Film
Exciting, funny, well-structured. The 50th Disney Classic consecrates the revival attempt perpetrated by The Princess and the Frog by managing to mix classic Disney storytelling with some modern touches. The Grimm brothers' fairy tale is in fact respected, but adapted to the production company's stylistic features: the protagonist Rapunzel is kidnapped in swaddling clothes and locked up in a tower by Mother Gothel, who is only interested in the healing power of her magical hair, and convinced by her that she is too weak to face the outside world. In this way, she manages to keep her under control for years and prevent her escape with a psychological violence that in some ways is similar to the imprisonment of Quasimodo. But if the relationship between Frollo and Quasimodo was that of a guardian/pupil who imposes a certain detachment, that between Rapunzel and Gothel is burdened by the fact that one sees the other as a mother and their relationship directly involves the emotional sphere. Her story thus becomes a metaphor for the breaking of those psychological chains that keep us trapped and that often do not exist, but are the result of a lie that we keep telling ourselves.
Art
Rapunzel herself is a painter who paints what she sees through the window while locked in her tower, namely lights floating over a hilly landscape. How can one not think of Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night? These large rotating stars, in two colours, suspended over the nocturnal hills are among the most fascinating details ever painted by the Dutch painter. It was painted in difficult 1889, the year of his admission to the Saint Remy asylum. The directors' choice to include the Dutch painter's painting in the cartoon should not be accidental, probably a way of creating a parallelism between Van Gogh, who was often so far removed from society and who painted from the window of the asylum in which he was locked up, and Rapunzel, who was held prisoner for 16 years in a tower far removed from reality.
An example for all is Rapunzel, inspired by the Grimm brothers' fairy tale of the same name; the protagonist in fact has very long, magical blond hair that she lets down as needed from the tower in which she has been locked up by her stepmother. In the tower in which she lives, among the thousands of activities with which Rapunzel tries to fill her monotonous days, there is painting, a hobby that goes almost unnoticed among the many that are shown to us by the rapid shots, however we can see that the young princess paints a sky with lanterns that rise up, hovering like stars in the sky.
These lanterns, like lights floating in the sky, which constitute a central leitmotif of the film, we find in many scenes (perhaps the best known and best loved is the one in which Rapunzel and Flynn are on a boat, at night on the sea in a romantic and dreamy atmosphere, surrounded by lanterns as bright as stars). These scenes cannot fail to call to mind the famous starry nights painted by the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. In particular, the Starry Night on the Rhone
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