"Terry Gilliam on Children of Paradise (1945)". lachambreverte. October 9, 2017.
Terry Gilliam focuses rather beautifully on the director/lighting aspects of --probably--my favorite French film (besides The King of Hearts)--older films, in other words.
My focus, when I watched this film, was on the story and the character connections. I took it as a story of feminine emancipation, enslavement, and the types of men that women are "supposed" to "want" but what they really want--or those who have had enough experience to understand.....
That the poet, the person who digs into your consciousness and soul and brings forth bouquets of new blossoms is more worth than any wealthy Big Daddy--who endlessly searches for more and more entrapment schemes for his power cartel(s) out of the brothels of his empire(s).
Amazing that this film, created very much in part by Jews during the Vichy Regime, was "allowed" to come out at all under the Nazi occupation.
Perhaps the Germans were not able to understand more about the plot other than a prostitute gets help from a former series of Johns and that this is just French sleaze prostitute culture.....
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"Scene from Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis)". October 19, 2015.
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"Children of Paradise. US Re-Release trailer". janusfilms. May 8, 2012.
Every established clip I found on YouTube, the release trailer, etc only concentrates on illusion, dreams and love. It has some fight scenes, lets you know there will be a murder in order to attract potential viewers, and NEVER mentions whatsoever the real theme of the movie: women's emancipation from the prostitution of being a man's property to be bought and sold or discarded when finished. The hate for women who are independent and the persecution thereof--a theme that is dominant in this film. All the males who are in control over the dictatorship of film synopses put everything into a technical or mechanical perspective, mostly focusing on the usual formulas which make almost every other film a very similar ennui. Why are they calling this film a unique classic then if they are selling it off as just another formula love and fantasy film--the director focusing on the lighting but not on the story or on the theme of women and sexuality and male domination and women's attempt to break the bondage of this grip. Oh no...this is why the clasp of power remains a strict paralysis of monopolization by fake "alternatives" who essentially follow the dictates of a fascist, Nazi cartel which could not entirely eliminate these "radical liberal" themes while this film was being made (somehow it got done under Nazi control) but now the loopholes for making such a film are almost entirely gone. The women who are put in charge are just more puppets operating for the brothel cartels which own and manipulate these women into their various sexualized posturings claiming they are "feminists".
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I did, however, read one review of the theme of independence that the enslaved/released/re-enslaved protagonist female undertakes with the help of her male lover/friends fighting off her possessive Big Daddy fiend controllers (both female and male): the review stated that this theme actually was not about female emancipation, but more of a disguised French Resistance to Nazi occupation. Even then, the concept that WOMEN are made principle concepts upon which a film about male domination, under a fascist occupation where women are told (as I have been told under this enslavement contract out upon me) that their main function besides being a kind of prostituted object for consumption and ultimate control of wild independence--a need to suppress and control that elusive feminine will to self-attainment, even sexual liberation from cliche stereotypes and roles--but all was repackaged as a mostly male (with some women on the sidelines) attempt to thwart the German fascist control over France and it's feminine concept of the feminine mystique.
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