Huai Zhiyi
is undoubtedly an allegory. The only question is, what is it metaphorical? I read some comments on the Internet, and most people talk about these three tasks and the symbolic meaning of Captain and Pan. It is strange that no one mentioned the newborn child. Yes, the child is inconspicuous, as if it's just a prop to promote the plot. He doesn't even have a name. People call him "son", "brother", or simply "child".
But Romain Roland knows his name best. At the end of the film, when the child falls into the hands of the guerrillas, you will suddenly think of the end of "John Christopher": the saint Christopher passed that one. He, he asked the child on his shoulder: "My child, who are you? Why are you so heavy?" The child replied, "I am the day in the future." It was
exactly the same, and "future" was the child's name.
The child has three relatives, his father, Captain Vidal, the current ruler, the man who gave him life, and firmly believes that "he will inherit my father's and me." Sister Ophelia, the idealist who loves fantasy, Promise "Let you be a prince in my kingdom". It is the mother Carmen, who directly gave him flesh and blood, gave him the shape of others, and was the true creator of life. He had no plans and thoughts. The only hope was that he could be born in peace and win the favor of his father. Obviously, she was exactly that. The silent majority.
If the audience is allowed to vote for "who is the child who loves the most", Vidal will definitely be elected with a high number of votes. No one cares more about his bloodline than him. He not only has to maintain the rule of this world, but also to pass on the rule forever, even the mother who sacrificed his child will not hesitate. In his eyes, his wife is useless, weak, and dependent on him. Although she is inseparable from having children, her value is nothing more than that. It doesn't matter if she sacrifices. Anyway, as long as the "future" is ruled, the "silent majority" will never be lacking.
His wish could have been realized, and his ancestors passed it down in this way. Although there are some guerrillas in the mountains and there are a few undercover agents around, it is not a big trouble. The real trouble is with the wife. In addition to helping him conceive his son, his wife also brought a little girl who loves to watch fairy tales. This Ophelia never recognized the status of Vidal, let alone the world of Vidal. She thought there was an underground kingdom in that In the kingdom, she lives like a princess. Speaking of, the underground kingdom was told by her mother, and her mother also longed for that kingdom, but her mother never believed that it really existed. The lonely Ophelia could only succumb to Vidal's rule while looking for comfort in fantasy until Pan God appeared.
Pan Shen's identity is very interesting. He claims to be Ophelia's servant, but he holds the power to inspect the master. If the master can't complete the task, he can shut her out unceremoniously. He is more like a prophet, a spiritual teacher who overlooks mankind from above. He sat down to realize people's dreams about heaven and pointed out the concrete way to heaven. It's just that, as the title suggests, heaven is like a maze, and the princess has been lost in the world for too long. You can walk in, but you may not get out.
The first step is the spread of the gospel: how to lead to heaven? Go to the exploiters who are potbellied, they are the source of all suffering, just let them vomit the people's anointing. The three crystals that let the big toad regurgitate can be called freedom, equality, fraternity, or the people, the people’s governance, and the people. It can also be called democracy, people’s livelihood, nation, and even the united front, armed struggle, and party building. You can justify yourself anyway. This is the spread of the gospel, the enlightenment of ideas, and the brewing stage of the revolution. At this time, the society is active and open, and all kinds of fantastic ideas emerge in an endless stream. Ophelia easily completed the task. As a symbol of theoretical guidance, she gained Got the key. Pan Shen also gave her an extra mandela, as long as a little milk and blood are given to her, the birth of a new life will be without danger.
After the theoretical enlightenment, the concrete realization began, and the second task was much more complicated. There were three small doors in front of Ophelia. The elf instructed to open the one in the middle. After Ophelia hesitated, he opened the one on the left. Note that it was on the left. She took out a short sword from the left. In that moment, Ophelia revealed her name. In France, she was called Jacobin, in Russia, she was Bolshevik, and in "Pan's Labyrinth", she was called guerrilla. This drama is really unfailing. The prophet has long pointed out a middle way, but the enthusiastic revolutionaries can't listen to it. They would rather use swords, fire, and use their youth and passion to open up a path to heaven.
