. Don't mention "The Little Match Girl" to me.
You are still at the stage of "Little Tadpoles Looking for Mother".
Today, I learned about the high-quality
Italian fairy tale
"The Story of the Story" through a film.
The adaptation of the Italian fairy tale, directed by Matteo Galloni,
was shortlisted for the 68th Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
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Fairy tales are generally beautiful, giving people beauty and hope, such as the little girl selling matches. The light from the imaginary matches makes people feel warm and
the world is in balance.
"The Story of the Story" is obvious No, this should be an adult fairy tale for adults:
the world is always looking for balance, and if you gain it, you lose it
. The film has two tightrope walks, which also implies balance.
The first time was the little handsome guy in the circus who rescued the princess, put up a wire on the cliff, followed the wire, and carried the princess out of the monster's cave. The little handsome guy is tremblingly carrying the princess on his back, and there is a cliff below, which also means that it is rare to run the world to balance.
The second time is when the princess is crowned king at the end of the film, Elias also inherits the throne, the younger Queen Dora also restores the old woman's original appearance, and the world returns to a new round of balance.
A balanced world is the most beautiful, but in a short time
Dora became a young queen and invited her sister to a party. The joy at the banquet was instantly replaced by her sister's unbalanced mentality, which was then stripped of her flesh and blood.
After the princess was rescued by the circus, everyone was very happy and was instantly killed by monsters.
At the end of the film, a new round of balance is formed. The princess is crowned, the old woman is restored to her original appearance, and Elias is on the throne. Who knows how long this balance will last?
So what is it that is disrupting the balance of the world?
The queen caused a series of tragedies because of her love for her children.
Because the king loves fleas, his daughter married a monster. The
lecherous king is because he loves beautiful women. Being deceived by the old woman
is love and desire. The stronger the love, the greater the damage, the greater the desire, and the more sacrifices!
The queen was indifferent to the death of the king, caught in the love of Elias, unable to extricate herself. The film shows the queen chasing Elias in the labyrinth. In the end, Elias disappeared and she was trapped, which also meant that she was lost in her self-imagined love, and her love was only selfish possession.
The king loves fleas and feeds them with his own blood, but does not care about the happiness of his daughters, his love is a perverted love.
The lecherous king loves beauty, and his love is unbridled love.
The old woman wanted to live a good life, but by cheating, it didn't end well in the end.
The one who destroys himself is often his favorite
queen who loves Elias, who is stabbed to death by Elias, the
king who loves beauty, who is deceived by the old woman, the
monster who loves the princess, and who is killed by the princess. The
old woman wants to live a good life , and paid a heavy price.
The film structure
The film consists of three seemingly unrelated kingdom stories consisting
of a queen who loves children, an old lady and sister, and a king who keeps fleas
[The Queen's Story] The
queen and the king are distressed because they have no children, and the wizard tells:
The world is in balance, When a new life arrives, another leaves.
The queen said she could give everything for her children. The king killed the sea monster according to the wizard's instructions, and sacrificed his own life. The queen took out the sea monster's heart, cooked it by the virgin and ate it, and the queen and the virgin each gave birth to a son: Elias and Jonah. The amazing thing is that they look like twins, and when they grow up, they are like brothers.
The queen loves her children very much, and does not want Elias to be so close to the son of a maid, trying to separate the two, preventing the failed attempt to assassinate Jonah.
Jonah fled to the deep mountains, and before leaving, told Elias that the spring beside the tree represented his life.
Shortly after Jonah left, the spring water turned to blood, and Elias and his mother left without saying goodbye to go to find Jonah.
The queen can't find Elias and seeks the help of a wizard. The sorcerer told:
The stronger the desire, the greater the effort.
The queen was willing to give everything for Elias, turned into a monster, and came to the deep mountain to kill Jonah. When Jonah's life was hanging by a thread, Elias appeared. The queen who turned into a monster couldn't bear to hurt Elias, but was stabbed to death by Elias.
[Old Lady Sisters]
Dora and Emma are a pair of old lady sisters who depend on each other for life, but have an angelic voice. Their king was very lecherous, and was attracted by Dora's voice, thinking she was a beautiful girl. Dora seduces the king step by step. Dora glued fake breasts to herself and tightened her loose skin, and had a tryst with the king at night. After dawn, the king found out that it was an old woman who slept with him all night, and threw the old woman off the cliff.
Dora survived and was rescued by a witch who drank her milk and turned into a young beauty. After the king hunted and found it, he brought the young Dora back to the palace and was crowned queen.
Dora's sister saw that her sister was getting younger, and her heart was extremely unbalanced, and she also hoped to be young and entangled with Dora. Dora was in a hurry and said that she had been skinned.
The strong desire made Emma lose her mind, foolishly believed her sister's words, and was stripped of blood.
[The king who keeps fleas] The
king treats fleas as pets. Fleas are like human desires. The more they keep, the bigger they become, and they become giant monsters.
The princess was not satisfied with the plain life inside the palace walls. The king didn't want his daughter to leave him so early, so he thought of a ridiculous way to choose a husband for his daughter. After the giant flea dies, the skin is peeled off, and whoever can guess what it is will marry the princess to whom.
Unfortunately, being guessed right by a mountain monster, the princess was carried by the monster into a cave on a deep mountain cliff. The princess envisages escaping. The princess was finally rescued by the circus. After the monster found it, she killed all the staff of the circus. After the princess got the monster's forgiveness, she took the opportunity to kill the monster, cut off its head, and took it back to the castle.
[Ending]
The fate of the princess herself, she was crowned king. The three heads of state gathered together to celebrate, King Elias, the lecherous king and his wife, the camera switched to a circus member walking a tightrope above the castle, Queen Dora glanced at it, and suddenly she changed back to her original appearance, the world back to balance.
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