Likewise, for young audiences, this film is undoubtedly unsuitable. This can be seen by comparing it with The Chronicles of Narnia. The magical fairy tale scenes in the former are few and far between, and the techniques are light and more metaphorical. For example, Giant Troll is undoubtedly the incarnation of Janice, and the big bird yelling about dead meat is the two boys who often bully Jess in the school. , And so on, and all these monsters and trolls are all from the wide open mind of Jess and Leslie, they created a new world in their minds, not that the world really exists in the form of an entity . The legendary world in "Narnia" is a real and true legendary world, in which both good and evil sides are constantly competing. The children enter that world through the closet by mistake, which is an exploration. It is an adventure. In this adventure, the children overcome their weaknesses, bravely promote justice, and gain growth, while the children as the audience experience the fantasy visual journey, while subtly gaining goodness. The lessons of evil. So, "Narnia" is indeed for children, but Terabithia is not exactly. (Of course, I have a problem with the film "Narnia", poor CS Lewis...)
In short, Terabithia is really not a pleasing film. Its narration of the theme and the description of various emotions are implicit and introverted. It can only be meaningful and aftertaste, but this is why I like it. It is more superficial. Harry Potter is much better, and it also changed my understanding of old American movies, 囧-,-There is one thing I want to talk about especially, Terabithia's meaning for adults. It is undeniable that when I watched Leslie immersed in fantasy and listened to her saying Terabithians, dark master, etc., I felt a little discomfort. On the contrary, it resonated with Jess's dumb cross-examination, because surely, it was just an The old forest, where are the demons and ghosts—so I suddenly realized that we, like Jess, are all closed-minded poor people. We don’t recognize the existence of those free fantasy, and we are not accustomed to putting us in Looking at the world from another perspective, we have become too dependent on reason and rules under the bad thinking accumulated over the years, and have become indifferent to the beautiful imagination, even mocking and disgusting it. And another product derived from this malaise is a large number of visual blockbusters-because modern people are not used to relying on the soul to imagine, relying on the soul to experience, so we become dependent on vision, as if only relying on magnificent scenes, Perfect computer animation, that fantasy world can be felt and understood, how sad it is, this is the degeneration and regression of the human mind! Therefore, although Jess in the film was suppressed by the people around (both from famiy and school), which led to an inner closure, we modern people became lazy and numb because of the suppression of another thing. Therefore, what Leslie wants to awaken is not just Jess, what she wants to awaken is all the fallen humans who have lost the wings of imagination-her own Terabithia can be created on her own, so long as you keep your mind wide open!
It’s very interesting that Leslie is not a Christian, even though I look at her like an angel, and her death was so sudden and peaceful. To be honest, I didn’t feel much sadness, but felt so natural. , Her coming, her quietly leaving, everything is illusory and true, she herself is the bridge connecting fantasy and reality, she blurs reality and what is above reality, so she also blurs death and life—— She is indeed dead in the popular sense, physically dead, but as long as Terabithia is alive, she is still alive. The world she really lives in is not this immovable and impersonal world. She lives in Terabithia, and the gratifying thing is ( This is also one of the reasons why this film is not sad) Jess has also undergone transformation after Leslie's departure. He can create his own world independently, and he has grown up, albeit not in a worldly sense.
In addition, I really like the natural landscape in the film. In the whole film, only the museum section has some shots of the city. Seeing those high-rise buildings and seeing the busy street scenes, I don’t know why I suddenly feel like the space in my life. So small, I long for my Terabithia.
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