Hi Disneyfan,
I agree, this was a childish story. Everything in black and white. Stefan should not have be made all bad, all evil. People are more complex than that. I understand the point about human greed for power, land, and natural resources. That's a good motivation for them sacking the fairy land.
And Maleficent is made to be too good. It would have been more interesting to have Stefan not be so evil. It would have been better to have him be duped into leading the king's men to Maleficent's land. He could have gradually changed and been corrupted by power. It was too much of a change in him without showing how and why he changed. Not good story telling. It could have been about human greed with out being so black and white and simplistic.
People often become corrupted when they get in positions of power without intending to. They often start out very well intentioned, but being in that position, wanting to stay there, owing political favors to people who helped you get there, etc.. cause people to change, and they don't even see it.
That is a truer story, a more mature story, and a more interesting story.
If they wanted to say that Maleficent isn't all bad, and there are reasons for what she did, then the same must be said of those who hurt and betrayed her.
No one has to be all bad, or all evil. People just aren't that way. It would have been so interesting and compelling to see her change and become twisted by her anger and become vindictive, then we would have loved her, and been torn apart to see her destroy herself, then she could have been redeemed in some way in the end. That would have been a good story.
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