Movies are dark adult metaphors

Nickolas 2022-10-11 20:17:56

After reading the original book yesterday, I searched for the 1985 version of the movie "Return to Oz" and watched it again. The style of the original book and the movie are very different. The original book is bright and relaxed; the movie is adult metaphor and dark. I think the movie is more in line with the world view of adults, and it is more thought-provoking.

From a movie standpoint, the story might go something like this: A ten-year-old girl on a farm in Kansas orphaned as a child, living with her poor aunt and uncle, alone on the prairie with Toto the dog and other farms Accompanied by creatures, the little girl imaginatively imagined the country of Oz and various characters and monsters for herself and enjoyed it.

After the tornado, the little girl was hit hard on the head in the tornado (the entire story of The Wizard of Oz was filled in her brain and replaced as the protagonist). The uncle and aunt borrowed money to take the child to the mental hospital, and left behind a lunch bag. The mental hospital has electric shock therapy equipment (looks like a person), the head nurse is very fierce, the mental hospital is very depressed, and there are screams everywhere (please everyone mind-boggling thriller). The little girl was schizophrenic after/before being electrocuted, and she saw a beautiful little girl (actually her own imagination, or her avatar after schizophrenia, and her fantasy Princess Ozma of the Kingdom of Oz), in the beautiful With the help of the girl, she escaped from the mental hospital in the torrential rain and went out to the river, where she passed out.

In a coma, I had a dream, and what I dreamed was all the content in the above-mentioned "Princess Ozma", which was mixed with a lunch bag, a pumpkin-headed man, and Princess Randwell was the head nurse of the mental hospital, etc. The next day, the unconscious little girl was found by her uncle and aunt, and found that she finally fell asleep yesterday. The uncle and aunt happily took the little girl home, thinking that she was cured.

In the new house on the farm, the little girl looked at the mirror, and a beautiful girl (Princess Ozma) appeared in the mirror, and she smiled happily. (My dark voice-over: At this time, after experiencing electric shock therapy in a mental hospital, the little girl finally became a schizophrenic with a deeper concealment. Not only did she dream of her avatar in a dream, but she began to see her avatar in reality)

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Return to Oz quotes

  • Billina: Some place for a chicken coop! How big is this pond anyway?

    Dorothy: I don't think it's a pond, Billina.

    [gets up and looks around]

    Dorothy: I guess it is a pond.

    Billina: Hmm, told you so.

    Dorothy: Where did all the rest of the water go?

    Billina: Where did Kansas go? Ohh, this is some place for a chicken coop.

    Dorothy: When did you learn to talk anyway? I thought hens could only cluck and cackle.

    Billina: Strange, ain't it? How's my grammar?

  • Nurse Wilson: Lie down.

    Dorothy: I'd like to sit up, if I may.

    Nurse Wilson: What did your aunt tell you?

    Dorothy: To do what you told me, Miss Wilson.

    Nurse Wilson: Then, lie down.

    [the attendants are strapping Dorothy to the stretcher]

    Dorothy: Why do you have to tie me down?

    Nurse Wilson: So that you don't fall off.

    Dorothy: I came all the way from the farm on a buggy and I didn't fall off.

    [They start to wheel Dorothy down the hall]

    Dorothy: Did I hear somebody scream earlier?

    Nurse Wilson: No.

    [They wheel Dorothy through some double doors. Dr. Worley is adjusting his machine]

    Dr. Worley: Hello, Dorothy. How are you?

    Dorothy: I wish I wasn't tied down.

    Dr. Worley: [chuckles] Nothing to worry about.