Society that is what's wrong...
Well let's go to my 2nd Disney movie critique, well 3rd if u count Aladdin, though now that I think about I only talked about the song...anyway... So today's movie was Beauty and the Beast, I don't have a theme in specific (maybe bullying and egocentrism) so we'll just roll with the movie. So what's wrong? And what is illogical? Start with there is was a prince right, where are the parents? And why on earth would a prince, seemingly too young to understand not to judge a book by its cover, would open the door himself and talk to an 'ugly' stranger. Maybe didn't do alone but it's imply so. And wouldn't anyone who is not elite be asking for shelter with the service people instead of with the prince?
By the way what is the prince/beast name? Anyway the prince is too egocentric, arrogant, narcissistic and superficial and turns into a beast, and the whole castle and inhabitants ended enchanted as well. Why are the people punished as well for the prince's attitude? Can't really say whether they had fault or not in his attitude, but again it would've been the parents’ main fault.
Ok enough of him... For now...
So we go to the little village, where Belle resides, but as she so eloquently sang (I'll just paraphrase) she's sick and tired of the "quite little village with its little people." Why is she tired of it, you may ask? Well obviously because she "wants adventures in the great wide somewhere", and not only that but she is being bullied by the whole town. How come? Well she is "odd" "funny" and her dad is "crazy" or a genius depending on what's your point of view of inventors. She wants something "so much more than this provincial life", something the town's people find odd, she likes to read and think for herself, again in a little town that's odd for a girl (specially a pretty girl), and she is so not interested in Gaston (the town "handsome, attractive, best hunter, etc., etc., guy). So, this pretty girl likes to study, is not interest in stupid ("handsome") guys, has higher expectations in life, and is consider odd by everyone in town. Is it just me or we have another clear portrait of stupidity here, which by the way sound terribly familiar to high school. So Belle wants adventures and is being bully (don't tell me that people singing behind your back "what a pretty but funny (and odd) girl" she is, is not being bully)
obviously she wouldn't mind switching places with her father in an enchanted castle. Let's rewind a little; her genius father is an inventor, right? Sure why not, at least he tries, but he is so into it, that he kind of forgets/ignores his daughter is being criticized by his actions, and then when he finally gets one right he "goes off to the fair" to show it and leaves her all alone (where is the mother in all of this? Who knows?) But he ends up lost and later locked in a cell for trespass an enchanted castle. Meanwhile Gaston and the whole town prepare Gaston's wedding with Belle. Why the town would participate in such stupidity? Oh yeah because they are just following like (allow me to repeat myself) good-brainless-asses they are. Let’s fast forward a bit and we have Belle switching places with her father (why wasn't she taken as a prisoner too if she also trespassed the property?) So she is a prisoner, separated from her father, belongs to the castle and its beastly master and any expectations of something more gone or not? Well she did say she wanted more and she wanted adventures.
There is much more bulling and way, WAY, more egocentrism in the movie, but I don't feel like writing anymore, so maybe I'll fix it later.
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