Movie review for “Enchanted”
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007“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?