"Pinocchio" is not my favorite fairy tale. I haven't watched the plot for decades. This time around, it's a bit more emotional.
I have never thought about who wrote "Pinocchio" before, but after watching the first few minutes of this film, I can confirm that this is a fairy tale that the author can test, and it was written after the Industrial Revolution. As a result, I checked the Internet and found that it was written in the 19th century, which is already very late, even later than "A Dream of Red Mansions".
The texture of this movie is very unique, it is fantasy and dark, it is the kind of hardcore fantasy dark, very different from Disney. If you watch Disney's "Maleficent", you also want to do fantasy and darkness, but the whole style is sweet and dreamy, and people's genes are like this; and "Pinocchio" belongs to true fantasy and darkness, it feels like it has witnessed human beings for hundreds of years. The kind of cruelty that can only be piled up by all kinds of suffering.
This kind of texture reminds me of "The Story of the Story", I checked, it is the same director...
When I read "Pinocchio" again when I was standing and not confused, I felt that the story was very tragic: a child who was disobedient, did not study well, ran away from home, but was kidnapped by traffickers. The old father embarked on the road to find his son, but there was little hope, and he could only hope that the two would be reunited after their death.
I think the story actually ends when Pinocchio is thrown into the sea with the body of a donkey, and he drowns. The part in the whale's belly is the author's pen of compassion, just as Hayao Miyazaki reunites the girls with their families in "My Neighbor Totoro", and Zhou Xingchi lets Rumeng take the actress in "The King of New Comedy".
Latin cultures seem to be particularly nurturing for such narrators of adult-like fairy tales, such as French-language Genet (Amelie, Rhapsody in the Black Shop), Spanish-language del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth), and The Galloni of the language family. Del Toro is working on Disney's "Pinocchio," hoping the live-action film can match or even surpass animation after disappointing "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King 2019."
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