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Voodoo Girl
shows Burton fear of being hurt by someone close to him because the girl cannot
let anyone get close to her because of the pins in her heart. If someone got to
close the pain would remind Burton or the Voodoo Girl in this instance to pull
away because if the pin goes into her heart then she is basically dead. The pins
could represent the pain Burton felt from his parents as a child. Parents are
supposed to be the closest people to a child and Burton’s parents hurt him the
most by rejecting him from, basically, birth. The pins were in put in Tim Burton’s
heart by his parents and every time he would try to get close to them, they
hurt him. Burton was just different as a child, like Voodoo Girl, nothing wrong
with that, but because of the pins put in Burton by his parents he will never
be able to love without pain because the pins will only push in further.
The
reference to pins being a curse suggests that they were put in the Voodoo Girl
by a magician, or archetypes. Being hurt by love is also an archetype. With love
comes pain, which is a common thought among people, especially now-a-days with
the divorce rate at 50 percent. Love completes pain like death completes life;
I think this is how Burton views love, which is why he created Voodoo Girl.
I
think the pins could also represent the outsider trying to be close with
people. Like when Edward Scissorhands was trying to be a part of suburbia but
people ended up rejecting him and hurting him because he was trying to get
close or he hurt other people. When the outsider is trying to get close to
people he just gets hurt because people keep rejecting him or sticking pins in
his heart. This is represented in Voodoo Girl by all the zombie men that follow
her around but end up hurting her when she tries to get close to them, like the
outsider. I think Voodoo Girl represents the pain that comes with getting close
to someone and the risk that they could, at any time, pull the pin out and destroy
you.
I like your interpretation a lot and I think it's very perceptive as it relates to Tim Burton's life. Usually, I think of voodoo dolls relating to karma: if you've done something bad, you'll get stuck and thus feel pain due to your wrongdoing. However, I like that you connect them to the pain he felt as a child, pain that was undeserved but received anyway. He often felt like an outsider and his parents neglect of him did not enhance that situation at all. Like you said, he will now never be able to feel love without pain, which is kind of heartbreaking. That makes me think that every pin could represent a different person he has become close to. In a way, we all figuratively have pins sticking in ourselves. They are tied to people who are connected to us emotionally and have power over controlling our emotions.
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this story, I was interested by Voodoo Girl's use of hypnotism on guys even though she could not love them without pain. It shows that she still wants to love and might even allow herself to do so despite the fact that it hurts her. Such is the nature of love. I believe that it is impossible to love without pain. That everybody has pins in their heart. People just choose to ignore them until they are glaringly apparent and then don't know what to do about it. Voodoo girl is just more in touch with this notion than others are. She is therefor better equipped to love. In my opinion...
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