A fairy tale from beginning to end, with the number of assumptions too large even for a fairy tale. The whole first half of the film is based on the fact that everyone who sees the heroine’s nickel rushes in horror to run as if she has tentacles of an octopus instead of a head and wings of a demon behind her back. This behavior is
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A fairy tale from beginning to end, with the number of assumptions too large even for a fairy tale. The whole first half of the film is based on the fact that everyone who sees the heroine’s nickel rushes in horror to run as if she has tentacles of an octopus instead of a head and wings of a demon behind her back. This behavior is not an aristocrat or an adult at all. At worst, in real life, there would be embarrassed dialogue and awkward rejections. That's absolutely no reason to keep a man locked up for 25 years. In the shown world, there are absolutely no TVs - they learn all the news from the newspapers, and Penelope was then frightened on the street by ordinary runners, that is, she did not know from any source that this happened. The world is full of people with... let’s say strange love preferences. It was I who, as a child, believed that those who were not lucky enough to be born with curves would live a lonely life, but no, it is not. How many stories have there been – people with extra limbs, with incredible ugliness, Siamese twins, and half bodies – they all find husbands and wives and then give birth to children. Often just as original. Lovers of such exoticism in the world are no less than the people themselves with body strangeness. And then they show a neat, funny little spot - everything, everyone is hysterical, animal horror, the earth has opened. Yes, for her dowry, three hundred fetishists would immediately be found, who has long been drawn to the mumps. You can’t have surgery – she has a carotid artery there. What? In the nose? Do authors even know what a carotid artery is? They might as well have called the hypothalamus or duodenum. Absolutely all characters are romanticized to the limit, they behave not as people, but as characters in a bad amateur play - doing what they should in their high-lyrical role. They jump out the window. Do you have any idea what it's like to jump out the window? The dwarf was left without an eye due to the fact that his grumpy aunt beat... What did she hit him with, an axe? I felt like I was watching a child’s cartoon. And the worst thing is not that everything in this fairy tale is unreal, but that there is no morality. The girl suffered for nothing, and there was no one to save her, just somehow everything went by itself, and then she still had to seek the guy herself. Where's the moral, where's the conclusion? Emptiness.
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