauty’s true love should belong to the crow. After more than ten years of company, Mr. Crow failed to capture the role of the frog prince. The scene of true love was snatched by the heroine with a kiss. Sorrowful.
And the prince who has only three scenes is really good at soy sauce, and he doesn't have any other skills except being handsome. When he kisses the princess, I can almost hear the crow cry in my heart: I am true love, I am!
I have to say that this movie and "Frozen" are really too similar. Although the protagonist in "Frozen" is not so soy, he actually didn't do much. The final boss fight and He has nothing to do, and even more so, he is not the TrueLove either. The other thing about Frozen and Maleficent is that TrueLove has nothing to do with men.
TrueLove in "Ice" is sisterhood, but in "Shen" it can be regarded as mother-daughter love.
In fact, everyone seems to have gradually realized that the traditional Hollywood emotional movies of "love first" have been paralyzed, so all kinds of subversion have been moved out-just like the subversion of fairy tales.
Although we all say that Love contains many things, such as the love of men and women, the love of brothers, the love of sisters, the love of father and son, mother and daughter, etc., it is all love.
But when we mentioned TrueLove in the past, we basically thought of love between men and women. For example, TrueLoveKiss in "Shrek" is Shrek's kiss to Fiona. In these two movies, TrueLove has adopted a broader definition of Love, and they are all of the same sex, so people have to think whether homestead rot has become the main theme of the world.
Of course, there is almost nothing about men in the whole film—except for soy sauce—which seems to be another film that promotes feminism.
Finally, let's talk about something else.
In terms of performance, I love Angelina Judy's acting skills, especially her eyes. Of course, the uneven cheekbones are naturally a highlight, which highlights her expression and eyes.
The 3D special effects are great, and many 3D scenes flying around or breaking through glass are really cool.
There is only the beginning part of the big scene battle. This is not very enjoyable,
and there are too many plots in the plot. For example, if you can be magical, there is no need to fight so fortunately in the end.
In short, the overall rating is almost three stars.
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