Thursday 28 March 2013

Is Sleeping Beauty a scathing look at human nature?

This may just be me trying to be overly pretentious but philosophically, Sleeping Beauty could be more than just a film about a princess who find "twoo loove".

Sleeping Beauty is the story of a princess who is cursed by a wicked witch to die on her sixteenth birthday after she pricks her finger on a spindling wheel. However, her fairy godmothers change the spell so that she just sleeps for a bit until some bloke kisses her and everything returns to normal.

However, you could see it like this...

A girl is just living her life normally, originally and happily, until somebody (the witch) says something scathing about her. To stop herself getting hurt more she tries to be more like everybody else, creating a barrier (evil plant things) that make it harder for people to become close to her and find the real person.

It's just a thought...

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