I never felt that this movie was for kids. The overall story structure, on the surface, is indeed a fairy tale genre theme, but from the analysis of the content, it will be found that in fact, this is an adult fairy tale movie.
Therefore, the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" uses the cloak of fairy tales as a disguise, unscrupulously venting the false dissatisfaction with the adult world, and under the guise of the grotesque behavior of various children with psychological problems, finally all the spearheads are pointed at this hypocritical and materialistic adult world.
I admit that my first exposure to this film was attracted by the cool chocolate-making process inside, but when Willy Wonka, played by Johnny Depp, appeared, the man who had long been derailed from reality greeted the five visitors with various strange expressions, and as an audience, unconsciously fell into the trap that director Tim Burton had already preset.
There are no fairy tales, only punishments, no fantasies, only grotesques.
With his tall hat, his miserable white skin, his messy language, and Willy Wonka's appearance, which looks a bit like a messenger of hell, the purpose of his appearance is not limited to finding an heir, but more of a mixture of his twisted hatred for the adult world, which is related to his childhood experience and his entrepreneurial process, so he wants to punish evil.
The world is intoxicated with power and money, and greed is constantly expanding, so that this evil has inherited.
So, in the movie, we see five children who share the same personalities as their parents. I think that when Willy Wonka allowed one of his family members to enter the chocolate factory as a child's companion, this place, which originally belonged to a food paradise, gradually became a place of terror. All the parents became bystanders, all the children became the participants.
How important it is to remain childlike, and how rare it is to remain kind, once in the original joyful time, when suffering from the oppression from adults, either sink, or flee, or simply imitate, and most of us, most of us have become imitators, which is the saddest.
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Released in 2005, 14 years have passed since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and even though it's been so long, every time you revisit the film, you'll still feel a shock.
In particular, those dwarfs, after being punished by small children, will always appear in time to make an impromptu song and dance performance against the evil character. The interspersing of these forms will inevitably make people feel that the film's preaching meaning is too strong.
However, if you think about it carefully, the appearance of the dwarf itself carries an absurd color, and the process of punishment, more or less with a bit of ridicule, uses absurdity and ridicule to puncture the hidden hypocrisy, and generally achieves a certain balance of value.
As a child of the poor at the bottom, Charlie can only eat a piece of chocolate on his birthday every year, and his house, standing alone on the outskirts of the city, has a deliberate sense of separation from the city.
Here we can also see some of the director's careful thoughts, when the warm emotions gradually disappear in the city, only the Charlie family insists on the last family affection in poverty, bitter but happy.
Therefore, from the location of Charlie's house, it can be seen that the director is deliberately emphasizing the indifference of the city. On the surface, it is the city life that abandons the Charlie family, and a careful analysis will find that in fact, the Charlie family is far away from the city, and although they have fallen into material poverty, they have not fallen into spiritual poverty.
The story of the movie is very simple, Willy Wonka found that he had white hair when he was combing his hair, and he decided that in the chocolate produced, he put five gold coupons, and the child who got the gold coupon could take a parent to visit his chocolate factory, and then, get a mysterious gift, this gift is to inherit his chocolate factory.
As a result, a chocolate rush was set off everywhere. Because of the chocolate factory leak many years ago, Willy Wonka dismissed all the workers, and after that, no one entered the chocolate factory, and it was overshadowed with mystery, so these five gold coupons became the only pass to enter the chocolate factory.
In the process of storytelling, there is not much foreshadowing buried, and the biggest story ups and downs may be in the process of Charlie buying chocolate three times.
Charlie's gold coupon was hard-won, just in contrast to the ease of the other four gold coupons.
This contrast, there is a gap between the rich and the poor, although it is not obvious, but the deliberate display of the other four groups of families in the film can basically see the negative values that prevail in today's society. The endlessness of greed, the endlessness of fame and fortune, the endlessness of money, and the endlessness of violence, these four endlesss, show the most primitive nature of human beings.
The good is isolated on the edge of the city, and the evil is hidden in the center of the city, and from this theme, the film is clearly an adult fairy tale.
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Wrapping adult fairy tales with dreams, after puncturing, just like the sun-sunged chocolate palace of the Indian prince in the movie, it will eventually make the artificially stereotyped chocolate appear prototype. Therefore, when the five children entered the chocolate factory of Willy Wonka together, the children's character that was subtly influenced by their parents was also exposed.
In real society, children make mistakes, and adults will always use "he is still a child, no malice" to prevaricate, and in the movie, these greedy without malice ultimately do not avoid the lessons they should learn.
In this fairytale chocolate factory, the evil of the adult world is not allowed to be tarnished, so the four children pay a corresponding price for their greed, willfulness, selfishness and violence.
Although the culprit of these mistakes is the parents, in the movie, it is only the punishment of the children, and the parents, as bystanders, witness all this happening. I think that the director arranged this precisely so that these parents, who have been indulging in numbness in themselves for too long, jump out of the closed circle where they feel good about themselves, and see their own shadows from their children, which will be more profound.
"I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because I am in this mountain", I think, this movie interprets this sentence from beginning to end.
Because of the opportunity to visit the chocolate factory, Charlie stood with the rich, he jumped out of the circle of poverty and warmth, saw the selfishness and indifference occupied by greed; the rich people who were immersed in the fantasy of self-beauty, jumped out of the comfortable and closed circle, saw the disaster caused by greed.
Although these punishments are not considered to be devastating blows, the almost deformed children at the end have actually brought indelible fear to the psychology of adults.
However, Willy Wonka, as the controller, did not escape the director's ridicule.
This man, who was oppressed by his father's power, ran away from home after stealing candy several times and was scolded by his father for stealing candy several times, and never returned home. Every time the word parents is mentioned, Willy Wonka stutters and cannot spell out parents accurately. This is the lack of care, and the direct impact of the lack of care is the starting point of all the problems that Willy Wonka thinks about, and it is always himself.
When Charlie becomes the designated heir of Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka demands that Charlie must leave his family and run the business alone, because, free from the shackles of emotion, he can devote himself to work without being tied down and make the most delicious chocolate.
However, Charlie refused Willy Wonka's request because of his affection, which caused Willy Wonka's values to be hit and shaken, and he began to doubt his previous ideas and practices.
The director arranges for Charlie's stubbornness about family affection, forcing Willy Wonka to jump out of the self-centered circle for the first time and act as a bystander to seriously think about the value of life. When the warm emotions slowly returned, the single-family building where Willy Wonka's father lived had a special meaning of existence.
When all the surrounding buildings have disappeared, only will LiWangka's father's home exist, and the meaning here is clear.
The house that still stands in the snow and wind represents a return, and it has the same meaning as the previous chocolate factory, except that the chocolate factory is passive, forcing those hypocritical adults to return to goodness, and this house is actively returning willy Wonka's blank emotions.
Therefore, the purpose of the movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is not to satirize, but to make everything that was originally beautiful return to its original position. When Charlie's house moves into a chocolate factory at the end, the absurd adult fairy tale also comes to an end.
Adults are former children, children are future adults, do not let the former children strangle the hands of future adults.