The past is the mirror mask of the present. Your current face, behavior, consciousness, and expression can all find evidence and clues in this mirror.
No matter how you look back, when your personal history wakes up in the mirror for the thousandth time,
it calls you back to look and feel, and it will never be the same as last time.
Thank goodness.
Before you came across this article, you had not been influenced by the sloppy reviews that defined "Mirror Mask" as a juvenile science film.
Rare themes, breathtaking imagination, exquisite pictures, and superb light and shadow processing. All make movies no longer simple entertainment. About the communication between the two generations, about growing up, about friendship, about dreams and reality, about our place in the world...
It just tells us to look back at the right time with the way a child grows up. This is a movie that belongs to the adult world.
No matter how many achievements you have, it is worth using this movie as a mirror to look back and have a conversation with your past state of mind.
Fifteen. Helena, the daughter of the circus owner, is eager to break out of the theater world and live in reality.
Hysterically complaining about his parents giving him an actor background and a never-ending virtual career on stage.
"You don't have the ability to deal with reality at all." Helena's mother's words pierced the child's thin and sensitive self-esteem.
She cursed her mother. Refused to go on stage. Sensitive autism. Rebellious and paranoid, he paints his inner impression of reality.
wall. door. ground. Mirror. Anywhere.
The bizarre lines of the black crayon, following the will of her fingers, spread to any place like a creeping tiger with strong vitality.
In the end, what appeared was a world in which even she herself had confused the real and the illusory.
Then, on the day the overworked mother finally fell ill and was wheeled into the operating room,
Helena guiltily pulled away from reality, and fell into the world in her own paintings in a dream that lost her balance.
The dream that Helena entered. It is a city that impresses real life without a horizon.
The princess in the dream world is a carrier that is consistent with Helena's appearance and magnifies Helena's real personality flaws.
Her love and hatred for her mother turned into the Queen of Light and Queen of Darkness in her dream, ruling two kingdoms.
Suddenly one day, the Empress of Light couldn't wake up, the princess ran away from home, and the whole world of Light lost its balance.
Cities are being devoured by shadows. on the verge of extinction.
Helena must find the spell of the "mirror mask", resist the temptation of the dark queen, and overcome the dark and rebellious self in her heart, in
order to maintain the original balance in the world and bring herself back to reality.
Throughout the film, Helena grows up in pain in the puzzling and struggle of life, in the bumpy consciousness and reality.
From the window of the dream world, Helena kept looking at the princess who had escaped into the real world.
She stood in the dream and yelled at the real world: NO! that's not me! that's not me!
Yes. That's not Helena right now. That was the look she met with her willful past when she turned back.
It's Helena's circus career confronting the real world. It's also a contest between her dream life and her ability to cope with reality.
"You're in one of the other situations in your life to avoid." The masked man in the dream described her situation to Helena.
The words of the masked man cut through the entire film. Separate reality from dream.
Brings Helena into a forced task of constantly confronting the past, constantly dealing with reality, and constantly self-reflection.
What I want to praise is that the dream world that was cut open was realized by the director's infinitely indulgent imagination!
In the confusion of light and shadow, the extravagant CG is used smartly and appropriately, such as wild birds and beasts, monsters with human head and cat body, flying books, one-eyed spiders, people with masks talking and walking, and slow-reflecting spell guardians Gods use their grotesque but not terrifying appearances, cute and eccentric but not bitter and mean habits, to express the different qualities of human beings in the real world.
In the process of looking for the "mirror mask", Helena
learned how to get along with various monsters of character and the difficulty of coping with reality.
He also tolerated the parentage given to him by his parents who worked hard to run the circus. In exchange for a calm and warm face that has experienced the tempering of the mind.
ending. always nice.
It's like a private history in our memories.
Mistakes and incomprehensibility piled up in a crevice will be remembered years or decades after they were thought to be forgotten, with nowhere to hide. We can only re-address the moods and expressions that these memories bring years later. It's like watching someone else's drama from the latitude of another world. After many years of changing circumstances, we can truly reap the precious growth that history has given us from the perspective of a third party.
Then, we will use the peaceful and warm faces and expressions created by these memories to lightly understand:
——The recognition of the past is the interpretation of the present.
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