The movie has two main lines in parallel, one is the magical fairy tale world of the heroine, and the other is the cruel war background, the struggle between guerrillas and dictatorships. The child’s mind is clean and simple, and the same is true for the world. It is like escaping from the war with the help of the magical world. Although you get some comfort from your heart, you still have to return to reality after all. This strange combination presents a particularly attractive texture.
There is so much reality as magical. If this is also a fairy tale, it is definitely a fairy tale that will leave a shadow on people. Both the line of reality and the line of magical stories are full of gloom, darkness, damp, dirty, dirty, bloody, suffocation and cruelty. After all, the magical world is also a reflection of the cruel world. Even if it is the only bright and warm ending in the whole film, it is only more uncomfortable and depressing to watch, because we all know that there are no gods and ghosts, no spells, no wonderland, and no underground kingdom. Fairy tales are as horrible as this world, and you can't avoid it.
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