I used to go to sleep at night
So thankful for my simple life
Up at all the stars I would be gazing
An ordinary girl it seems
Whenever the night comes, it is always easy to think too much. The problem of thinking too much is that you have read too little. Sometimes thinking too much is not a bad thing, at least it is satisfied on the level of imagination.
In the late 1980s, on the day before "March 8th Women's Day", a festival "March 7th Girls' Day", which was defined as showing the style of college girls, was born. Since then, "Girls' Day" has become There are different festivals for girls. As for the "Boys' Day", there are different opinions. There is no special festival due to too many sayings. But it doesn't matter, as long as you want, every day can be a festival. It's as if every girl is actually a princess if you want to believe it.
I watched a movie a few days ago. It was the movie "The Little Princess" directed by Alfonso Cuaron in 1995. This film was adapted from Burnett's novel "The Little Princess" of the same name. In 1993, Xiulan Temple also Participated in a film of the same name "Little Princess", the main lines of the two films are actually similar. The ending of the original book seems to be more tragic, but the story of the movie is better.
The story tells the story of Sarah, who originally lived a happy and beautiful life with her father, Colonel Crewe. Although her mother died prematurely, her father's love made her life full of fairy tales. Until the outbreak of the war and before going to the battlefield, Colonel Crewe had to send Sarah to the famous Mitchon Girls' School in New York. In order to make her daughter's life worry-free, he paid a large sum of money to Mrs. Mitcheon. This generous remuneration allows Sarah to continue to be the little princess in this school, and she is still the innocent and lively Sarah with a whimsical little story. She gets along well with everyone at school, but there are unforeseen circumstances, she is enjoying a birthday party on her birthday, but news of her father's death suddenly came from the front line, all property was confiscated, and Sarah was gone With financial support, Mrs. Mitchell began to expose her greedy and snobbish nature. Sarah's life plummeted. She became a servant in the school, began to trade labor for room and board, changed rooms, and lived in a messy attic. Qi serves the ladies together. The ending of the story is good, and I won't do too much spoilers here. What struck me the most was the part where Sarah and Mrs Mitchell argued.
Mitchell: You should understand that real life is not your fantasy story, it's a cruel and dirty world, our responsibility is to do the best we can, not to indulge in stupid fantasies, but to make ourselves useful people , understand what I said?
Sarah: Yes, ma'am, but I don't believe it. I'm a princess, all girls are, even if they live in tiny attics, even if they're shabby, even if they're not pretty or smart or young, they're princesses, we are all. Didn't your father tell you, didn't he?
The contradiction between Sarah and Mitchell makes the conflict in the whole film more and more real. The two of them represent two different types of people in life, one is a beautiful imagination and the other is a cruel reality. I've watched that debate a dozen times. After all, who is not tormented by this kind of conflicting heart every day? There is hope in the heart, but it is often defeated by reality.
beautiful imagination
In the whole film, what remains unchanged is Sarah, who is always full of imagination, innocent and lively, and has a strong inner light. I really envy Sarah so much, this is my father's little lover (my father and I are estimated to have been divorced in our last life). There is a light of love in the eyes, and the actor's acting skills are so good.
The kind of child who grew up in the river of love was well protected and educated by his father since childhood, so when facing Mitchell, he dared to resist and said with confidence, "Your Didn't your father tell you, didn't he?" Because he has lived in various fairy tales since he was a child, he is very imaginative in his heart. When he hears and sees some stories, he always imagines a happy one. ending, instead of sticking to the old rules, she will encourage, hug and comfort the friends in this school, she is a light in the life of the friends in the old castle school full of old rules. Qi, light up the freckled girl, light up Mitchell's sister, light up the flower girl on the street...
She always has all kinds of beautiful stories, and she endows the original sad stories with her own imagination, making them beautiful and attractive. She gave the maid Betsy yellow shoes, she comforted the crybaby, and after becoming a maid, she encouraged Emilia (Mitchell's sister) to bravely pursue true love...
She has a fearless heart, she dares to resist what ordinary people can't resist, and bravely resists Mitchell. Kind of something to make him seem real." Her imagination is beautiful, and behind the beautiful imagination is the expectation of an innocent girl who is ignorant of the world.
Because friends organized a group to help Sarah get the necklace back, it was discovered by Mrs. Mitchell. Mitchell called the police to arrest Sarah. The police came, and Sarah, who was locked in the attic, ran away in the rainy night. This scene really scared me to death, Sarah How dare you pull! Torrential rain, thunder, lightning, very thin planks, she just walked by. It's incredible, strong, brave Sarah who has done a lot of things that many of us are afraid to do in our hearts. Did she succeed in the end? Of course it succeeded, after all, it is the protagonist of the story.
After the beautiful imagination, many times, we have to face the cruel reality, because maybe we are not Sarah, it is very likely that we are all Mitchell.
brutal reality
In the film, to be honest, Mrs. Mitchell can't be hated, and certainly not loved. But she happens to represent the cruel reality in this society.
When I first saw Mitchell, I felt that she was a vicious witch, or the princess' stepmother, but after reading it, I realized that this is actually the reality.
Because Sarah's father, Colonel Crewe, said it's okay, we're not short of money, everything is best for my daughter, she deserves it. Mitchell arranged the best room for Sarah in the face of money, and even ignored the school rules and let Sarah secretly wear a necklace from her father. When looking at the face of money, everything becomes very easy to talk about.
She appeared as a very strict, formalized, hard-working lady of high society. Seriously, the kids in the school are afraid of her, but in fact she is not bad, she just loves money, who doesn't love money? When the news of Captain Crewe's death and bankruptcy came, it was not surprising that she made Sarah a maid. After all, there is no need to spend money on what to eat, wear, drink, and learn here. Besides, this is herself. The money she paid in advance, and she couldn't get it back when the bill was settled at the end of the month. Of course, she needed something else to mortgage. It may seem cruel, but it is the reality. When you put yourself into Sarah, of course it feels terrible, and when you put yourself into Mitchell, you feel terrible too, you spend a lot of money for someone, like you Borrowing a lot of money and then telling you he has no money to pay back is how Mitchell felt when she learned that Sarah was an orphan. Another thing that made me feel like Mitchell was realistic was that I actually had empathy for her at some point. When Sarah asked, "Didn't your father tell you? Didn't he?" I actually wanted to cry, not everyone's father loves his children as unconditionally as Sarah's, and gives fairytale-like situational growth.
Mitchell's story is not described too much here. The act of closing the attic door and wiping tears made me think that this person must be a person with a story. After the hardships of life and the beatings of life, it becomes clearer. Know what you want. Maybe at a certain moment, she also wanted to live like a little princess like Sarah, but the society and reality gave her a severe beating, telling her that she couldn't. Money, status and authority are what she should want now. It would be abnormal if Mitchell was so nice to Sarah after her family went bankrupt.
You see, sometimes, ideals and reality are not the same, not everyone is Sarah, and life is not all movies or stories.
Every girl can be a princess. As long as you believe in it, every girl must recognize life. The most commendable thing is to live with expectation after recognizing life. I watched the movie "Little Princess" with my sister. She told me that she also watched the original "Little Princess" and was very afraid that Sarah's father would die. Fortunately, the movie was a Happy ending, and my father was In the end, when Sarah was about to be taken away by the police, her memory suddenly recovered and saved Sarah. Mitchell became a chimney cleaner. Sarah Becky and Crewe went home and lived happily together. Mitchell's school Also renamed, with a better principal. Everything is going in a good direction. As long as you are willing to believe it, but many times you will not believe it, and some people are born with a sense of insecurity. (Yes, I am talking about myself) But life still has to be lived.
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