"Edward Scissorhands" is the "Other" because he has a pair of veritable scissorhands, but other than that, all parts of his body are almost the same as ordinary people. After he was discovered by AVON sales lady from a remote villa and brought back to his home in the town, Edward, the other, officially began to communicate with ordinary people. With the help of the film, we might as well briefly revisit him. The chronicle of dealings with the "ordinary people" can be roughly divided into three stages:
Stage 1: When Edward first appeared in front of everyone, some people were frightened by his weird scissor hands; There were pauses in exhorting others to stay away from Edward; others found him strange but not hostile; others pitied him, loved him, and grieved for the scissorhands he was born with.
The second stage: Edward began to slowly integrate into the town life. The fear that his pair of scissors brought to everyone was gradually reduced, while the convenience it brought to everyone was increasing day by day, and he was gradually loved by the town residents. , he became an expert in trimming and greening, and then a hairdresser who could cut fashionable hairstyles. He began to gain fame and fortune, and he could go to TV shows politely and humbly, to communicate with the audience, and to accept the audience's opinions. His love, and even a mature aunt gave him a hug, using his cold scissors to cut open her coat, revealing sexy black lace underwear...
Stage 3: Edward's relationship with the townspeople begins to sour and eventually collapses. There are several things in it. The first thing is that he broke free from the entanglement of the wolf-like mature aunt and thought about a strange emotion hidden in his heart. He found that he fell in love with a small town girl. But the girl had a boyfriend, and Edward's behavior aroused her boyfriend's displeasure and began to seek revenge; the second thing, he tried to do something for the beloved girl, and ended up using his own." His sex, his own "specialty", used scissors to pry open the door of others, trying to assist in the theft; the third thing, it was a misunderstanding, he bravely rescued the little boy who was almost hit by a car, but when everyone When he stepped forward to check, he clearly saw that he kept using "scissor hands" to attack the little boy's face (actually, he was just worried about the little boy's safety and wanted to touch his face, but he didn't know the reality of his love for others. It is a very paradoxical thing, and the clever Zizek has pointed this out for us). Later, he killed the boyfriend of the girl he loved. In order to escape, the girl he loved told him to hide in the uninhabited
villa forever and spend the rest of his life.
The chronicle, from the beginning of acceptance, integration, to the harmony and sublimation of mutual relationship, to the final deterioration and collapse, always revolves around the "otherness" of the other, Edward's "Scissorhands" is making a fuss . The townspeople like Edward because of the usefulness of Scissorhands, the townspeople don't like him, and even hunt him down and kill him because of the harm that Scissorhands may bring to the safety of the public (although more often, kindness Edward just wanted to show his friendliness), everything revolves around his special hands, not his own inner essence.
Such an Other, poor Edward, can only continue to prove his usefulness to the majority of people, and can only continue to satisfy the desires of the majority of people, otherwise, once his "Scissorhands" is found to be right Most people are dangerous, they will only be eliminated by ordinary people, and they can only be exiled and imprisoned to a marginal place. It is worth noting that at the end of the movie, the girl carries his broken "scissor hand" Appeared in front of everyone and told everyone that Edward was dead, and the residents of the town dispersed. This is an important ritual. Its function is to completely remove the terrifying "otherness" of the other from the hearts of ordinary people. Only in this way, ordinary people will give up their pursuit of the terrifying other, so that the other can Survive smoothly, as long as he promises not to appear in front of the townspeople again.
At the beginning and end of the movie, the young girl of the past and the old woman today are all thinking about Edward Scissorhands who was confined to the edge of the villa. Some people may think this is very romantic, that this love is very great, very touching, etc., But please don't forget that the greatness of this love is precisely because of the background of the persecution of others by ordinary residents of the small town. Tolerance, acceptance, and even love of weird others may only belong to a small group of people.
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