Edward Scissorhands Meaning
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anonymous Jun 28th 2009, 18:51 report
This is a humorous satire of suburbia and a fable. It has symbolism beneath the surface and has understanding of not belonging. Edward's scissorhands symbolize his difficulty to reach out to others, to communicate. And he may harm people literally with his scissors or figuratively with his trouble communicating. And his house that is profoundly different from the rest of the neighborhood also demonstrates his inability to fit in.
This movie also pokes fun at suburbia by having nearly identical houses and showing how irrestible gossip is in such a dull society. And seems to criticize suburbia's difficulty in accepting things that are different or foreign such as Edward and how they corrupted such a pure, naive individual. -
anonymous Nov 11th 2010, 10:21 report
An old man on the hill (high up), creating his mechanical universe, until he decides to create someone in his own image. Sounds familiar? But what happened? The Creator is dead (or at least so says postmodernism) and man is left alone, alienated and... unfinished. What he is missing is his hands. Hands represent action in the mundane, action on the horizontal line (that is way in christian symbolism Jesus's hands are in horizontal, while his being is in the vertical, in the otherworldly, beyond time). Edwards action in this world cause unintentional harm to himself and others, although he is the very sensitive soul- in fact, he represents an artist! In the end he is forced to go back in those heights where his inspiration really comes from, alone, of course. But he immortalizes himself through his art- there is snow every year, which never was before. Snow comes from him making his ice sculptures, and ice is crystalization, something that is lasting.
Hope you dig the interepretation,
Zorko Sirotic
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