When watching "Edward Scissorhands", I unconsciously compared it with "Rejuvenation", which is too similar. Whether it is the narrative method, rhythm, atmosphere, sense of space, contingency, or the elements in it: getting along with people, poignant and deformed love..., it is exactly the same, so I think "Rejuvenation" is a replica of "Scissorhands" and plagiarism. However, in the handling of the story, "Edward Scissorhands" undoubtedly handles better, perhaps because of the powerlessness of language, so in Edward Scissorhands' taciturn communication with others, it is easier for us to penetrate into his heart, so as to understand the whole From the level of human nature, we should understand the barriers of human social communication and understanding and the confusion of human nature. On the other hand, "Rejuvenation" has lost its legendary and magical colors. It is undoubtedly a purer love movie than "Edward Scissorhands". The reason why it is pure is that the love in it expresses everything. Again and again, nothing else.
For me, the attraction of Edward Scissorhands is not in its belated love, poignant and sentimental, its power is not in the contagiousness and compassion that poignant love brings to people, it may be It lies in the loneliness and simplicity of having a pair of scissors. Compared with Benjamin, Edward can never be like him, can be a part of this complex group society - a person who can think independently, can distinguish right from wrong, distinguish between morality and evil, a person who can quickly integrate into the life around him Man, in simple terms, Edward cannot "live" like a man.
However, in the movie, the director gave Edward's life a great meaning. Edward was involved in a new and complex human society from an isolated world. He experienced suspicion, trust, love, news in taciturn. Pay attention, even he once had the plan to start a business under the planning of others---a beauty salon. However, he is so out of tune with this world. When I saw him carefully picking up the green beans with his scissors; when I saw him in the room, he became the object of a bewitching woman and fled in panic. ; when I saw him angrily cutting his white shirt to shreds, destroying dinosaur-shaped bonsai, cars, and then walking tremblingly down the dark streets with a lonely background; when I saw When Zhan Mei beat him with his fist, and when he pierced Zhan Mei's chest with scissors in order to defend the goddess in his heart, my heart ached, this innocent child has no grudges in his heart, he does not belong to this complex In the world, he is only suitable for that side of the castle, cropping in the desolation, remembering the poems his father recited in his memories, or fantasizing about human life in the few pictures.
By sorting out the complicated relationships in the director's films, it is not difficult to extract three relationships: First, Peg treated Edward like an ordinary person, giving him great care and encouragement; Edward's hazy, cautious love; what's left in the end is the curiosity and suspicion of the neighborhood, and the resistance and hostility of Jamie. The former two and the latter constitute an exclusive relationship with Edward as the core. Obviously, in this wrestling that everyone did not realize, the latter became the winner, and the final outcome was that Edward returned to the castle, and from then on the sky began to fall in pieces of missing snowflakes. The director is borrowing Edward's life, the plight of pure life into the current human life, showing the complexity of human nature. In such a small space, the seven deadly sins of human beings are arrogance, jealousy, rage, laziness, greed, The gluttony and lust are analyzed one by one, and the edges and corners are revealed. Why is the purer life, the more we can't exist in our quiet life, or, in other words, if it does not integrate with us, why is kindness and pure love no match? Resistance from the outside world? We never thought about it.
Lonely than fireworks, not a life as pure as Edward, but us. We live in a world full of people, forced to wear false masks, speak false words, hurt others out of curiosity and jealousy, have we ever walked into the hearts of a certain group of people? Have we ever abandoned all our skin color, creed, and class estrangement, and unabashedly displayed our hearts and embraced each other? On one lonely night after another, no matter how brilliant the moon is, all we can embrace is our own trembling body, perhaps pity our loneliness towards the moon when the last drop of interest is left.
This world is only your own, not only Edward, this is the common proposition of our existence.
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