This Italian "Story of the Story" is a dark fairy tale with a strong taste combining the European medieval court texture and Gothic style. These heavy-handed and brutal versions of European stories have a long history. The film is also based on the 17th century story collection "Five Days Talk", and three fairy tales are intercepted.
The first is about parent-child conflict. The infertile king and his wife believed in the recipe that the wizard killed the sea monster and could get pregnant by eating its heart. The price of getting the sea monster's heart was the death of the king. The queen sat in the white dining room and gnawed repeatedly The red heart of the sea monster exchanged for the death of the king, this woman who knew only her son but not her husband, accompanied by the maid and gave birth to twin sons at the same time, almost crazy trying to stop the friendship between the two boys, obsessed. The desire for control leads to parent-child conflict, and the classic Oedipus problem resurfaces—when the child becomes an independent adult, it means the establishment of a new model between the child and the parent, and the parent is not aware of the new model. Establishment, blind attachment to the old model, or even clinging to the control of children, will eventually lead to the tragedy of killing one’s father and one’s mother.
The second is about the distortion of desire. The carnal king is greedy for the singing of the old woman. He thinks it is a beautiful girl, but he does not know that it is two old sisters with loose skin and flesh. Under the pursuit of the king, the sister touches He got on the king's bed, but when the king found out the real face of his sister, he threw her down from the upstairs mercilessly. The king's eyes were always ugly and unforgivable, until the sister was transformed into a young girl by black magic, and he got the king again. When the younger sister saw her sister's return to youth, her jealousy and desire to return to youth could not be suppressed. When she learned the lie that skinning can make her younger, the younger sister gladly asked someone to help her skin.
The third one is about male power violence. The dark fairy tale must be that the prince and the princess are not destined to be together. The king used his blood to raise a flea, and this flea is not worthy of the emperor's grace. After his death, the king left the skin as the princess' hydrangea. In the end, the savage who drank blood became the husband of the princess. The princess under the male authority did not have the right to love freely. , and when he returned to the king with his husband's head, he completed his challenge to male authority.
The scene of this highly visual film is like a painting, such as the small section of the twins at the bottom of the lake, any clip can be made into an oil painting. There is absolutely no need to try to understand this movie, just treat it as a painting and feel it quietly.
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