Before we start talking about the topic, let's talk about "methodology": as a master-level fairy tale, it is very mythical, and mythology has three cores: heroes, adventures and miracles, and the core is adventure.
As far as the hero is concerned, its core lies in a constant action actor, and other kinds of "peripheral issues" that modern people are easy to care about are not discussed at all; therefore, try not to ask why the king kills the monster himself, and why the monster is so stupid ...don't ask why the savage is so powerful, why the princess suddenly won in the end...don't ask these, and the old girl who ran away will not come back, she missed, the king is left with only miss;
As far as miracles are concerned, miracles exist all the time in mythology, and they are right beside "you and me", but it has three conditions: first, it took hundreds of years of enlightenment to wake up modernity and get rid of it psychologically. "Charm"; the second is to reverse the results corresponding to the "Great Geographical Discovery", so that the forests, the inaccessible wilderness, the remote islands and the depths of the sea—mysteries—are refilled. By the way, for fairy tales, the forest is a must; finally, in modern psychology, the state of "unhealthy anxiety" called "psychological unhealthy" is exactly the necessary condition for miracles in mythology to happen. Grandma who peeled her own skin, her voice was full of this dread;
Finally, as far as adventure is concerned, adventure in mythology is a symbol and ritual, which means that every action of the hero breaks into the motif of meaning and directly communicates with the "core". The sense of futility of the modern mind is not in mythology. exist. So, rape, injury, misfortune... These details are used to hold the soul tightly, they are not the same as the evil in the historical narrative, they are impressive and purify... And at the end of the adventure, is the recovery Also, it's the return of everything - at the end of the film, everything is calmed down by the incredible things that have to do with magic.
In this way, we can more easily smash all the stories, put all the stories in a unified way of observation and integrate them: the story starts from the unhappiness of a certain queen (woman), and in the process, There are also unhappy women, such as the princess who yearns for new experiences, the grandmother who desires to be rejuvenated overnight; and why are these women unhappy?
Because men-kings either go to fight monsters (the reason doesn't matter, the focus is on action), or raise monsters, or hunt for beauty (weird), or men also show affection to each other and form friendships that women can't enter.
However, such a man is precisely the man who is accepted, loved, respected or willing to give his life by women (the queen died at the hands of his son); the only exception in the whole film - he himself is a monster with outstanding combat effectiveness (the lice monster), but he The little princess who was "married by the Ming media" wiped her neck and killed her, why?
Because he is "uncivilized".
Civilization defines the interval in which the particles called "men" and "women" vibrate in time and space. Whether the result is good or not, this is the picture of human life. The human mind, placed in front of the whole world, is The cramped, limited, human beings are willing to live and die in it, though they also long for magic and miracles of salvation. The magic of the past was in the stories and legends, and the magic of the present is in the mobile phone and the laboratory, which is essentially the same. The slight difference is that the women in the story can also build a "herstory" that is on par with history (his-tory) through their own actions, but in the historical memory of the real human civilization process, they are rarely seen. shadow.
In this regard, the film seems to explain the disappearance of women in history: either, the woman who is loved finally returns the world to the man she loves; or, the woman who is desired is destroyed by the instability of desire and emotion itself; The last kind, the unloved woman becomes a celibate queen by "killing" the man who loves her, just like Henry VIII's daughter Elizabeth I. Is the "Queen of Chastity" a memorial to her or a sigh for later generations?
Throughout the entire movie, perhaps the happiest woman is the "virgin child" girl, who should have a good life in her later years.
But virgin birth? Is the Virgin Mary a good home?
Don't we have them too - Huaxu (pregnant by footsteps of giants), An Deng (pregnant by feeling a dragon), Fubao (pregnant by seeing a big electricity), Qingdu (by meeting a red dragon), Hudeng (by meeting a big rainbow) Pregnancy), Xiu Ji (swallowing the pearl and becoming pregnant), Ehuang (feeling the essence of Taibai), Nvshu (feeling the star of Yaoguang)... I just typed these names for a while, because I used the pinyin input method, and there was no one It can be typed directly, but their children—Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong, Emperor, Yao, Shun, Yu, Shaohao, Zhuanxu—are all ready-made entries.
May the world be better? Only women no longer hide.
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