Desires and Demons

Theo 2022-03-22 09:02:38

The film is cleverly interspersed with three black fairy tales, telling a story that love is not controlling, but giving, and people's desires are too inflated and will turn into demons. Fairy tales and dreams in Freudian psychoanalysis have the same meaning: they both build a bridge to the subconscious world through a collection of archetypes, symbols and metaphors, and the viewer can also use symbolic language through experience. Emotions packaged in dreams or fairy tales to achieve a kind of catharsis and balance. Further reading (This film is adapted from the first European fairy tale collection "Five Days Talk". The frame story itself is a fairy tale, and it has some motifs that have appeared in other stories: the princess who does not see a smile, can only marry a certain The curse of the hard-to-find person, the heroine falling asleep because of saving the hero and losing the hero because of other people's tricks, etc. The pregnant slave queen asked the king to tell her a story or kill the child. The king hired ten women to Telling a story for the queen, including Zoza in disguise.) Key line 1 "Every new life needs a life to disappear, and the balance of the world needs to be maintained"

2 "I'm just a poor girl, I don't deserve the honor you bestow"

"Honor? What honor, what drives me is desire", "Don't worry about a future we can't predict"

3 "No One Will Love You Like I Do"

4 "You can't take back what you said, Violet, learn to be patient, my dear child... Maybe God's will is behind this unusual fate"

5 "Every Desire, Every Action Corresponds"

6 "Where is the monster that imprisoned you"

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Tale of Tales quotes

  • Imma: I want to be with my sister.

  • Elias: I like being with him.

    Elias: He's like a brother to me.