You can't meet beasts, you may meet beasts

Kristoffer 2022-03-24 09:01:23

There are two stories that you must have heard or seen:

Story 1: A simple female college student was kidnapped by a seemingly kind-hearted middleman with ulterior motives and sold it to a ignorant peasant to be his wife. At first, the female college student wanted to escape, but after several attempts, she was desperate. College students have children, and the children need education, so they teach and educate people in the mountains with peace of mind, and the family lives a happy and healthy life.

The second story comes from the Japanese movie "Cultivating Desires in the Forbidden Room" series. It is a template. A wretched middle-aged man who lacks love. He arrests a student girl and does not do violence. , and can always be restrained at critical moments. In general, a man treats a girl very well, just like a husband treats his wife, giving her a bath, buying a nice dress, delicious food and so on. Over time, the girl fell in love with the man inexorably, so they lived happily together.

Psychologically, people call this behavioral state of victims who have a favorable impression on the perpetrator as Stockholm Syndrome.

Admittedly, it seems somewhat inappropriate to directly regard Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" as a "woman who was abducted into the mountains" with Stockholm Syndrome. But if you think about it, it's really like that. A man, fearing that he will become a beast and never return, imprisoned an avant-garde woman and tried to have a romantic relationship with her, and a group of servants who were analogous to the seven aunts and eight aunts did their best to make the woman fall in love with him. marry him. Perhaps compared to the backwardness of the environment in the mountains, the ignorance of the hero, and the hardships of life, the story in "Beauty and the Beast" is much better: the avant-garde young woman in a small town will not become a peasant woman because she is occupied, she will not The status is lowered, but it is precisely because of this that one step rises up a class.

In this "encounter", the young woman in the small town obtained and completed her identity. It was like a gamble. She kissed the beast desperately. In the end, the beast turned back into a prince, and the heroine also "transformed" into a princess. the life you want to live. So we call such a story an aphrodisiac for girls, a romantic Mary Sue.

Of course, all of the above are straight men's cancer-style ill-intentioned jokes. In fact, as a Mary Sue movie that awakens the hearts of girls, "Beauty and the Beast" can of course be watched, but I don't like it. Class films are not very cold.

Many scenes in the movie are like a dream, the pictures are beautiful, the costumes are dazzling, the male lead and the female lead are beautiful, even in the period of the beast, the male lead's appearance is not too bad, and the two people in the film are dressed up. The dance, the music is elegant and beautiful. Although the male protagonist was rude and domineering when we first met, he was also polite after changing his clothes. The heroine resisted in every possible way at first, but gradually softened. The overbearing president fell in love with me, but that's all.

In the movie, the heroine's impression of the hero has changed. There are about three things. The first one is that the heroine was besieged by wolves on the way to escape. The story, for the first time re-acquainted with the tragic male protagonist; then when I visited the library in the male protagonist's castle, the female protagonist, who had longed for the wide world in the book since childhood, was stunned, and the knowledgeable male protagonist won the second favorability; the third time Through the "portal" scripture left by the witch, the hero accompanied the heroine to the place where the heroine's parents lived when they were children. The heroine felt her mother's passing through the old objects and shed tears. For the first time, she cried undefended in front of the hero. It is symbolic to come out. From this moment on, both parties understand their respective pasts, and it is only a matter of time before they fall in love with each other.

The film's transformation of the relationship between the two is generally believable, but it is full of routines. As a classic fairy tale, this may be understandable, but it feels a little less meaningful.

The purpose of the movie "Beauty and the Beast" is nothing more than telling people not to judge people by their appearance, but the male protagonist is obviously handsome, and it is unreasonable to be handsome in the time of the beast; it is also telling people that it is not enough for a girl to be beautiful, she must be brave to pursue their own life. To feel that you are different, to be free from ignorance, and to be brave to discover the other side of the "beast".

However, here I still want to advise you, when you are imprisoned, you should escape as soon as possible, because the "kidnapper" you will meet will never be a rich, learned, domineering and gentle." Prince", you can't meet "beasts", only beasts. And you are too beautiful, even more beautiful than Emma Watson, and the "kidnappers" have many straight men. They are only interested in your beauty and want to skip the process of falling in love with you.

I'm sorry, I said some bad things, but I'm still too serious. I'm past the age of reading fairy tales, and suddenly I feel a little sentimental.

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Beauty and the Beast quotes

  • LeFou: So, you were...

    Monsieur Toilette: [restored to human] Yeah.

    LeFou: What will you do now?

    Monsieur Toilette: Brush my teeth!

    [goes off]

  • [Clothilde tries to kill Lumiere, Cogsworth shoots her]

    Cogsworth: [sees who it is] Oh, it can't be...

    [they fight]