Movie Review: Princess Bride

Princess Bride

Genre : Fantasy, Romantic, Comedy

 

   


At the beginning of this movie, a grandfather is reading a story, 'Princess Bride' to his sick grandson. 

   
There is a beautiful woman in the countryside in Florin. Her name is Buttercup. Westley, who lives near by her house, always obeys her order with "As you wish." Buttercup have a good feeling toward Westley, and Westley, too. They realize they love each other. However, Westley leave her to look for luck to be rich, but he is killed by Pirate Roberts and Buttercup heard it.

After 5 years, Buttercup is betrothed with the prince of Florin. One day, three robbers steal her, but a brilliant man in black appear and save her. He introduce himself, Pirate Roberts, who killed Westley! She pulls him and he rolls down the hill and said, "As you wish!" She recognizes Westley and goes back with him through a scary fire cave. However, the pricne catches them. He promises to free Westley if Buttercup comes back. Buttercup comes back but he broke the promise! He tortured Westley and Westley finally died. One day, Fezzik and Inigo Montoya, who are robbers and kidnaps Buttercup, gathered again and Inigo made a plan to take a revenge of his father. His father was killed by Count Rugen, who is the vizier and has six-fingers for each hand. However, they need Westley to enter the Castle. They save Westley with a wizard and succeed to enter with some trick. Even though Count stabs Inigo's stomach with his knife, Inigo succeeds his revenge! Westley also meets Buttercup and they(Westley, Buttercup, Inigo, and Fezzik) lived happily.



Before watching it, I speculated the movie will be childish due to the title of this movie. From this movie, however, I gained two significant lessons that we usually forget in daily life.

To begin with, 'Princess Bride' reminded the importance of friendship. There were three characters who made some disturbance and entered the castle. Westley did it for his love and Inigo did it for his revenge for his father. Then, what about Fezzik? Is there any reason why he must enter the castle? Actually, they were supposed to be killed if their operation was failed. Even if Fezzik could die, he helped these two men for friendship. Do you have any friends who can choose you between the life and you? Actually, I don't have. There is endless competition in our life. We should beat our friends in school examination, job interview, companies, and many others. People are also busy due to their work. For these reasons, it is not easy to have genuine friends nowadays. However, who can we depend on when our family passes away? Only support and helper will be friends. We should value the friendship that love and help each other. We should endeavor to make genuine friends.





In addition, there is nothing to fail if we are firm of purpose. We are usually afraid of failure, so some of us give up our precious dreams. In this movie, however, it emphasized we can succeed everything with a strong will. Do you think we can survive during the battle with a wild boar with no weapon? Do you think we can survive when your enemy stapped your stomach with a knife? You might answered "No." However, they all survived in the movie. Westley and Inigo had a strong will for their purpose. In my opinion, this movie wanted to tell us that no obstacle can disturb you with a strong will and do not give up.










In  conclusion, this movie was quite impressive. It gave me two imperative things: friendship and a strong will. However, I couldn't understand all this movie because I watched it without subtitle. I hope I will watch this movie again with subtitle.