小美人鱼little mermaid电影赏析

What make us believe in love

I've been wondering what was it that made us believe in love. We seem to believe in it for no reason, even before we know what it is. But how come?

The Little Mermaid seems to be hinting at the answer: we are told to believe in it since childhood when we could not possibly know what love is, and when we were not yet able to cast any doubt on what we are taught and told. So, in love we believe.

Yet we may have lost some of the meaning in such motion pictures. Surely, they give more than a simple and groundless belief.

It tells about what price we pay for true love, and what true love requires. Love is only reached on the basis of love, more love from more people.

What if the little mermaid followed the king's demand in order not to offense him instead of keep annoying him and persisting in her adventure to the human world?

What if the little fish refused to follow her in all the ventures?

What if the bird didn't help and encourage her?

What if sebastien the crab conductor refuse to change his stand to help?

What if the princess feel nothing toward the mermaid since she has lost her beautiful voice?

What if the king of the human world didn't approve their marriage?

What if the ocean king didn't sacrifice himself to save the mermaid from the witch?

and What if the mermaid and the king won't live happy together afterwards?

……

So many possibilities, so many obastacles and ordeals.

Love is only love, it does not spell happiness itself, let alone hapiness for a lifetime.

It's true that motion pictures like this tells us to believe in love, yet they also show us

all the difficulties on the way to true love and to the happiness of life. A belief in love, virtually, does not simply mean that you believe that the right person will one day come. It also means that you have to keep your faith in it in all those difficulties and hardship, and that you keep your faith not only till the day you get married to the right one, but also, through all your life with him, whatever may happen.

REPLY:

I always think true love should follow our hearts feeling, no a specifice form like marriage.

故事的结局王子爱上了小人鱼,于是他们快乐的在一起.

在安徒生的故事里,王子爱上的是想象中拯救他的女子.于是小人鱼只有放手.

王子说,舞蹈是语言,无声却胜过任何歌唱.于是人鱼为他起舞.

王子说,那个拯救我的声音,就是我的爱人.于是人鱼用父亲还给她的声音向他诉说.

爱得没有自我的人,最终得不到爱情.

小人鱼为了爱情放弃了自己的声音,自己的大海,自己的生命.

那么我想,安徒生是对的,她失去了自我,除了那个虚无缥缈的灵魂和生命以外为爱而存在的永恒,她真的得不到自己的王子.

做人,还是自私一点好.有爱,不多,已经足够.有人陪伴,无须生命的代价.

她其实也是一个很普通很物质的女孩。不满足于自己是海底世界的公主，对得不到的总是心生向往。希望成为一个人。甚至不惜典当声音来交换一双人类的腿。而爱情有时也很脆弱，难道只有声音才能让王子分辨出谁是他的真爱吗？

不知道原来改编过的版本是Happy Ending,开始看之前还犹豫了下，虽然是最喜欢的童话，但是太过哀伤。记得以前看到过一篇写安徒生的小文，印象最深的是结语的九个字。爱而不可得，无时或忘。那时候算是似懂非懂，现在还是觉得，要经历过一生之久的人才有资格说出这句话，就好象安徒生本人一样。没有研读过他的生平，但是应该是经历很多吧，不然为何他的文字美丽又哀伤，他的童话似乎更适合成年人来读。

说着说着说偏题了，关于这部电影，其实没什么太多想说的，看着比较温暖舒心就是了。不管是哪个版本，觉得只有小美人鱼一个人在努力，而王子只是犹犹豫豫地站在原地而已（电影版的后来好点）。这大