小王子英文影评

The Little prince: A Review of Love and Responsibility

By Yin Hai Yue

We all know the book The Little Prince, which was published in 1940. It’s the world-famous fairy-tale by the French author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The outline of The Little Prince is not very complex.Wikipedia reported that “I”, the narrator of the story, is a pilot whose plane has something wrong and lands in the Sahara. In this occasion, the pilot makes the acquaintance of the little prince, a little boy from another planet, the Asteroid B612.The little prince has escaped from his tiny planet, because he has some quarrel with a rose, which grows on his planet and he loves. In that case he left his own planet and took an exploration at some neighbor asteroids.

The Little Prince movie was released in October this year, IMDb reported that the heart of it all is the little girl, who's being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which they live only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, the Aviator. The Aviator introduces his new friend to an extraordinary world where anything is possible and he was initiated into long ago by The Little Prince. It's here that the little girl's magical and emotional journey into her own imagination and into the universe of The Little Prince begins. And it's where the little girl rediscovers her childhood and learns that ultimately, it's human connections that matter most, and that what's truly essential can only be seen with the heart.

Many scenes of the film have impressed me deeply and deeply. The fox of the movie, the little prince's friend, remind me of my friends. When we were children, we needed someone accompany us, which we could share our happiness, sadness and would not feel lonely. I believe that man is born alone, after as we grew up, this loneliness is growing. When we encounter some difficulties, we feel that no one can talk, because everyone has their own troubles. But we still need a friend, who we

spent a lot of energy to operate. Just like the fox said to the little prince that “ To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all over the world. To you, I shall be unique in all over the world.” I think that many of us want to make friend like the fox because the fox accompany the little prince and make the little prince more mature.

As we grow up, we understand that love and responsibility are inseparable from each other. Just as the fox said “Men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.” When I saw this scene, I was so touched. Because the fox must also love the little prince, as the little prince loves his rose, but he still choose to give up his happiness and persuade the little prince to go back for his rose. Because the fox wanted the little prince know that if you choose to love it, you must be responsible for it, which need much energy and patience.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eyes”, which is a very classic movie lines of this movie. When we grew up, we are increasingly unable to detect the good things of our life. Not because the good things of life become less and less, it is our eyes and heart can't see it. The negative energy of this world affect our values, make us focus on the bad things instead of the wonderful things. From the movie, at the end, the little princes 'rose died, he was very sad, but he still felt that he can saw the rose which he loved with his heart. Sometime we should see the world with the heart instead of the eyes, which we can see something never saw before.