When I was young, I saw "Roman Holiday", because it was not what I hoped for "the prince and the princess live happily together." I felt very resentful in my heart. I was stubborn when I was a child. things appear in different forms.
There are no princes in adult fairy tales, because adults are little people. The beautiful Princess Anne meets a down-to-earth tabloid reporter, and it starts hilariously. Gregory's attitude is absurd and pitiful, he's a little guy. The two spend a romantic and happy day in the city of Rome, and the storyline develops perfectly and a little bit poignantly. Childhood fairy tales are always close to perfect and unimaginable reunion, but adult fairy tales are always reasonable and helpless.
Gregory did everything he could to take the princess for a day and make her as happy as an ordinary girl. I believe that Gregory will also be like the prince in the fairy tale, go to the jungle to fight the fire dragon, and use pure love to unravel the evil curse of the witch. However, it is not the dragon and the curse that make them unable to live happily together, but the helplessness that only exists in the adult world. I don't think a child will understand this. If you don't believe me, you can ask any child if the princess loves a poor man, can she be with him. The children will tell you that the poor man will answer the king's three questions, or get a magic lamp, and finally marry the princess. In short, the children will have all kinds of perfect imaginations to bring the princess and the poor together. And when the child grows up? He will find it funny, and will feel that a spring dream will always wake up
waiting. That is to say, when you grow up, all the surreal things are just thinking about it, and you will never think about turning it into reality, even if you think about it, people will laugh at you "the toad wants to eat swan meat" ". And you yourself will eventually understand: the result of the chase is to meet the tears that are waiting in front of you.
Adult fairy tales are sweet things put sour things in them, and that little bit of sweetness will sway all the fantasies in your heart, and will raise the colorful blisters that belong to children in your heart. It's just that at this time, you already know that no matter how beautiful the bubbles are, there will be a day when they will be crushed, so you can taste the sourness in the sweetness. So you have to face this ending with the strength that belongs to adults, and bury your own fantasies yourself. Just like the last photo Gregory gave to Princess Anne, at this time he could only hope that he could leave something in the princess's happy memory and not be quickly overwhelmed. And Princess Anne's tearful smile is the sour in Gregory's heart that he loves with hope and despair.
I don't believe that grown up children have no illusions. Yes, you can say that the story is childish, simple, and even boring. But it was originally a kind of fairy tale, a fairy tale for adults, something that you don't need to measure with various terms and rules. Besides being simple and sweet, what else can you ask for in a fairy tale? I think every adult will remember the comfort brought by fairy tale books in childhood. That feeling is actually looming, and it re-touches your aging but not numb heart.
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