Saturday morning I took Kelly, Matt, and Zac to see Malificent at the Paramount Theater. My company once again was paying for a family movie. I very much enjoyed the movie and was pleased with the substantial changes that they did to the old story of Sleeping Beauty. It is the story behind the story and the villians are not who you think. I thought it was well done. Kelly did not care for it I think because it messes up the original fairy tale and makes Malificent more ‘human’ and relatable rather than the total and undeniable villian from the earlier story. Zac thought it was “ok” and had many criticisms about the acting. Personally I thought it was very good and I might even buy it when it comes out. Disney is definitely continuing the changes made so popular with Frozen this year in redefining what constitutes “true love”. Well done. I was thinking more today about the noticible changes in how Disney is portraying the concept of “true love”. It made me think of a talk I heard maybe 30 years ago discribing the Greeks use of three different words for love and how that is important. In looking in Wikapedia tonight I found that there are actually four (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love). The three that I have known for years are: eros, philia, and agape. Eros is the physical or romantic boy and girl love, philia is the brotherly (or sisterly) love or love between friends, and the highest form of love agape is the selfless and self-sacrificing love like that of God for man or a parent for a child. In the older Disney shows (like before this year) they always seemed to depict romatic love (eros) as having magic that overcame evil, then last year with Frozen they broke that tradition by depicting sisterly love (philia) as having that magical power, but I was very pleased to see that them in this movie a move to presenting the very highest form of love as the true power of love…the form of love that motivates a parent to be willing to sacrifice anything even their own lives for their child…an earth bound model of the kind of love that God has for His children. It is good to see Disney’s writers reaching beyond the cardboard cutout plot of the original story (as sweet as it was) and reaching for a higher concept of the eternal kind of love and of it’s power to change and purify a bitter and broken heart in the most unlikely of characters.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:26:47 +0000
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