Fairy tales are leaving us

Alana 2022-03-22 09:01:54

The setting of the story itself is very simple. A patient in a hospital tells a story to a little girl, and the story in this story is somewhat similar to One Thousand and One Nights, a fairy tale in the eyes of adults and children. Several different people Come together against a tyrannical governor.

The director's skill in the structure and color of the picture is partly due to Dali, and the beauty of several pictures can be described as "moving oil painting"! In my impression, Caesar in the desert, the five people on the isolated island, the elephant swimming across the sea (this picture feels that the director was even influenced by the photography master Gregory Colbert), a strange tree, the Red Hero swears and so on several scenes , and the same in THE CELL, they are all impressive!

In terms of story structure, the two main lines of reality and fairy tales are parallel and connected with each other. Reality affects the direction of fairy tales, and fairy tales eventually lead to the ending of reality. The cuteness of the little girl and the pessimism of the male protagonist all reflect the skills of the two actors, especially the Indian girl who is chubby. Although she is not very beautiful, she is very naughty and cute, and occasionally tells small lies , secretly something, simply come alive!

The director also handled a lot of originally sad plots very humorously, such as the hero who tricked the little girl into stealing morphine, because the last letter was recognized by the little girl as 3, and she threw out only 3 pieces left, making people Couldn't help but smile.

Each character in the fairy tale has a corresponding counterpart in reality. This is a fairy tale world completely in the eyes of children. Why didn't we equate the characters in fairy tales with those in reality when we were young?

In the end, adults let almost all the heroes in the fairy tale die. Such pessimism makes children suffer. The cruelty of reality is often unbearable for adults, but children pay more attention to the ups and downs of fairy tales. Children are obsessed with adults listening to stories, while adults are entangled in irritable life and cannot escape. The two are clinging to the same kind of sadness. In the story, outside the story, in life, outside life, all are false, and all are going away. .

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The Fall quotes

  • Alexandria: Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die?

    Roy Walker: It's my story.

    Alexandria: Mine, too.

  • Roy Walker: [finishing the story, both he and Alexandria are crying] He can't win. That's because our masked bandit is a coward. Yeah. He never took an oath, he's a fake. He's a liar and a coward.

    Alexandria: You're lying.

    Roy Walker: No. He had his fingers crossed. He has to die.

    Alexandria: I don't believe you.

    Roy Walker: He's dying.

    Alexandria: Don't kill him.

    Roy Walker: There's nothing left for him.

    Alexandria: His daughter.

    Roy Walker: He wasn't her father, either.

    Alexandria: She loves him.

    Roy Walker: She'll survive, she's good.

    Alexandria: I don't want you to die. Roy. Don't kill him. Let him live. Let him live. Don't kill him. Roy? Promise? And don't cross your fingers.

    Roy Walker: Promise.

    Alexandria: Show me your hands.

    Roy Walker: [raises his hands] See?