A New Twist on an Old Story
The movie Penelope made it onto our Netflix cue. I’d never even heard of it, and didn’t put it there, Scott did, and tonight, we ended up watching it.
It took some warming up… but once it got going, it was intriguing. The reverse beauty and the beast tale involved a girl with a pig snout, a curse put on her family long before she was born. They thought the only way to break it was someone of her own “class” (i.e. upper class) accepting and loving her for who she is. Her mother thought it was a man who would one day break the curse, and planned to “sweeten” the pot with a dowry (read bribe).
But it wasn’t the role reversal that made this story interesting. What made it interesting was that she broke the curse herself, when she learned to love herself for who she is. There was no way she could find that acceptance and love without giving herself those things first.
It was a sweet movie, with a satisfying, well deserved happy ending. I wish more girls understood this same moral.
–Sue
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