Star Man
06-01-2014, 05:08 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pgmFAOgm5E"Maleficent" deals with a great theme of the conflict between patriarchy and authentic humanity or between the masculine and feminine. One world is the world of patriarchy with weapons and men in armor mindlessly attacking the world of magic and wonder. Maleficent's world of magic and wonder is much like the world Pandora, and its inhabitants are a metaphor for the Na'vi. Maleficent is betrayed by a male who cuts off her wings, a metaphor for preventing her from soaring as a being. The wounded woman casts a spell on the king's female baby. The baby will fall into a deep sleep at age 16. What a brilliant metaphor for what happens to young women in America. They fall into a cultural spell and are in thrall to the idea of marriage, and many completely lose themselves and become victims of domestic violence or just accept their role as sex object and placater in the male-dominated family system.
In the movie, Maleficent defeats the patriarch king. A metaphorically beautiful final scene shows the armored king lying dead and defeated. Maleficent's dragon frees himself. Maleficent has her power of flight returned because Aurora dared to think for herself, to be, to exist and to find the imprisoned wings and free them to be united with Maleficent.
If only Kevin Fallon, the author of this intellectually weak article (see https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/01/the-maleficent-screenwriter-also-wrote-the-lion-king-and-beauty-and-the-beast.html for the review), had told the metaphor of the movie accurately, but he could not apparently. He seems trapped in the world of patriarchy and unable to see metaphor or anything deeper than a surface discussion of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Frozen" and other movies that in fact are components of humanity's collective unconscious but are not appreciated for the messages they are trying to convey.
Star Man
[ Maleficent is playing at the Rialto see here for showtimes (https://www.rialtocinemas.com/index.php?location=sebastopol&film=2014_maleficent) - Barry]
In the movie, Maleficent defeats the patriarch king. A metaphorically beautiful final scene shows the armored king lying dead and defeated. Maleficent's dragon frees himself. Maleficent has her power of flight returned because Aurora dared to think for herself, to be, to exist and to find the imprisoned wings and free them to be united with Maleficent.
If only Kevin Fallon, the author of this intellectually weak article (see https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/01/the-maleficent-screenwriter-also-wrote-the-lion-king-and-beauty-and-the-beast.html for the review), had told the metaphor of the movie accurately, but he could not apparently. He seems trapped in the world of patriarchy and unable to see metaphor or anything deeper than a surface discussion of "Beauty and the Beast" and "Frozen" and other movies that in fact are components of humanity's collective unconscious but are not appreciated for the messages they are trying to convey.
Star Man
[ Maleficent is playing at the Rialto see here for showtimes (https://www.rialtocinemas.com/index.php?location=sebastopol&film=2014_maleficent) - Barry]