Edward Scissorhands (1991)
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price
Synopsis:
In a mansion overlooking a suburb lives an unfinished creature. When an Avon lady desperate for business takes him into her family with the best of intentions, tensions flare up in the neighbourhood.
Review:
A fascinating pot pourri of myths and fairy tale elements, put together with the Burton flair for modern Gothic and suburban satire but also a touch of poetry. Design and music departments have a field day, but it is the subtly different moral content that captures the imagination: Edward is not your archetypal rejected freak to begin with; in this society freaky is kinky. It is only when he resists being sucked dry of everything that makes him special that the less blessed turn on him like a pack of wolves. It could be an allegory of celebrity.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price
Synopsis:
In a mansion overlooking a suburb lives an unfinished creature. When an Avon lady desperate for business takes him into her family with the best of intentions, tensions flare up in the neighbourhood.
Review:
A fascinating pot pourri of myths and fairy tale elements, put together with the Burton flair for modern Gothic and suburban satire but also a touch of poetry. Design and music departments have a field day, but it is the subtly different moral content that captures the imagination: Edward is not your archetypal rejected freak to begin with; in this society freaky is kinky. It is only when he resists being sucked dry of everything that makes him special that the less blessed turn on him like a pack of wolves. It could be an allegory of celebrity.
Country: US
Technical: col 98m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Vincent Price
Synopsis:
In a mansion overlooking a suburb lives an unfinished creature. When an Avon lady desperate for business takes him into her family with the best of intentions, tensions flare up in the neighbourhood.
Review:
A fascinating pot pourri of myths and fairy tale elements, put together with the Burton flair for modern Gothic and suburban satire but also a touch of poetry. Design and music departments have a field day, but it is the subtly different moral content that captures the imagination: Edward is not your archetypal rejected freak to begin with; in this society freaky is kinky. It is only when he resists being sucked dry of everything that makes him special that the less blessed turn on him like a pack of wolves. It could be an allegory of celebrity.