?️ "Love Fairy Tale/Ever After" (French version of Cinderella)
In fairy tales, persistence will have results, good people will have good rewards, people who love each other will be together, misunderstandings will always be resolved, the truth will be revealed, and misplaced lives will eventually recover. The keynote of marriage is not firewood, rice, oil, salt and dross, but happiness. Happy and warm. This is why the genre of fairy tales is enduring and attracts adults and children to yearn for it. The indifference and coldness of reality make people need fairy tales to escape and comfort themselves. It is a haven and a utopia.
This version of Cinderella was produced in 1998. The French literature, art and romance in the film are at a glance. At the same time, it is more realistic than the previous fairy tales. This Cinderella won the prince's favor with her freedom, boldness and full of passion without relying on crystal slippers. They also had the mistrust that will inevitably occur between lovers, and finally they were able to break their emotions in the entanglement and run towards each other together. Although the ending is still beautiful and full of fairy tale filters, this Cinderella is more in line with Disney's positioning of "strong, brave, benevolent and kind" than the love of defeating evil forces by magic.
When I was a child, I consciously brought into the protagonist a fairy tale. After the age of 25, I gradually understood the character motivation of the villain. The stepmother was born in a noble family and had a noble blood. After her husband died, she chose to commit herself to Cinderella's father. The Cinderella family is just a country nouveau riche, similar to a country squire, and is considered affluent in the local area, but it is still far from the wealthy aristocrats in terms of money and status. Combined with the background of the times, her arrogant aristocratic genes made her essentially never identify herself as the same class as the Cinderella family, and choosing to combine is just a temporary springboard under the predicament. Therefore, she is destined to be bad to Cinderella, and she is destined to regard wealth as her fate, because since she chose to remarry, she has done a good job of relying on long-term meal tickets to build her own daughter, and then marrying the nobles and returning to the class. Therefore, due to such class considerations, she could never be in the family with Cinderella, regardless of whether she was malicious or not.
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