Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
“What did you love about Maleficent?,” I asked my daughter after our very happy Father’s Day at the movies without the men.
“She’s very pretty!” she smiled. May we all be as easy to please! Indeed, what’s not to love about a strong and beautiful heroine–albeit a villain, too?
Maleficent is the wronged and misunderstood woman in this revisionist-backstory fairytale. She suffers the deepest betrayal imaginable from the person she loves and trusts the most, the one with whom she shares her first “true love’s” kiss. While it is mainly about bloodlust after being violated and stripped of our power, it is also about the journey of moving forward and making the most of what is. I like how it reverses the pedestrian notion of true love, a necessary expansion of every child’s understanding of what real love can be.
Best of all, I love how it is a cautionary tale against quick judgments and our propensity to take every “victim’s” side. Like King Stefan, it is human nature to choose the version of the story that makes us look good and pitiful. It takes courage to notice that when we feel like “Woe is me!,” there is an angle of culpability we’re not admitting. For in every beauty, there is a beast. And in every villain, a heroine who can save herself.
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xoxox
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 09:41:12
A couple of weeks ago as I sat talking with a friend she was disappointed that her niece could not go with her to see “Maleficent”. I thought back to a comment I had a few blogs ago about seeing a movie that typically is not my type. I offered to go see it with her. She responded, knowing me, “you don’t want to see that!”. I have open mind or was it more a snack that she had just told me about having at the movies, a jalapeno sandwich. Two pieces of popcorn with a slice of jalapeno in between. Luckily within an hour her niece text-ed her she could make it after all. Got out of that one!
What an interesting setting for this weeks blog photos. It looks like a bedroom, very wild and dramatic. Could I sleep in there without having some strange dreams?
Thank you for sharing, beautiful Goddess! Kind of changes the dream theme. 😉
Mountain
Jun 20, 2014 @ 12:22:44
Live (and dream) dangerously, Mountain!
xoxox