What was the point of this movie?

the point was to scare everyone. seriously did you see the kids david bowie hair ?? ewwww ahha

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It's been about 20 years since I saw this movie, and then only parts of it.

But reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book Le Petit Prince before you attempt to sit through a second viewing, might help. It's more like metaphor-heavy philisophy, wrapped up like a story for children.

There's an online English text of it here (along with translations in quite a few other languages): http://korczak.com/Exupery/englisch/0.html

It's a fairly quick read.

The plot is that a little boy lives on a planet, and this planet is about the size of a house, and it has three tiny volcanos on it (but one of them doesn't work) and a rose, and the little boy can talk to the rose, and the little boy loves the rose because he thinks it's the only rose in the universe.

One day the little boy decides he wants to see other worlds, and each world has a different grown up (all represent different ways that most adults are idiots) and finally he makes it to earth, where he discoveres that his rose isn't the only one, but a kind fox teaches him some wisdom, telling him that his rose is unique because it's HIS rose, blah blah blah. The boy also meets a snake that tells him that if the boy ever gets tired of Earth, he can make him go back to HIS world.

The little boy decides he wants to go back to his world, and travels back to the Sahara where he originally met the snake, and on his way he meets a pilot who crash landed there (the narrator) The narrator befriends the prince, and then the prince eventually tells him he's got a meetin with a snake. The boy tells the narrator that the snake will relieve his soul from it's earthly entrapment (his body) and it becomes clear that the boy actually has to die in order to travel to different planets and whatnot, because his body's too heavy. The snake kills the kid, he goes back to his planet, and the Pilot goes home.

End movie.

"I have the heart of a child-it sits in a jar on my desk." -Stephen King

I find amazing how people on imdb have trouble interpretating movies and tend to take everything literally.

Guys, it`s obvious. The Little Prince`s visit never happened physically, it was a dream/mirage the pilot had while lost in the desert. However, the point of the movie is what the Prince represents, no matter if he was real or not. The "Little Prince" was the pilot`s lost childhood, his adventures are metaphors for the pilot`s experiences discovering the world, adventures that lead him to "earth" or "the adults` real world" where he dies. His death represents the end of childhood. Another exemple, the "Rose" obviously represents the pilot`s first young love, the first girlfriend. Later he find`s out that there are many other "roses" out there, which makes him sad cause he thinks that his first girlfriend wasn`t that special, but then he realizes that she was special to him cause she was "his" girl, and vice versa.

The movie is all about how people change from childhood to adulthood, and the experiences that work that change. The moral of the story is that, even though the childhood is gone, it can still smile to you if you look to the stars and remember it.

My parents took me to see this when I was 7. I didn't understand it at all. This is the same metaphysical crap that's in Pippin. Glad my parents took me to the Witch Mountain movies. I much preferred them!