Roughly brushed everyone's ratings and comments on this film. It is undeniable that the film has illogical omissions in the design of the storyline... But in my standards, films above the benchmark are worth watching, not to mention that it is a film that adults and children can enjoy together. The fairy tale...even if it's not perfect, it still makes some points worth thinking about:
01 Childhood Creativity
We are sad, but we try our best to restrain ourselves and maintain normality in the eyes of everyone, which is the best posture we think. Clara's father was like that, and most of us grew up like that. We only focus on the trivialities of reality, and no longer have the once interesting childlike innocence and novel vision of things. This is not wrong, because the reality is cruel, we must first learn to survive. ...but I'm still greedy and want to keep a curious childlike innocence, even though my creativity has degenerated to the point where it's horrible...
02 Some locks are harder to open than others
At first, Clara couldn't get out of the haze of her mother's death, and even took anger at her father. Among the children, she is most similar to her mother, so the mother guessed Clara's reluctance to her before she died... So she left him a key that could open the lock of her own heart, when she returned from the four kingdoms. When they met their father again at the Christmas party, the father and daughter finally opened their hearts and danced affectionately. Maybe that's what this story is telling us, we are often trapped in the cage of our thoughts, but one day we will open it up and become enlightened...
Postscript: 3?, plus 1? gives feelings. In my childhood memory, there were always a few Nutcracker soldiers on the bedside table... Although they were given to children by my mother, I still like them so much, so far... Queen Jiang's clown entourage I think of the Chishen doll that my best friend gave me on my birthday one year... She is still standing in front of my mother's desk...
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