Posts Tagged ‘Maleficent’

Recovering an enchanted world

Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

In turning Maleficent into a feminist morality play, Disney subverts the nature of fairy tales and suppresses any sense of magic and moral logic. For the child—and the adult who knows there is still a child in all of us—fairy tales reveal truths about ourselves and the world. As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim stated in his Read more