Movie review for “Enchanted”
“Enchanted” is basically a magic movie, it’s the No.1 ranking movie in the cinema now, as well as highly recommendated by New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Because of curiosity, I went to watch it on last Friday. I was actually kind of disappointed by it. The plot was both simple and cliched; a princess from magic world accidentally came to the human world and fell in love with an average man. Especially comparing with ” The Violin” I just watched also, I felt that the theme depicted in “Enchanted” is too trivial and naive. Probably a deeper theme in this movie is about trust because before the guy met the princess, he never trusted anyone. The princess made him start to trust people and to trust the world. He was deeply moved and attracted by the princess’ purity and innocence. Despite of the lack of originality and light theme, this movie, however, is the only one I’ve see that the audience spontaneously started clapping at the end of the movie. That just made me start wondering, what made the commercial movie achieve this that an artistic movie couldn’t? What is our ruler when measuring art? Does art still have any value if the audience feel hard to be emphasized? Or can we not call commercial movies arts since the audience really had a good time watching it, since they made the audience felt more relaxed and happier?
December 13th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Wow really? I actually liked Enchanted a lot because it was like nothing that I’ve ever seen before. But, the great thing about art is that everyone can look at it differently and have different opinions about it.
December 13th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I only saw the trailer for this movie, and it seemed pretty interesting because it combines both the magic and real world. However, I would definitely have to see it since have received different comments from people who watched it.