The Tale Of Desperaux
The Tale of Desperaux explores the story of a mouse named Desperaux in his quest of resqueing the princess. It's a kind of a fairytale but here the heroes is no prince charming but a cute little mouse with big ears (cute!) and a heart of a gentleman. What I can say about this one is that the way the story was told, it reminds me of why fairytales or cartoons always mesmerises me everytime I watched it. Seriously I've been looking for this movie for a long time before I got my hands on it. It's very hard to find it in Malaysia. But above all the waiting and searching, it all paid when I finally watched it last few days.
The story reveals a lot of emotions. It shares with us how longing felt and what it can make us become. It is so much like a reality when we get to the part where the narrator said something that meant when you were sad or felt guilty, you tend to finger point other people that you'd think would can be the reason of why you were feeling as so even when it all started from yourself. It is so much true in real life that whenever there's something wrong that made us felt sad or full of anger even when we do not know why we did so, we tend to say that other people causes that. Even when it's not true (some maybe not 100% true), and we tend to want to hurt that person. But in the end, we didn't feel satisfied, we grieve more instead.
I love the sentimental parts of this movie. It is not s much of a cartoon when you really listen to the words the characters said. It's more of a teaching for the whole movie. Like when you listen tothe bedtime stories that your parents shared, of read it somewhere when you were young, it is often by the end of the story a moral to learn. Something that we need to apply in our daily lives as what we were told. In The Tale of Desperaux, the moral of the story lies in almost everywhere at any parts of it.
You know when you're different from other people and you tend to not care to change because you just knew that it's OKAY to be different. Well, that is what happened to Desperaux. He was born different from the other mice. He's so small, so confident of himself, he does not care if the other opposes him because he knew it's nothing wrong with what he did. Desperaux is an example of being so different, means nothing different at all, nothing less, just SPECIAL.
I somehow can relate him with myself. I'm small in size compared to other friends. Normal but small. I tend to do things differently from other people. I did my stuf my way and does not follow the rules when I think it doesn't apply to. Just like Desperaux, adventure is everywhere, you just need to find it, and you can be whatever you want to be, even when you're a mouse, you CAN have a heart of a gentleman.
But above all, the most important thing that you really should look into in this movie is of FORGIVENESS. Forgiveness is something that you cannot only think about it in your mind, but you need to let it free in your heart. Most of us says what is important in our heart is sincerity. We should not only be sincere in forgiving other people, but we have to be sincere enough to seek for forgiveness from others. Ego always stands in the way of this. ESPECIALLY in grown ups. So, grown ups, here's the deal, if you ask your children to take example of you on all the good things that you've done...open your eyes, because forgiving and seeking for forgiveness is something that you should totally learn from you kids, because they knew a whole lot better than you do in the ego department.
Before I end the review (yay! my first review on this blog!! HAHA) that i thought should be short but ended up LONG! I leave you with something to ponder, a quote towards the end of the Tale of Desperaux.
"Narrator: Ok, remember when we said that grief was the strongest thing a person could feel? Well, it isn't. It's forgiveness because a single act of forgiveness can change everything."
Things I like:
The character Desperaux and Roscuro
Lots of funny parts that left me laughing out loud.
The baby Desperaux!
The whole thing!
The story reveals a lot of emotions. It shares with us how longing felt and what it can make us become. It is so much like a reality when we get to the part where the narrator said something that meant when you were sad or felt guilty, you tend to finger point other people that you'd think would can be the reason of why you were feeling as so even when it all started from yourself. It is so much true in real life that whenever there's something wrong that made us felt sad or full of anger even when we do not know why we did so, we tend to say that other people causes that. Even when it's not true (some maybe not 100% true), and we tend to want to hurt that person. But in the end, we didn't feel satisfied, we grieve more instead.
I love the sentimental parts of this movie. It is not s much of a cartoon when you really listen to the words the characters said. It's more of a teaching for the whole movie. Like when you listen tothe bedtime stories that your parents shared, of read it somewhere when you were young, it is often by the end of the story a moral to learn. Something that we need to apply in our daily lives as what we were told. In The Tale of Desperaux, the moral of the story lies in almost everywhere at any parts of it.
You know when you're different from other people and you tend to not care to change because you just knew that it's OKAY to be different. Well, that is what happened to Desperaux. He was born different from the other mice. He's so small, so confident of himself, he does not care if the other opposes him because he knew it's nothing wrong with what he did. Desperaux is an example of being so different, means nothing different at all, nothing less, just SPECIAL.
I somehow can relate him with myself. I'm small in size compared to other friends. Normal but small. I tend to do things differently from other people. I did my stuf my way and does not follow the rules when I think it doesn't apply to. Just like Desperaux, adventure is everywhere, you just need to find it, and you can be whatever you want to be, even when you're a mouse, you CAN have a heart of a gentleman.
But above all, the most important thing that you really should look into in this movie is of FORGIVENESS. Forgiveness is something that you cannot only think about it in your mind, but you need to let it free in your heart. Most of us says what is important in our heart is sincerity. We should not only be sincere in forgiving other people, but we have to be sincere enough to seek for forgiveness from others. Ego always stands in the way of this. ESPECIALLY in grown ups. So, grown ups, here's the deal, if you ask your children to take example of you on all the good things that you've done...open your eyes, because forgiving and seeking for forgiveness is something that you should totally learn from you kids, because they knew a whole lot better than you do in the ego department.
Before I end the review (yay! my first review on this blog!! HAHA) that i thought should be short but ended up LONG! I leave you with something to ponder, a quote towards the end of the Tale of Desperaux.
"Narrator: Ok, remember when we said that grief was the strongest thing a person could feel? Well, it isn't. It's forgiveness because a single act of forgiveness can change everything."
Things I like:
The character Desperaux and Roscuro
Lots of funny parts that left me laughing out loud.
The baby Desperaux!
The whole thing!Here's some of the info of The Tale of Desperaux:
Casts:
Matthew Broderick as Desperaux
Dustin Hoffman as Roscuro
Emma Watson as Princess Pea
Tracey Ullman as Miggery Sow
Sigourney Weaver as the Narrator
Kevin Kline as Andre
William H. Macy as Lester
Stanley Tucci as Boldo
Ciaran Hinds as Botticelli
Official Site:
The Tale of Desperaux
Brief Plot:
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
(source IMDB)
Casts:
Matthew Broderick as Desperaux
Dustin Hoffman as Roscuro
Emma Watson as Princess Pea
Tracey Ullman as Miggery Sow
Sigourney Weaver as the Narrator
Kevin Kline as Andre
William H. Macy as Lester
Stanley Tucci as Boldo
Ciaran Hinds as Botticelli
Official Site:
The Tale of Desperaux
Brief Plot:
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
(source IMDB)
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