This is the real fairy tale

Sheila 2022-03-14 14:12:22

Favorite scene: The young Maleficent gently threw the pebble into the lake and told Stefan, who wanted to steal it, that I didn't throw it away, just sent it home. In a single sentence, it revealed the true meaning of the Elf Kingdom: everything has spirit, regardless of fairy beasts, woods and rocks, but human beings start from their own perceptions, and they think they are different because of their different shapes.

The idea of ​​using iron as a tool to restrain the spirit race is wonderful. There is no iron in nature, but human beings finally smelt iron under the drive of desire. What is the difference between the high heat of smelting and the flames of hell? Most of the things cast by iron are weapons, battleships, shackles, and cages, all of which are against the original natural nature of human beings as spirits. Ironically, destiny is self-made after all.

I also like the interpretation of true love. It has nothing to do with gender or blood, but comes from long-term selfless giving, purposeless intimacy dictated by nature.

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Maleficent quotes

  • [last lines]

    Narrator: So you see, the story is not quite as you were told, and I should know, for I was the one they called "Sleeping Beauty". In the end, my kingdom was united not by a hero or a villain, as legend had predicted, but by one who was both hero *and* villain. And her name was Maleficent.

  • Flittle: [as she, Knotgrass, and Thistlewit fly above the forest, on their way to finding Aurora] It's so good to be small again! Look at my *feet*! I love my tiny little *feet*!

    Knotgrass: Pay attention! We have to find Aurora, or the king will have our heads!