Immediately afterwards, she made a bigger mistake. Minzhimin’s paste in the last mission, the pile of disgusting paste spit out by the big toad, has turned into a table of bright and delicious food, guarded by only a zombie with no bead (by the way, the shape of the zombie is not new, we are early There is Yang Ren in "The Romance of the Gods"). The ruler is not difficult to defeat. The ancients said that it was only the first step in the Long March. The real test is that in the turbulent power vortex and the free feast of wealth, can revolutionaries be as pure as ever? As descendants of history, we know that the result of the test is desperate. It is true that some individuals are worthy of the title of "non-stick pan", but as a whole, no revolutionary organization can "live among thousands of flowers without sticking to one's body." Just stealing two grapes is enough to wake the sleeping zombies. The final result, whether it is the zombies swallowing the revolution or the revolution digesting the zombies, in short, everyone opposes and unites, spirals forward, joins hands and shares the feast.
The small door of the prophet was closed. The princess stayed in the world for too long and had been corrupted and deteriorated. Pan Shen roared angrily: Fallen mankind is not worthy of a noble kingdom! However, in the eyes of future generations, Ophelia is so innocent. Since heaven cannot be reached, it means that it does not exist. Since it is destined to be unable to become a Buddha, why use heaven to tempt people and what missions. To test people? Chasing a mirage in the desert can only make people die faster. The so-called prophet is actually a liar.
In a blink of an eye, Ophelia was abandoned by everyone. Pan Shen disappeared into the darkness in the corner after attacking the unrequited heart of the people. As for stepfather Vidal, he had long regarded her as a stranger, and he wished to kick her out of the house. Carmen, the mother Ophelia loves and wants to help the most, without thinking about her daughter’s kindness, directly denounced the set as witchcraft, and burned the mandela grass, but she alone was not enough. In order to give birth to the future, after a severe dystocia, he was exhausted and died. Ophelia sat alone next to her brother, all the roads of idealism have come to an end. She loves fantasy too much and can’t tolerate reality, and she can’t abandon her desires, nor can she go underground. She wants to help others, but In the end, people are often harmed. She will definitely miss the mandela grass. She has dreamed of becoming a human form all her life, but her dream has never come true.
At this time, outside of Ophelia's world, government forces and guerrillas were playing ping-pong-pong. The guerrillas in the film are hardly positive. They are as cruel and ruthless as Vidal, as if not for justice, but just a change of dynasty. On the eve of the decisive battle, Pan Shen appeared again. Pan Shen's appearance this time is really a mystery. Since the princess has gone bad, why bother to save her again? Even if it is to save her, how can heaven accept her? When Ophelia went through a fierce battle and carried her younger brother into the maze, but Pan Shen instructed her to sacrifice with a child, the mystery was suddenly revealed: the ideal has a paradise for the ideal, and the metamorphosed has a paradise for the metamorphosed. Sacrificing the "future" can also have a fallen paradise.
Ophelia refused, she handed the child to Vidal, and was shot to death without mercy. In the afterglow of fantasy, Ophelia rose to heaven, not an ideal heaven, nor a metamorphic heaven, but her own fantasy heaven. There, the suffering mother sat high on the throne, accepting everyone's cheers and admiration. Pan Shen came out from behind the throne and said: "Your choice is right. You did not choose to sacrifice your brother, but to sacrifice yourself." The coffin concluded. Sacrifice is not enough to redeem the revolution, but it is enough to redeem herself. We finally know her last name: Che Guevara.
The idealist is dead, but the fight for the future continues. To the end of the film, the child left all his relatives. When Vidal found out that he was surrounded by guerrillas, he was not in a panic. Although he would lose his future, he had a past after all, and their blood inheritance was indelible. He handed the child to the enemy, leaving the pocket watch inherited from his father, and said confidently: "Tell his father when he died." The
guerrilla replied, "No, we won't tell him, he doesn't even know your name. "Then a bullet hit the head, interrupting all contact between him and the child.
What will happen in the future, who will know?
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