“EdwardScissorhands," like Burton's other films, attends less to story than to situation. Children,and those who see the film through children's eyes,will definitely find great fun in Burton’s eye-filling fantasies. They'll delight in plants that carefully pruned into animals’s figures, snowflakes flying all over the small town, and maybe most importantly ,a Munster-styled mansion. And there, on the edge of civilization, lives our poor hero, all alone.Actually,some reviewers even pointed out that this film borrows chapters from other fables, say, the famous beauty and beast. However, if this is true, our hero Edward, are faced with a more severe situation that any curved prince. If you don’t believe it, please take a good look at his scissors.As Tim Burton said on the symbolism of the film, "There's quite an interesting design to a pair of scissors. How do they work? What do they do? They're both simple and complicated, creative and destructive.If we are just talking about a tool,we can make an approval conclusion here that the scissors are helpful and quite flexible. However , when they belong to Edward ,and become the most important part of who he is, they are evil enough to make the innocent man stuck in a dilemma all his lifetime. The scissors marked him unfinished and alien to the so-called civilization. He has an true human heart, but has to wear the scary irony scissorhands, he is an expert in spurning plants, sculpting ice angels ,but will surely destroy everything he try to pick. He is ready to help whenever help is in need, but was deeply misunderstood and isolated by the civilized people in the end.So unlike princes in every fairy tale, our hero Edward doesn’t have a decent status to return back to,life only give him a desperate fact that however many sacrifices he makes for his girl ,he can never dry a tear from her eyes. Edward can not break the dilemma ,neither can the director. Burton’s faithfulness to the dark side of fairy tales finally separated the lovers and cast Edward in the deserted castle. Though won't sit well with those who want happy endings, it’s reasonable and realistic. As an reviewer said,after all,it’s a fable starts with snow,and snow still belongs to the saddest season.