
As depicted in the film, albeit Hans Christian Andersen’s impoverished state of living under 19th century Danish society of Odnese, he had walked and lived the sphere of fantasy far from sharp misery. When his father passed away, Hans’s aunt realized she needed to send him away so he could figure how to live on his own. Just before he left, he had his palm read to find out: “all of Copenhagen will be lit up in your honor” according to the lady soothsayer. Since then, he had shoved himself place after place looking for a proper shelter which he struggled to keep due to a somewhat maladjusted, uncooperative surroundings every time.
No matter though how rough times had been, he didn’t let his mind falter. His imagination seemed to have wandered off his heart to stories that wove themselves more than his make-believe, as they later enthused great interest to poor and rich alike.
Hans’s foretold good fortune sought its trail at his adoption to Henrietta’s family whose head had come to welcome him without reservation and had him acquire provisions just as his real son would. The crippled Henrietta, whose secret affection for Hans was in no iota platonic, became most fond of him. He, in turn, had gone pre-occupied with Jenny Lind whom he wildly adored in person and through her voice magical that it couldn’t be helped to infer she had huge share to inspire his creation especially when he wrote “The Nightingale”. Hans more so projected Jenny to fill in the existence of “Thumbelina”; whereas, Rietta he imagined to be the “Little Mermaid” who turns into foam upon yielding to a broken heart when the prince she loves decides to marry his heart’s desire.
When Hans chanced upon Charles Dickens’s two sons who were playing with a toy soldier that broke off a leg by accident which saddened the boy’s face, Hans right then brought back the glow through his brave Tin Soldier’s tale. Such was the onset of his acquaintance with Dickens and the remarkable history of their friendship.
Since the time he finished his education courtesy of Rietta’s father, he had plunged onto discoveries with publishers offering auspicious deals while his passion to chase fantasy grew all the more. Even the princess had him over warmly at her private chambers where Hans told her of “The Princess and the Pea”.
At critical times, the movie has illumined much of the writer’s life from stories which occur to make striking relevance to his own affairs. It wasn’t long until the number of fanatics multiplied to perch themselves around Andersen’s fairy tales (especially “The Ugly Duckling” among others) and rendered individual explorations. Though the super nature of these tales had flared almost everyone’s dreams and love to being, it came rather mocking to Hans that his went on a sour. He didn’t see it coming at first when reality instead was overtaking the end. Jenny Lind didn’t opt him for reality despite his ardent pursuit of her, and realizing that in coincidence with Henrietta’s untimely death which he deplored somehow.
Hallmark Entertainment has captured the essence in Hans Christian Andersen’s character (being an ambivert that he was) which perhaps did loom a reek of him out of excruciating wonders.


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