Shrek 2

Shrek I and II are highly praised masterpieces in DreamWorks in recent years. It is rare that sequels can still maintain the level of the first episode. The first episode is a great subversion of fairy tales. It tells the story of a king who wants to find a beautiful princess for himself, so he recruits warriors to save Princess Fiona who is locked in a tower.

On the other hand, Shi Lijia, a monster living in the swamp, found that his residence was occupied by foreign fairy tale characters for no reason. It turned out that they had been brought here by the king. He wanted to reclaim his swamp, so he came to the fairy tale kingdom with his new friend, the talkative Donkey, only to take over the task of saving the princess by mistake. Shi Lijia developed feelings with the princess.

It turned out that the princess was a beauty during the day, but turned into a monster at night. They overcame their misunderstanding and inferiority complex and kissed each other. Fiona became a monster from now on, and monsters matched monsters.

Schlika I has changed the routine of matching princes with princesses in fairy tales, which makes people feel quite refreshing. However, it still emphasizes the problem of "matching" in marriage, mainly in appearance. The sequel goes beyond the ending of "living happily ever after" and describes the process of "seeing parents" after marriage.

When they returned from their honeymoon, they received a letter from Fiona's parents inviting the princess and her husband to return home to attend the wedding party. Gal discovered the disproportion between the two people. Although Fiona is ugly and strange in appearance, she is always a princess, but Shi Lijia is a real monster. He was also aware of this and was extremely unwilling to accompany the princess home, but at the insistence of his wife, he finally had to leave.

If the misunderstanding and conflict between the two people lies in their inferiority complex in appearance in the first episode, the sequel emphasizes the disparity in identity. Shi Lijia always strongly opposes the princess going home because she can escape when she stays in the swamp. Once she returns to the kingdom, she has to face her wife's family and the fact that her wife is a royal family.

King Charlotte, Feianna's father, is strongly opposed to this marriage, which has its own selfishness and the pressure of fairy godmother, but there is no denying that princess and monster are actually incompatible. Although the end is still a fairy tale ending, and true love overcomes the obstacles of identity, I think there is no such happy ending in reality.

Love may be a matter for two people, but marriage is definitely not. In western countries, it may be better, and the family is relatively independent. If the son-in-law and father-in-law don't look at each other, like Schlika and Charlotte, the two families are separated from each other, and they can die of old age without going out with each other, but I'm afraid not in China. Chinese people attach great importance to family ties, and their family values are extremely heavy. Two people love each other. If they are not recognized and blessed by the family, they will often be very sad, and even can't bear the pressure and eventually break up.

Like the relationship between Schlika and King Charlotte, I felt very fresh when I first saw it. Charlotte looked down on Shi Lijia's identity, and Shi Lijia was caught up in inferiority complex, and she was always at odds, especially in the scene of the first dinner, which was classic. To westerners, this is just a quarrel between two men, if in China, this is true for elders? Is really a big negative.

But in any case, the familyness in marriage is the same both at home and abroad, otherwise Fiona would not insist on taking her husband back to see her parents. People are group animals, and they hope to be recognized by relatives and friends around them. In reality, the disillusionment of "fairy tales" may also come from this.

The marriage with disparity in status is always difficult to get the recognition of both families. Therefore, it makes sense to say that the door is suitable, sounds snobbish, and is helpless.