Sleeping Betty
I chose sleeping beauty. Release date: June 11, 2007. Director: Claude Cloutier, screenwriter: Claude Cloutier. Official website: www.nfb.ca/sleeping betty . IMDB link: tt1121969. The synopsis of the story is as follows: no one knows that there is a magnificent palace under the ordinary residential area in Montreal. Beautiful princess Betty, has been deep sleep, sleep does not wake up. The king anxiously accompanied her and appealed to his subjects to save his beloved daughter. Her uncle Henry VIII, aunt Victoria, an ugly alien, a fashionable Witch and a handsome prince were all helpless outside. A lot of witch doctors who are attracted by the name have no way, so the princess Betty has been deeply asleep. All this seems to be waiting for the arrival of Prince Charles, who has heard the call of Princess Betty from afar. He is riding a mighty dragon, all the way to come. But can his kiss really wake up the Sleeping Princess Betty?
In this story, allegory runs through the whole story. A group of royal family and attendants in order to wake up the princess each out of intrigue. In the end, only the alarm clock can wake up the punctual princess. The lines of political cartoons are violent and mischievous, similar to Plympton. Exaggeration dislocation, including sound effect dislocation and character behavior dislocation, character action dislocation and time background dislocation, is the main humorous means of short film. The arrangement of classical soundtrack is as thoughtful as the arrangement of dialogue speed. "This is a fairy tale out of the traditional context and background, or it is no longer a fairy tale, but a black humor with the same ill intentioned as Vonnegut's novels." The background is vague, intentionally infiltrating modern images into classical scenes. Therefore, the "Princess" sleeping in bed (it's more appropriate for Gu to call her a woman) blurs the accuracy of the times like a second hand. The telephone, car and road signs warn, the incompetent Prince and the capable white horse, the embarrassment of modern and ancient times, and the kiss of true love at the end don't wake up the sleepless Beauty, on the contrary, it is the alarm clock under the industrial system that ends this funny "wake-up" journey. Therefore, such an image is a provocation to subvert the traditional authority. Naturally, we will think of Barthelme's Snow White afterlife, in which the modern women in the concrete jungle have replaced the unfortunate princess in the traditional proposition. Repression, desire and jealousy have squeezed away the purity, innocence and goodness in the classical discourse. Our familiar story has been changed, and the new bottle is filled with new wine that makes people laugh and cry. Of course, Barthelme's text carries much more postmodern thinking and significance than this film, which also deconstructs the classic works of Grimm's fairy tales. It shows the individual's confusion, loneliness and confusion in the modern work system, as well as the variation and distortion of human nature. The materialized urban shadow tears the primitive simplicity of snow white, and human nature is infiltrated and distorted In the works of modernist writers, such themes are constantly presented as Joyce (Ulysses), Sinclair Lewis (Main Street), Sherwood Anderson (a freak in a small town) and younescu (a new tenant and a bald singer). In the film world, t ATI and Chaplin all expressed the same reflection. The theme of this sleeping beauty movie seems to be just a joke on the classic, a malicious but not malicious teasing. However, it can still give us some thoughts about the modern context.
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