It is more like a fairy tale. Just like the youngest and kindest child in the fairy tale gets the help of many elves and finally gets happiness, the poor little Charlie here also realizes his dream with his kindness and love for candy.
From the point of view of art and morality, such a beautiful film, like all fairy tales, is to maintain morality, to maintain goodness and beauty. I always feel that art should be beautiful, it gives us hope and vision, let us The present life is more beautiful. In modern times, the relationship between art and beauty is broken, which is a tragedy.
In fact, this film does not have a particular core theme. Although it has been conveying certain information, it is relatively scattered, probably because there are more issues involved.
Why do the kind and beautiful people in fairy tales represent the youngest child in the disadvantaged family? Is this due to sympathy for the disadvantaged, or are these works trying to give hope to the disadvantaged, or they are not so noble. Like Zhou Xingchi's works, he always describes the process of a small person at the bottom of the society finally growing into a powerful person, so, Ordinary people are willing to watch, like to watch, is this just a kind of catering to the market? From this point of view, fairy tales and Stephen Chow's works are almost similar, except that the protagonists in fairy tales are often kind, sincere, hard-working, and helpful, but not necessarily in Stephen Chow's works. Does such a form of work embody the will of the people and express the voice of the people, or does it paralyze the people, so that the people can be satisfied by watching the story and are willing to be ruled? It seems that the distinction between elite culture and popular culture is not so easy.
Since Charlie was born poor and kind and lovely, then he will be happy in the end. This is the general narrative mode, I just don't know how much it mirrors in real life. But no matter what the reality is, movies are trying to convince people that they always believe that good people are rewarded and that good people will be happy. This is how art plays a role in maintaining social morality.
In addition to telling the audience on the positive side, the same effect can be achieved through the description of the negative teaching materials. In this movie, there are 4 other children who enter Wangka's chocolate factory with Charlie, and these 4 children are negative teaching materials. They are the typical embodiment of all kinds of children's educational ills, a fat boy who is greedy and lazy, a girl who is spoiled by her father and even tells her father "let the time go faster" when she is impatient, a girl who keeps watching Honors and trophies are a utilitarian girl whose ultimate goal is to surpass others, and a arrogant and cold-blooded intellectual boy who has grown up in high technology. These four types, especially in the factory, after Wang Ka taught them all one by one, is telling people that such children are annoying or bad, and it is a failure of education, and let the children know that they can't be like this. , let parents know that such children cannot be educated. In this way, negative teaching materials also work in repairing social morality.
After a day's visit, when Wang Ka made Charlie the successor of his chocolate factory and asked him to leave the family to go to his factory, Charlie, who loves candy, said: "No, I will not leave my family, that is, Use all the chocolate in the world in exchange." It was because of Charlie's reluctance to make a painful decision that Wang Ka began to be confused. He always thought that chocolate was all the meaning. Since he left home to become a confectioner after falling out with his father, he has been relying on it. Feels like making all kinds of chocolates, but now that he has doubts about the meaning of chocolate, Charlie reminds him of his father and family.
The final outcome is this: Wang Ka, who feels very bad, finds Charlie again, and takes Charlie back to visit his father, a child who has been away from the family for many years and returns.
What is it trying to tell us? Love for family and attachment to relatives are placed in a high position in any society, and such a story is to convey such an idea to the audience: ideals and careers are important, but family is more important. It is trying to maintain and restore the traditional family ethics and morality, to further elevate the importance of family to life, and to make people convincing through such stories, so that the audience can see from Charlie and Wang Ka that you can be attached to family. To be happy, take a step back and say that you won't lose your career and ideals because of it.
In addition to what this film conveys, this is a relatively good-looking film, very visually impressive, and the pictures are very beautiful. Especially the chocolate kingdom, the rivers and waterfalls of chocolate, the flowers and trees of chocolate, the palace made of chocolate by the prince of India, the peculiar Orombians and so on.
Charlie also said: "Candy doesn't need meaning, and that's what candy does." To put it this way, art sometimes doesn't need meaning, and that's what art means.
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