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A long time ago, there lived an inventor in the castle. He made all kinds of things, and finally made a robot and named him Edward. The inventor devoted himself to this work. He even taught Edward human manners and poetry, telling him when to smile and when to be silent. The inventor gave Edward a pair of hands on his birthday. However, before installing these hands on his children, the inventor died suddenly because of illness, leaving Edward, who has human mind but still has a pair of scissors hands, who wants to love but can't touch human beings, to live alone in the castle.

I don't know how many years passed. Looking at the gloomy black and white castle from a distance has always made the town residents feel uneasy. Peg, a middle-aged woman, boldly went in to promote cosmetics, only to find that it was lush and there was another world. By contrast, Pei lives in a crayon-like residential villa in a small town. Childlike gardening in the castle created a world away from the noise.

Tim burton's films are different because they are always clean and bright, as bright as the four seasons, but full of dreamy atmosphere. The abstract story background seems to be an unrealistic theme, like a fable, from which everyone can read different meanings. In the movie Edward Scissorhands, there are two settings that cannot be ignored. One is the castle where Edward and the inventor live. On the one hand, the mystery of the castle itself adds a fantastic color to the story, making the impossible possible. On the other hand, the castle keeps a distance from our reinforced concrete world. It is such a paradise that is not polluted by the secular world that can give Edward a pure heart. The incompatibility between castles and human society implies the final outcome of fairy tales.

In this world, Peg found Edward who was described as eccentric. The kind Peg was not frightened by Edward's pale face and bare hands, but pitied his loneliness and took him back to his home. This leads to the second setting that can't be mentioned, that is Edward's scissorhands. Its mechanical properties make Edward dual. On the one hand, he is excluded from the necessary physical communication of human society, because he will be hurt when he meets anything, and his strange scissors hands will make him look stiff and embarrassed when facing the complicated life of human beings; On the other hand, these hands gave him methods and skills to get close to things that ordinary people don't have, such as trimming vegetation, cutting hair, ice carving, cutting vegetables and unlocking locks. Edward is an undisputed robot, but he wants to create it with scissors hands to prove his existence and win the love of human beings.

When Peg brought Edward home, she didn't think about her behavior carefully. She just wants to give Edward a home. But Peg's female neighbors, who like to flirt, spy and gossip, don't think so. Edward's appearance added fresh excitement to their boring life, so everyone showed great friendship and even intimacy to him. When he showed his talent for pruning plants and designing hairstyles with scissors, the whole town was almost crazy about him and regarded him as a star darling.

However, this kind of Edward also has his own pain. He fell in love with Peg's daughter, the beautiful and unique Kim. Kim already has a boyfriend, Jim, and has always been very resistant to the new members of this family.

Edward bravely sneaked into Jim's father's mansion for a request of Kim.

Seeing the danger, Jim ran away with his friends. Edward, who touched the organ, was arrested by the police, but he did not disclose the truth. Although he was quickly released because he was "unable to judge right from wrong", people around him regarded him as a dangerous man who deliberately robbed property and kept him and Peg's family at a distance. In the process, Kim gradually saw Jim's ugly face and fell in love with Edward.

That Christmas, the first snow began to fall in the town. Edward stood on the high shelf in the yard and made an angelic ice sculpture for gold. Snowflakes fly into the snow, and gold flies in the snow. Edward can't hug his lover with scissors, so he can only talk to her with his own creation. But at this time, the contradiction reached a climax.

Edward was driven away by Jim who hated himself because he accidentally scratched Kim's hand. Then, he saved Kim's younger brother Kevin, but everyone regarded him as the culprit. Edward is a child who doesn't understand secular rules, is full of fantasies and hasn't grown up yet. His simplicity is like white ice and snow. Because of ignorance, I have no desire, because of loneliness, I am sad. Although he is dressed in black, with messy hair and scratches on his pale face, he is just a simple and lonely child. He will retaliate like a child, frightened strangers, angry at charity, angry at cheating.

The town's misunderstanding of Edward is getting deeper and deeper, and everyone wants to expel Edward. This is no longer Edward's paradise, and Edward, who is helpless, can only escape to the castle.

Although Kim accepted Edward's unrequited love, some fairy tales had a sad ending from the beginning, no matter how light, fancy and forbearing it seemed. Because the protagonists in the story are all people who don't belong to this world, they are essentially incompatible with the real world and can't be accepted by this world after all. Compared with Edward's purity, people in the real world are extremely inhuman. They are vain, vicious, selfish and complicated. They often sacrifice the lives of others for their own selfish interests. Jim is the best example.

Edward Scissorhands truly established tim burton's personal film style, with a tragic ending like Andersen's, which was caused by the conflict between dream and reality. As the little prince from another planet finally fell silently; Like the Happy Prince being thrown into the furnace of a foundry for incineration; As the daughter of the sea became a bubble on the water, she lost her lover forever. Edward, a robot with scissors hands, can't even hug his lover. In the end, he can only hide in an unknown corner forever, where he prunes his plants, ice and snow, and love.