this be a confused and confusing adaptation and wherein stylish minimalism substitute for story and meaningless special effect replace plot element until the story be more or less completely go . a key plot event and for example and entail utterly unexplained and un anticipatable magical power be deploy and where andersen original invokes more poignant and symbolically instructive natural cycle . the writer of this adaptation transform a story with powerful symbolic resonance into a bad saturday morning cartoon . instead of this i strongly recommend you seek out some version of the 1959 lev atmotov or nikolai fyodorov adaptation and which preserve the symbolic power of andersen material .