Introduction: "Obviously Willie Wonka's chocolate factory is the highest image castle of money power and seduction, and coming here is the dream of everyone in the world, and the key to opening the castle is Charlie's innocent, considerate and humble heart." ”
The movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is a fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, which is a childlike film about a man named Willie Wonka who has the world's largest chocolate factory, the factory has no workers but can produce the best chocolate every day and send it to all over the world, forced by the factory inheritance consideration He invited the world's lucky five children to visit his chocolate factory and gave a prize to the winner of the visit. So five families and their children visit the tempting Wonka Chocolate Factory, which has been deserted for fifteen years, and the mysterious adventure that takes place among the five children to win the ultimate prize.
As a very imaginative fantasy film, in the production of "audiovisual wonders", the director focuses the audience on the plot and special effects with his best production methods, and the whole film constructs a colorful fairy tale world for the audience. The combination of artistic imagination and film means gives the film a deeper expressive intention at the narrative level. "It's director Tim Burton's first film for a child, but it's as impossible for him to abandon his sense of noir absurdity as it is for him to give up his last name." Similar to Tim Burton's other fantasy films, Alice in Wonderland and Dumbo, he creates fairy tales with deep allegory for adults, showing surprising aesthetic effects while also revealing human nature and looking forward to family relationships.
The chocolate factory or the final prize in the film represents desire and seduction as a special symbol. In the process of visiting the chocolate factory as scheduled, the four children were eliminated one by one because of greed, willfulness and arrogance, and everything in the chocolate factory was created by the director in a surprisingly absurd form, such as the chocolate river, the candy meadow, the fudge mountain, etc. These things that make the children full of curiosity and greed in the film also leave room for the adult world to think. The body of the four "wayward" children represents the vileness of four different human natures, digging deep into the back is the result of the influence of a family, the child's personality is to a large extent the product of the original family, in the chocolate factory that is full of temptation in the paradise, the parents' ignorant concepts and educational shortcomings have created the result of being eliminated. The director conveys the true meaning of good and evil with black absurd elements and straightforward and easy-to-understand film plots, even if money can buy tickets to visit the chocolate factory, but it cannot buy the joy and deliciousness that candy really brings to people.
In contrast, the Charlie family, whose material life is not satisfactory, gives Charlie the most powerful spiritual wealth, and the warmth and love of the family promote Charlie's correct growth path, and it is also the best embodiment of humanity to carry forward in the beauty. During a visit to the chocolate factory, others expressed suspicion and confusion about Willy's strange inventions and ideas, but Charlie could find some unique insights in the factory. In fact, the key to this dream paradise is to have a humble and considerate heart like Charlie, which is also the key to a good human nature. "Children are chocolate, parents are factories" this sentence to a large extent interprets the influence of parents on children is a decisive role, in the movie "Godfather" there is a sentence: "Nothing is more important than the family", indeed as a guide on the road to children's growth, parents need to personally demonstrate and guide, let children guide and experience the warmth and love from the family, and the corresponding greed, pride and arrogance in human nature also need to let children know that the consequences they bring need to bear. Tim Burton integrates human nature and family factors into the world of fairy tales and brings them to the big screen, and it turns out that fairy tales are really not just for children to see.
In addition to the influence of five different families on the formation of children in the film, the setting of the relationship between Willy Wonka and his father is extremely similar to that of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. In the film, Willie's father is a dentist with extremely high restrictions on children, and from an early age, under the strict control of his father, he could not enjoy any delicious candy, so he contributed to Willie's construction of the world's largest chocolate factory, and correspondingly, Foucault's father was an internist, Foucault's original name was Paul Michel Foucault, but from childhood, he also removed Paul from his name because of the stiff parent-child relationship with his father. In the film, Willie's father treats his son as an experimental object to "prove that he is a good dentist", and he never treats his son as an individual with needs and desires. For His part, Willie used his own strength to punish four extremely greedy and wayward children. The deep structure of power in Foucault's book Discipline and Power and the resulting process of imprisonment and punishment are also confirmed by Willie's father's control over Willie and Willie's punishment of his four children in the chocolate factory. The film transforms desire into sugar-coated cannonballs through video means, a fairy tale world that is impossible to achieve in real life, which is reflective for both children and adults.
Wonka's Chocolate Factory and Charlie's House present audiences with two very different worlds. For the film, the investment of technology has constructed a fairy tale world in the chocolate factory that all children dream of, which is also the key to capturing the audience's attention at the visual level as a fantasy film. Everything here is a clean and beautiful existence in the eyes of the child, a pure world after the child is processed and colored in the mind, and in a sense, it also contributes to the fantasy color of the film. But returning to the story itself, these images can only exist in the imagination of children and are absurd in reality, and the production mode of chocolate in the factory is based on technology but appears "anti-scientific" production forms. For example, by "beating" cows for cream treatment and using television for chocolate delivery, the film presents this speculation about technology in an absurd form, which is obviously a process of reflection on the two sides of scientism.
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is an entertaining fantasy film that conveys the truth to children in a simple and interesting way by conveying the truth to children in a simple and interesting way, which is also a fairy tale movie worthy of adult taste and thinking.