The Storyline goes like this:
A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local "Avon" representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn't used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body's heart. But life isn't always so sweet…
Edward kills Jim after Edward sees him hurt Kim. He and Kim know that if he goes back to Suburbia they'll kill him, so they kiss, she tells him she loves him, and she leaves him in his mansion. They never see each other again. It turns out the old woman narrating the story is Kim, telling the story of Edward to her granddaughter, and that he is the reason that snow falls from the sky from then on, because he's making ice sculptures.
its a hard one, because the ending is such a classic "it has to be this way" ending. Kim loved Ed, Ed loves Kim, but they can't be together in the end because of everything that has transpired (killing Jim, Ed's misshapes with the community and the community's ridiculous first idolatry then hatred and fear towards Ed, etc.) I of course always wanted Ed and Kim to run away together and live somewhere where people accept them and life would be better, but of course, the movie is an allegory for life and how things rarely work out that way when two people who love each other are radically different, at least in the eyes of society. of course, these things can be overcome, but sometimes life becomes such a huge mess, its just better to sacrifice love and happiness for things to go back to "normal". its sucks, but this is always what I think of when this movie ends. the price of normalcy.
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