Why do we love fairy tales?
There is the purest truth, goodness and beauty in fairy tales. There are unrealistic imaginations in fairy tales. Fairy tales have happy endings that everyone likes.
Let's take a look at this film:
The villain lacks the most basic respect for people from beginning to end. It is not an exaggeration to say that he tramples on human nature, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he feeds the audience.
A serious fairy tale, whether it is the queen in Snow White or the aunt in Cinderella. They will represent pure evil, but their evil follows the rules, has a bottom line, and is evil based on respect for human nature.
What is the purest love?
I would like to ask, if you want to describe the purest love, what does it mean to have a lot of explicit masturbation scenes for the heroine at the beginning to imply desire and dissatisfaction? After a seemingly "romantic" plot, the heroine and her friend's yellow jokes, what are these?
What is the purest truth, goodness and beauty?
Let's take a look at each character.
A Soviet scientist who was undercover in the US military during the Cold War betrayed the cold-blooded US and Russian military purely to save a beautiful intelligent life and provided the greatest technical support.
An ordinary and kind-hearted black elder sister, in order to help her co-workers, she would not hesitate to make possible sacrifices and protect her friends.
A despondent painter, a bald gay cat slave uncle, has a conscience when he is struggling to help the same poor heroine. The cat was killed by a strange life, his arm was scratched, and he was bleeding, but he was still able to express his understanding and forgiveness.
A middle-aged mute woman with dissatisfied desires, who has friends at work and friends at home, falls in love with strange creatures for completely indescribable reasons. In the name of "friends", he did things like "friends with guns".
Where will they end?
The scientist with the purest goal, who provided the most support, received nothing in return, was brutally murdered by the villain and his own country, and had no choice but to die.
The ordinary and kind black eldest sister, with the mentality of helping her friends, got nothing except being threatened by the villain and quarreling with her husband.
The motive of the uncle painter is to follow the trend. Because of injury, he sacrificed a cat and got a little hair growth and some inspiration.
The heroine with the most selfish motives gets everything she can.
Well, now let's repeat it according to the director's routine: this is a fairy tale, this is romance, this is truth, goodness and beauty.
Can you not be nauseous, okay?
It's not a fairy tale, it's not romance, it's not true, good and beautiful.
It is to feed the audience first, and then tell the audience that the person who feeds you is the villain, and finally dies.
But even this death is not the villain. The big villain general is still happily smoking a cigarette and preparing to bully the next little villain.
I feel that this film lacks not only respect for minorities, but even for ordinary human beings.
If you want to reflect the darkness of human nature and society, please don't sell it under the guise of fairy tales with childish plots. Insult the fairy tale, insult the romance, insult the audience.
At best, it's a botched political propaganda film.
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