#7 Beauty and The Beast

In the prologue of the film, a fairy disguised as an old woman who wanted to stay overnight in the palace of a prince with a single rose costs. When the prince drove them away, the fairy was angry and cursed him into a hideous beast and the waiters are condemned to household furnitures. The fairy gave Beast a magic mirror in which the beast can see distant places. It also gave the beast fairy roses. On the 21st anniversary of the Beast, the last rose petals will fall off. Before the last rose petals fall, if he learns to love and be loved in return, Beast and his servants will change to mankind. But if the opposite happens, Beast and the servants will not be able to become human again. Years later, there was a beautiful girl named Belle living in a small town in France with her father Maurice, an inventor. Belle really likes to read until she was considered weird by the villagers. An arrogant hunter named Gaston tried to woo Belle.

Beauty and the beast story has its advantages and good lessons. First of all, Belle was willing to sacrifice anything for the sake of her father. For example, Belle managed to find her father. She is willing to turn herself with his father, a prisoner of the beast. Besides, this movie taught us to save the people that was in danger. For example, in the forest, the wolf attacked Belle. Fortunately Beast soon come to her rescue, but the beast itself even injured. Belle confine her intention to escape and bring the beast back to the palace. Belle dressed his wounds and thanked the Beast for saving her. Since then, their relationship began to improve. Next, this movie showed that we must help each other. For instance, Chip the son of Mrs. Potts, rescued Belle and Maurice from the basement so they can save Beast. Lastly, we must not stop learning. Belle’s insatiable appetite for knowledge inspires us to learn something new everyday. We may not be in school anymore, but we’ll always be curious, and we’ll always be reading a book. And when Belle teaches Beast to read, our hearts melt every time.

Every pros have its cons, so do this movie. This movie also contains bad lessons. First of all, it showed that a character was not treating his guests well. For example, when Maurice enter Beast’s palace to escape from the wolves, Beast locked Maurice in the basement. Next, there was a scene where Belle found Beast’s roses and took a look at it without his permission. Suddenly, the Beast came and snap away. Belle was surprised. This movie also contains some light porn elements which is not good as majority of the viewers are the kids. For example, there was a scene where Beast and Belle were kissing and the whole palace turned to be beautiful again. The waiters also changed back to human beings. Lastly, there was a scene that showed a character was forcing someone to like him where Gaston had brought an asylum officer to arrest Belle that refused to marry him. Gaston was so jealous as he can see that Belle loved Beast very much. 

by: NURALIA SASYA BINTI TAUFEK ARIFFIN