After careful consideration of the movies I have seen in my time, I have come to the conclusion that all those fairy tale, Disney movies like "Aladdin" and "The Little Mermaid" comprise a large part of my movie repertoire.
When I was younger, those movies were always interesting because that princess was the prettiest and those animals could talk. And guess what! Everyone always seemed to live happily ever after. While they were all similar enough, they each had their own appeal.
As I got older, I never picked those movies when one needed to be picked, but I just happened to be walking by as my sibling were watching them, and of course I had nothing better to do so I may as well sit down and watch. They are a funny story, an easy laugh and a good way to spend time with family. What fun we have afterwards, imitating voices and repeating lines, it goes on forever.
Being the daughter of a teacher and a life coach, I learnt quickly that after watching a movie, we each choose different morals and make decisions based on how we see movies compared to our own lives. For children, fairy tales help clarify important points and alleviate fears. They help to easily distinguish between what is right and what is wrong, what is evil and what is good.
All fairy tale movies tend to start with a sentence that is kin to "once upon a time…" and they all end with "happily ever after". They have delicate females who fall swiftly in love and strong brave males that always come to the rescue. Ugly beasts that haunt the woods and wicked step mothers are definitely bad, and of course, animals can speak and will help in any trouble. Sometimes fairies and genies exits and there are other worlds out there besides our own. The poor and the good hearted always triumph, and fears are conquered in times of trial.
In the past, these movies were a great pastime, an easy way to entertain children by telling a story and passing on a message. They were often legends and old wives' tales passed down from generation to generation. These movies play a large role in my opinion. They simplify things. They make every thing "black or white," (so to speak), it is either wrong or right, good or bad. These movies give the feeling that, yeah, sometimes bad things happen, but in the end, it will be ok.
We live in a world where sometimes the evil person is not always so ugly and easily identified, the princess is not always so pretty and slim, and sometimes, the poor stay poor forever. The good at heart don't always end up heroes, the fairies can't save you and you cannot conjure things out of thin air. The dead cannot be saved by will alone and muscles don't grow overnight.
Once upon a time there was a fairy tale movie. In the movie there was a beautiful princess and her charming prince. They experienced a great adventure and in the end, they lived happily ever after. If only real life was so easy.
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