Edward Scissorhands Film Review

The Tim Burton Film, Edward Scissorhands, is about a man made character named Edward. Edwards’s creator was a scientist who unfortunately died before he was finished making him. In fact, he was nearly done with Edward but was unable to give the character hands. Therefore, Edward dangerously has scissors for hands, hence his name. After the death of the inventor, Edward was left alone in the mansion on top of the hill. A door-by-door sales representative named Peg was determined to sell her product to the owners to the mansion, so she walked inside of the house when no one answered the door. She was surprised to see Edward in the corner of the upstairs room, all alone. Peg has a big heart and made Edward come live with her and her family so

The ending goes back to the grandma and little girl. Basically, the older woman was telling the little girl the whole story of Edward throughout the movie, the audience now realizes this and are now thinking why is this older lady and girl are so important. But what she doesn’t tell the audience is that the older woman is the daughter that Edward fell in love with. The line that really gave it away that the older lady was the daughter was when she was talking about the snow and her saying “sometimes you can still see me dancing it in” which is a reference to the scene where the daughter was dancing in the snow earlier in the movie. That was the line that the filmmakers were trying to hold off as long as possible. Holding that line till the very last minute of the film made the movie have the most intense “aha” like moment. Immediately after she said that dialog, we cut back to Edwards house. Where Peg found Edward in the beginning stands a bunch of ice sculptures that Edward created, one being a sculpture of the daughter dancing in the snow. Editing wise, the juxtaposition between the two scenes fitted nicely together to have an overall great ending that the audience will understand. I believe that they did the jump cuts between the bedroom and the mansion is to show that she really is thinking and still cares for Edward after all of these years. I