Fairy tales have always existed as some kind of light, boosting people's confidence in adversity and praising the goodness and beauty of the world. On the road to growth, those precious qualities that are destined to be consumed and consumed, fairy tales are used as foreshadowing, written into the hearts of children in advance. A considerable part of the three views on people's growth path are imperceptible given by childhood fairy tales.
But the origin of fairy tales has a certain dark color. After examination, people found that whether it is Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales or Grimm's fairy tales, there is a considerable degree of human cruelty. And based on the space of the fairy tale's unbridled imagination, it can sometimes even be malicious — in the beginning, the fairy tale was as complex as humans. However, in the long self-evolution of human society, no parent in any country is willing to tell too cruel stories to children. So after being filtered and purified by adults over and over again, most fairy tales become too crystal clear, leaving only those seemingly perfect logics. And these logics are sometimes tedious, sometimes masking abnormalities that people are not aware of, and even some ugly psychological obstacles.
South Korean director Song Haohong's new animation work, "Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs", borrows many fairy tales such as "Red Shoes", "Snow White", "Cinderella" and so on, and wraps up a period of sharpness in the world with a family-friendly appearance.
The Seven Dwarfs were originally seven great heroes, handsome and charming, and loved by everyone. But they encounter a fairy who is ugly and does not meet the traditional definition of "fairy is beauty", and the words of the seven arrogant heroes are quite offensive, and they are punished for transforming into seven dwarfs. Green skin, each one is a stocky winter melon.
The setting of the story is first of all a kind of subversive color - does the fairy have to be beautiful? Can an old and ugly professional magical woman be only a witch? When did beauty begin to be fixed to "truth and goodness", and further deepened for beautiful women? If you expand a little more, if the weaver girl is not beautiful, will the cowherd still fall in love at first sight... It can be said that once this strange idea came out, the foundation of many folklore and fairy tales was not solid.
Back-to-the-bone, the director began his radical rewriting of traditional fairy tales. Snow White is 250 pounds fat, people are good people, but certainly no one loves. The beautiful stepmother killed the king and hunted down the snow, and the apple tree she planted with magic was about to bear fruit, and whoever ate it could be young forever, and the beauty was magnificent. And the yin and yang are wrong, the red apple has become the red shoes under the snow, wearing it the snow instantly becomes the most beautiful in the world, the figure is the most beautiful, the waist line from three feet three instants to seven feet ... But as soon as she took off her shoes, the beauty bounced back to the big fat girl.
The hero who transforms into a dwarf needs to get a kiss from the true love of the most beautiful woman in the country to restore his original appearance. After Snow White and the dwarves met, they became the object of the stars and the moon, and the reason for the jealousy of the wind. Bai Xue was surprised to find that the "usefulness" of beauty was so great, and he was also worried about the true self that others could not face after taking off the red shoes. Merlin, the fat ball of the seven dwarves, was once the most mercurial prince, and how he longed to stand in front of the snow in his true form and conquer her heart. He was willing to cross the mountains and the sea for her, slaying dragons and killing monsters - but what Bai Xue thought in his heart was, if you found out that I was not the beautiful person in front of me, would you still love me?
The whole adventure of the bad queen of wisdom and martial arts has a lot of jokes, and people can always experience the director's constant "beating the side drum" in the happiness of the flowing down - can true love resist the reversal of appearance? Can inner beauty really resist external collapse? Snow White shows the sincerity and bravery of a modern independent woman throughout the story, and in all the characters, she is one who can lift a torch and illuminate herself and her lover. She didn't care about merlin's appearance, only for his integrity and kindness; she was happy with her appearance, but she could not hesitate to take off her red shoes and release herself to return to herself; she dared to rip off her disguise and test whether the love she longed for was strong enough—she could have worn red shoes to deceive Merlin for a lifetime, but she would never have refused.
In fact, the director is not just calling for attention to spiritual beauty. He used the old fairy tale conventions to the point of human ignorance and unconsciousness, and touched the shield of fairy tales with the spear of reversing fairy tales—everything that seems happy and beautiful is only based on external judgment, even if it is a fairy tale, everything is still not worth believing. He also provoked everyone to reflect that the DNA of "appearance is justice" has infiltrated our consciousness so early, and how much of the logic of adults taking "beauty" for granted can withstand torture.
The director's spicy power is well mixed with commercial sugarcoating, with a hint of sweet and spicy sauce flavor. The story is very smooth, the cultivation of emotions, the growth of the soul have gone through several detours but it is logical, and the final family fun is also a necessity for business. Just after reading the whole story, after laughing forward and backward, people will hang a full question mark on the true and pure fairy tales of childhood. This is an unusual Korean animation, children can see that they can break the beauty can be a princess, beauty will be happy obsession; adults can be confused about the love and reality of the single wooden bridge, if there is no, whether they have crossed.