This is a fantasy work, but behind the beauty is Lars Holstrom's attitude and talk about race, women, good and evil.
Race: In the film, there are four main black people, the opening nanny, the mysterious one-eyed uncle, the dancer who plays Clara's mother, and the loyal guard. These super-good incarnations are all intentional by the director. Whites can be bad, blacks can be kind, and Lars Holstrom "secretly" puts the racial attitude of equality for all in the Nutcracker (a fantasy movie), which is both a collision that has always been incompatible and a world that has always been "big". "same.
Women: The best thing about this fantasy work is the use of color. Throughout the whole plot, the director uses many colors to achieve a sense of fantasy, but some laws are never broken: red represents loyalty and kindness, black represents reality and problems, white represents mystery and unknown, etc., such as Jiang Mu and her big brother. The main color of the toy is red, so a "misunderstanding" was pre-buried: the witch who thought it was a downfall was actually the ruler of the future candy kingdom, as well as the red soldier costumes of the black guards.
However, the most secret is black. In the scene, almost all the men in reality are wearing black clothes: Clara's father, uncle, brother and the big ball at the end of the film, while the women are colorful, let the audience I have to think of the director's profound intention: the colorfulness of women. In addition, as a story with a mother as the main plot, it also magnifies the greatness, affection and selflessness of women (maternal love) to the extreme.
Good and Evil: There are a few important points to review here. The clues that drive the plot: the mouse and the owl. The owl is the leader and the mouse is the problem maker. The whole plot is "led" by the mouse and the owl, but Lars Holstrom gave the mouse more tasks, and he made the mouse a turning point in the story, that is, the great reversal of the watershed between good and evil . Rats seem to be very stinky and like to make trouble. They were together with the original Jiang mother, which made the audience hate them deeply, but in the end the truth came out. It turned out that the mouse empire was not an enemy but an ally. At the same time, Meiguo girl has the appearance of a fairy, but she has always been sane, false and condescending. She deceived the kindness with hypocrisy and became a big black boss. Lars Holstrom uses this shredded good and evil to reveal the entanglement and contradiction between appearance and truth, good and evil, and let the audience slap themselves.
In fact, there are many ingenious designs in this movie, for example, the "organ" is used as each node of the story: the mousetrap is the beginning, the merry-go-round is repaired and the original is started, the rotating hanger enters the Four Kingdoms, and the big toy that Jiang mother rotates to take To the keys, the spinning nutcracker, and the spinning…. In addition, several synthetic long shots, BGM, and implication settings for flowers, snowflakes, candy, and toys in the film all seem ingenious. There are many, many more, you can only YY by yourself.
Finally, to borrow the last sentence from the end of Daddy Clara: everything goes back to the beginning. Yes, it's just a dream-like story. After love, abandonment, and separation, who is not the soil after all, who is not the most pity for the original heart.
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