This movie is full of "maternal love supremacy", "racial otherness" , and " fantastic conjectures about minority ethnic culture" . It simply puts "Western centrism" and "maternal love mythology" on the face. It is not only full of malice, but also makes · People · Nausea · Nausea.
I just finished watching it last night and watched it with my roommate. It made me angry. I am writing these words on my anger. It is very likely to be biased. I beg you to treat it only as a point of view, a completely personal impression.
I have always known Disney's style of instilling values by "selling dog meat with sheep's heads". Movies are a tool for spreading ideology, and Disney animations are the mainstay of cultural output. As long as it doesn't go too far, I can accept it. But this one is disgusting. I can understand that it wants to tell a story about "maternal love will overcome racial differences", but the three levels of "maternal love", "racial differences", and "how maternal love overcomes racial differences" are extremely horrible and incomparable. Gagging.
Let's talk about "maternal love" first. The "maternal love" in this movie is mythically set extremely thin, and all the themes are carried by Marie Fissen alone.
In this movie, Marie Fissen is a machine that pays maternal love: I love Aurora, and I compromise and hide myself for her; I see those "innocent children" in my race, and I am willing to do it for them. Fighting and attacking humans; on the battlefield, I saw Aurora, and I didn’t think about anything anymore. She sheltered her from the wind and rain and reached a reconciliation between the two races; the director finally gave her a child of Marlene Fissen and the dark night race. The pictures of our happy flying are full of irony effects, and you never thought of them on the battlefield.
What makes Marifelsen's dedication seem particularly brainless is the response of others. Until the truth was revealed, Aurora believed in "cursing" Mary Fissen, and going to find her in the forest only believed that "she will look at my face to lift the curse."
Compared to the other mother-child relationship in the play, it is more laughable. The emotional connection between the prince and the queen is terrible. Facing the mother who was turned into a goat, the prince did not express any other expressions except for being surprised. I can't believe that just based on the performance in this movie, maternal love really has the power of "overcoming racial contradictions". After all, it makes the prince sad.
Any emotional relationship is two-way. The promotion of maternal love is to make children realize its greatness. This film only talks about the mother's contribution, just like telling the story of a modern and contemporary "twenty-four filial mother" , but does not talk about the gratitude and return of any child. I can hardly imagine what the young children who have not been involved in the world will think after watching this movie, is "Mom loves me very much, and I want to thank my mother for her contribution" or "Why can't my mother give everything for me like Marie Fissen" ?".
Let's talk about "racial differences", which caught our attention from the beginning, and it was the setting of "Dark Night Race". If it weren’t shooting the dark night race, it gave so many close-ups of Asian and African faces , set up so disgusting "breast slap", "smearing color" , and the "poisonous gas in the church" and "intoxicated murderers". , "The night races bow their heads to Aurora and Marlene Fissen" and other symbolic plots, I don't even think about whether it is full of racial hints.
Race war here is represented by "human slaughter of elves" and "war between humans and night race".
The elves in the forest are a group of slaughtered creatures . They didn't even have the resistance of the night tribe (in terms of thought or action), so they were caught for experimentation and slaughtered by poisonous gas. In contrast, the role of the executioner-like female officer . She uses massacre as art and plays the piano to release poison. I can understand the purpose of being a children's film that tries to moderate the tragic scene. The question is, is there any effect? I just think that she completely enjoys the process of discharging poison gas from start to finish, just like a cold-blooded killing machine, which is creepy.
The inventor of the murder weapon is even more ridiculous. He was an elf who was brainwashed by the queen. He tirelessly invented the weapon to kill the elf and used it to kill an elf. Until Aurora woke up, it was an elf, it suddenly turned back, and its conscience discovered it. The question is, does the queen show any "mind control" witchcraft abilities in this movie? Is she an ordinary human? At the beginning, I saw it as a betrayer of the elven race. After reading it, I found out that this is a wonderful story about "non-my race, their hearts must be different" . Even if you work diligently to help me, I don't believe you. I know that as long as you realize that you are an elf (not a human), you will still betray us and return to your place.
It is ridiculous that the most logical and self-consistent part of the whole movie turned out to be the villain queen. She launched wars and genocide, but her blackening was reasonable: her brother was killed by elves, her kingdom was overthrown by angry and fearful people, she was forced to marry the king, and she was dedicated to restoring the pure rule of mankind. It is perfectly reasonable for her to start a race war, but what will happen to her? Marie Fissen turned her into a goat because she hated horns.
