re: The majority vs you in opinions given to movies

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Keeping your daughter locked away so that she develops social issues seems to be a really shitty way of preparing her for dealing with people who might have reason to be afraid of her.

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That's sort of the point. The film doesn't posit that the parents' strategy is a positive. In fact, quite the opposite. The resolution of the film is the daughters rejecting their parents' advice.

And it's more than one line, the movie plays on our own preconceptions and expectations of a fairy tale, only to subvert them in the finale. We jumped to conclusions because we'd been trained to do so by decades of Disney movies. Meanwhile, the answer had been staring us in the face, but we moved past it in the expectation of what True Love means in a fairy tale.


Oh, Waterworld sucks. So here's one person who hates it.