Beauty and the beast

I went to see the new film of Disney's Beauty and the Beast this Saturday. I had seen all the flags in the city advertising the film, and was really excited to see it!

Many generations have watched this story on stage, in films and in the Disney animation. I read a review of Beauty and the Beast in The Big Issue. The writer said the talking chandelier was one of her favourite things about the movie when she was a kid. I love that too. She said she also went through a phase of liking 'handsome but awful' guys like Gaston, which is a bit like me, sometimes.

She says that now she is a grown up, she is taking her own little girls to go and see the film. Thats at least two generations of young women who want to become heroines like Belle, not trophey wives, who love books and are encouraged to read more. In the film Belle is from small village. She loves reading books, she's worldly, but the people in the village think she's odd. Which is weird or unusual.

Goston gives Belle some flowers. Gaston is obsessive in love. Obession in love can lead to violence. It effects women and men, and can become a mental illness. He is blinded by his obsession. He tied Belle's dad to a tree. Its not nice to do that.

Emma: Sometimes I think I still like Gaston.

Alice: I think that sounds like Bad Taste!

Emma: Sometimes I do like the beast as well though because he is romantic. He is the real prince...

'Appears' - I need that word!

That word means the way he looks is different to the way he really is!

In the beginning there is an old lady, Agatha was her name. She asked for help at the castle. But the beast refused to help her. He was young and arrogant. Which means he only cared about himself, not other people. So she turned him into the beast, and all the people into the castle in 'Mantiques', which is like Antiques, but they have people trapped inside them by the curse.

Belle's role is to be The One who will break the spell. She will help the beast, in the words of the candlestick Lumiere, "finally learn to love." He will learn in his heart how to give and be generous and put somebody else first. I really love that in there. And the music playing in the background too.

Rainer Maria Rilke said that "For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."

That means that we basically spend all our lives learning how to love.

Lumiere is the candle. That's French for light. He's called that because he's the candle, and also because he's the brightest!

Cogsworth, the clock, tells the time.

I've done some sketches and drawing about the film too. I'm going to write a poem about it as well. I want to send them to Emma Watson from Beauty and the beast.

I would go back to see this movie three or four more times. I just love the dishes. I love the song Be Our Guest. Celene Dion sings Tale as Old as Time. I'd give it extra stars for the ballroom dancing.