What is this? Turning a cold, elegant, calm and witty villain into a harlequin, her tragic childhood has not been resolved, and her horror ambitions are not criticized. Those people who hated Marie Fissen because of their fear went to the wedding happily at the end. It’s like saying that although our people hate you, we are just blinded by such a bad person. Now that the bad guys are gone, we tolerate you and accept you, you should not blame us. From the beginning to the end, no one stood up for Mary Fissen, and there was no public mood change or expression of regret. It was simply a group of plot machines with no face.
The dark night tribe is like this: they are powerful and sparsely populated elves, and their culture conforms to the usual Western imagination of Eastern culture: barbaric, uncivilized, crazy, smeared with color, and the totem is a phoenix. They have black or yellow faces, but they have been completely excluded from "humans". They are another kind of ambitious creatures that are malicious to "humans" and are ready to rebel. They are overwhelmingly occupied by whites. Most of the human inhabitants are very different (at least you didn't give the ordinary people close-ups of various skin colors), and also very different from the gentle, natural, and forest elves. I really don't understand. You want to set up a kind of rebellious elves. Why do you have to give them "faces of Asian and African descent" and give them so many close-ups?
This war is like this: the night races have been trapped in a small land for a long time, and one day they discovered that they had a fellow clan (Marlene Fissen) who not only lived well outside, And also entangled with the humans who expelled them. Not only that, the injured Marlene Fissen also made them discover that humans had created weapons against them, so they were angry and frightened, and wanted to regain their living space. Marlene Fissen has proved that the Night Race can survive outside with their own strength, why can't we?
The reason for the dark night tribe to launch the war is reasonable and reasonable, whether it is deep-seated (long-term oppression) or direct fuse (human beings have already made weapons and are aggressive). But what about the result of the war?
The scene that ignited me the most was that Malin Fissen rescued Aurora. Aurora stood on the boulder. Malin Fissen stood behind her like her patron and turned into a background board. The dark night clansmen bowed their heads to them Chen Chen. What is this? You are the oppressed, and you were moved by the mother-daughter friendship between the leaders inexplicably, moved by the forgiveness and tolerance of the persecutors, tamed and assimilated, and happily attended the wedding, and returned comfortably and sullenly. Go to your own territory and cherish this supreme and absolutely correct "peace"?
The most ridiculous thing is that this kind of peace started when the prince put down his sword. The perpetrator changed his face and changed from a queen to a prince. He said nothing about the cruelty in the past, without any regrets, and pretended to express tolerance and understanding. You will understand and long live peace. Have you been oppressed for hundreds of years and eaten by dogs? Are your compatriots killed by human guns dead in vain? What is your tragic war? I don't think this is peace, I think it is assimilation and subordination.
Finally, let's talk about the issue of "how maternal love can overcome racial conflicts". As mentioned earlier, its maternal love is weak, and its racial conflicts are full of Western centrism. The film’s elimination of conflict is also astounding.
Princess Aurora, as the queen connecting elves and humans, did not show any effort to fight for this, and was weak and cumbersome from beginning to end. What is Aurora like? She hated the rules of the court, but she still put on the queen’s clothes and would only complain to the prince; in the conflict between Marie Fessen and the queen, she would only dryly discourage Marie Fessen from calming down; even she discovered a conspiracy To rescue the elves in the church, it was the crow that was also the attendant of Mariefsen who opened the door.
The Princess addition to the United States, the United States and the United States , which led the way Mary fussen died once, did not make any contribution, just as the movie's agents decades ago vases care of the household waste, but the actor became Marlene fussen it , let People are breathtaking. Also fighting for the peace of the two races, the prince also said to her, "I love your natural appearance, and there is no need to compromise for the court" (to the effect), and the king was stabbed by a shuttle. A princess is not as good as two male characters. I really don’t know where this "female movie" and "female" have gone?
To sum up, it is:
As a children’s movie, it stands entirely on the white side, and distorts and distorts the Asian-African minorities. I don’t know how a child who has been instilled in this way of thinking from an early age can believe that no matter what the skin color, we are all. Human beings have the same love, hatred and value;
As a children's film, it advocates "no cost" and "supreme" peace, avoiding condemnation, repentance, communication and dialogue, only talking about empty justice, ignoring justice and pain;
As a children’s film, its views on women and emotions are extremely distorted. Girls can always be silly and sweet. Even if they become a queen, they don’t have to take responsibility. The mother only needs to pay, even if there is no return; it does not show any "independent love". , "Love each other" theme.
I did watch it as a children's movie, and that's why I was particularly angry when I watched it.
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