If I’m not mistaken, I watched this animation movie in 1991. I was carried away by the story. I was so impressed with the film even though it was only an animation movie. The camera work, the plot and all the characters were so amazing. The scenery pictures were like real pictures. They looked alive.
What I want to discuss today is about the moral value behind the film. Who’s the real beast in this movie? Is the beast the real monster? Are monsters another kind of God’s creation that forms the variety of beings in the universe? However in Beauty and The Beast , Beast ( the doomed prince) and Gastone ( the villagers’ favorite guy) are non other than human being. Thus, what contributes to the distinction between human beings and monster? There is the difference between the villagers’ perception of a monster and that of Belle (the pretty and innocent girl). The villagers take the Beast’s unpleasant look as the ticket to his monstrosity while Belle sees Gastone’s inhumanity that makes him a monster.
In real life, people are always confused by the appearances. The question of appearance, hence , relates to the idea of beauty. Perhaps, the title of the story itself – The Beauty and The Beast – and not “ Belle and the Beast” – is made to highlight the distinction between one appearance to another.
How many girls out there are as wise as Belle? How they judge people, how they see beauty, how they move beyond appearance and how they choose love? What has become a monster to some pe
ople could be a beauty to some other. Indeed, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and so as monstrosity.
Things are not always what they seem. In fact, things are almost always different from how they appear to the eyes and how they sound to the ears.
