any adults don't realize that Cinderella was not the goody two-slippers
she was made out to be. She was a ruthless, conniving feminist who
committed vicious crimes up to and including misgendering fellow
persons of ovariness, and also allegedly murder.
According to the news media, the latest Cinderella movie will show little children the true face of Cinderella's dark heart, featuring gallons of blood, gore, and mass slaughter to appease the bloodlust of little children who once upon a time would have been happy if the princess just got kissed.
Japanese movies have been doing this for years. In one, a teenage girl gets a Gatling gun attached to her arm and goes on a rampage against the Yakuza. It's hard to tell what happens in the rest of the movie because the camera lens is continually being splattered with some sort of reddish liquid. She and her girlfriend pound railroad spikes into a Yakuza guy's head using a sledge hammer, making him angry, but he eventually talks. Toward the end, they end a sword fight by sawing a Yakuza guy in half with their chainsaw.
Another movie from pre-1997 Hong Kong had three girls living in a high-rise apartment. After a terrible crime happens, one goes on a rampage of bloody revenge using whatever weapons are at hand, including her car and a sizable quantity of flammable organic solvent. Let's just say she gets her man.
If I were a sociologist, I'd probably say that this all tells us something profound about the inner conflicts of persons of Fallopian tubeness. Revenge movies are usually a reaction to societywide crime. They express fear and desensitize people to unpleasant realities. So how do violent fairy tales fit in?
Children are under a great deal of stress these days from a variety of factors, not least the idea, which they are taught in school, that they will go extinct from a supposed climate apocalypse and the possibility that someone might declare them to be the “wrong” sex and try to remedy the situation surgically. Maybe our movie industry has just caught on to the idea that the traditional stories are bland compared the nightmare scenarios kids are exposed to in school.
may 26 2023, 8:55 am. updated may 27 2023, 4:20 am
