Absolutely Beautiful..

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2014)

Direction, cinematography, acting, and plot... all beautiful. Just like the creations that Scissorhands creates in the film, every element of this movie is hauntingly beautiful - artistically pleasing, with undertones of hurt and pain.
Edward Scissorhands is the creation of a brilliant inventor, who successfully created a fully functional human from machine parts. However, he dies before he is able to give Edward his last finishing touch: human hands. Edward remains isolated and alone inside his dark castle, longing to know about the outside world while passing away his time letting his imagination run free in the elaborate hedges he creates in the garden. It is not until a curious Avon representative, Peg, goes to the castle and meets Edward that he becomes integrated into her pastel-perfect community - finally finding the human interaction he so craved...unfortunately although things start off looking good, it doesn't quite end so well.
"You can't touch anything without destroying it," is one quote that really stuck with me in this movie. The fact that Edward is missing hands is significant - human hands are symbolic of touch, of connection - and without them Edward is forever disconnected. He has so much talent within his scissorhands, but he is unable to establish a true human connection - in a way, this can be interpreted as a reflection of artistic prodigies in general (Michael Jackson, Tim Burton himself) - able to create and entertain, but are inherently isolated and lonely.
A deeply touching movie, a must-see for anyone who hasn't already watched.