When Kim returns home, Edward is smitten with her, but years of isolation have made him very shy and quiet. Edward doesn't say much and expresses his anxiety by twitching his scissors.
One of the neighborhood ladies, Joyce (Kathy Baker), is attracted to Edward, and attempts to seduce him. Edward doesn't know what's going on and rejects Joyce's advances.
Edward soon finds himself the neighborhood outcast — he's just too strange for suburbia. Kim's thuggish boyfriend Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) is jealous of Edward, having seen how Edward looks at her. We know a confrontation is inevitable.
As I've mentioned earlier, Johnny Depp is marvelous as Edward, conveying emotion with his body language and facial expressions. Edward is a gentle soul, but is cursed because, due to the sharp scissors he has for hands, he would only hurt someone he cared about.
Kim is finding herself attracted to Edward's sweet and innocent nature. In a beautiful scene, we see Edward carving an ice sculpture of an angel as Kim observes, dancing in the "snow" created by Edward's ice sculpture. Kim falls in love with Edward, but it can never work. In one scene she asks Edward to embrace her, but he cannot due to his sharp hands. She instead embraces Edward in a touching moment.
Circumstances bring about Edward's fall from grace in the eyes of the community. Edward saves Kevin from being hit by a car, but in doing so accidentally cuts Kevin. The community thinks Edward did it on purpose (he had previously accidentally cut Kim's hand) and turns on him, led by Kim's hotheaded boyfriend. Edward is forced back to the mansion and a confrontation with boyfriend Jim turns deadly.
Of course, Edward Scissorhands is a fairy tale, and Burton's vision of suburbia, with its cookie-cutter, pastel houses, is something a little removed from reality. The screenplay by Caroline Thompson explores many universal themes of loneliness and acceptance. Edward, the outsider, cannot touch anyone without hurting them. I think we all can relate to feelings of loneliness and longing, of wanting to reach out to someone and being unable to do so.
Article comments
1 - Oliver Cox
was it a real gothic mansion used? if so, where were the gothic mansion scenes shot?
2 - nathan
does anyone no peg's duaghter kim's discription of there biographical details strenghts accomplishments, talents what habit of mind do they appy with how does her stenght impact on the other characters in the flim. if you no any of the following comment