How it feels to read fairy tales when you grow up

Toney 2022-04-20 09:01:07

I didn't read the book "The Wizard of Oz" when I was a child, but I also read a lot of fairy tales. Watching this movie is like going back to the time of watching a fairy tale, obviously feeling similar moods and emotions. A feeling of nostalgia.

But the perspective of reading fairy tales when you grow up is not the same as when you were a child. It’s okay to keep your brain blank and follow the movie. When you think about it after the end, after thinking about it, some things will still be associated with some metaphors. The gradual enrichment of knowledge reserves makes it no longer possible to feel the beauty and simplicity of fairy tales as simply as a child.

For example, when you see a scarecrow, you think of agriculture, the tin man represents industry, the lion represents nature, and Dorothy represents human beings. Agriculture without wisdom, industry without soul, nature without its majesty, and humanity without a home.

But when I was a child, my views were pure and terrible. I found out that after defeating the evil witch, each got what they wanted, and I was filled with emotion: Sure enough, there is no pie that falls from the sky, and all good things must be obtained through their own efforts. .

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The Wizard of Oz quotes

  • [Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man watch as the Wicked Witch of the West vanishes into a fireball]

    The Scarecrow: I'm not afraid of her! I'll see you get safely to the Wizard now, whether I get a brain or not. Stuff a mattress with me. Ha!

    The Tin Man: I'll see you reach the Wizard, whether I get a heart or not. Beehive, bah! Let her try and make a beehive out of me!

    [snaps his fingers with a clunking sound]

    Dorothy: Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?

    The Scarecrow: I don't see how. You weren't around when I was stuffed and sewn together, were you?

    The Tin Man: And I was standing over there, rusting for the longest time.

    Dorothy: Still, I wish I could remember... but I guess it doesn't matter anyway. We know each other now, don't we?

    The Scarecrow: That's right.

    The Tin Man: We do.

    The Scarecrow: To Oz?

    The Tin Man: To Oz.

  • Dorothy: Goodbye, Tin Man. Oh, don't cry! You'll rust so dreadfully. Here. Here's your oil can.

    [kisses him]

    Dorothy: Goodbye.

    The Tin Man: Now I know I've got a heart, 'cause it's breaking...

    Dorothy: Goodbye, Lion. You know, I know it isn't right, but I'm going to miss the way you used to holler for help before you found your courage.

    The Cowardly Lion: [tearfully] I never would've found it, if it hadn't been for you...

    Dorothy: [to Scarecrow] I think I'll miss you most of all.