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Enchanted moral is that real life is better

posted 13 years ago by Daannny
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I think this is also the moral of the movie is that the real world is better than any fairy tale.

If you think about it it's not Giselle who changes the point of view of Robert but Robert who changes Giselle. Robert believes in love just like Giselle but he is more rational, he explains that love is about knowing and respecting each other and accepting the flaws and bad moments not just the good.

And Giselle actually understands this, that's why she doesn't love her first-sight love anymore, because she understands that first-sight love is superficial and fake. It's actually the movie itself that tell us "real world is better"

Real love is better too, because the depth and passion of two people who goes through hard times, accept each other flaws and love each other is more beautiful than anything coming from fairytales.

A young couple loving each other and talking about their favorite music while they wash dishes together, one washing and the other wiping the dishes, is way more beautiful, romantic and true than a prince singing a serenade to a girl she doesn't even know.

I think the problem of people not accepting the real world and its beauty, is the bad education they got from their parents. Parents who stubbornly teach their kids that the world is a pink-painted place where nothing bad ever happens and want to wait till their kids are 6, 8, 10, 12... before letting them know the truth about the world, do a huge disservice to their kids.

They in fact will have a skewed view of what our world is. After living for years on a delusion they will suddenly discover the truth and will feel like they can't be happy because the world is not the perfect place they have been told. On the other hand if you tell a young kid that the world and life is made of good and bad moments and you must accept the bad moments and that bad moments don't prevent us from enjoying the good ones, then they will have a 360° degree view of the world from a young age and will be people who accept the up and downs of reality without developing cynicism or thinking they can't enjoy life anymore just because it's not like the insipid lie they have been fed.

Ironically children are actually more crude than their parents, they are capable of deep and dark thoughta and are happier when they interact with the reality of everyday life rather than when they're inprisoned in the fake plastic-like childhood delusion. Children would rather know about wars, talk with homeless people and cook food in their kitchen rather than watching only pink bunnies, interact only with other clean and wealthy children and pretend to cook with their kitchen toys.

A final note: fairy-tales are not cute and full of funny animals. That's the politically-correct version of fairy-tales stemming from the recent invention of babyish childhood. In truth fairy-tales are dark, violent and thought provoking.

Little Mermaid kills herself because her prince will never love her. Snow White witch is killed by the dwarfs who burn her feet. Beast dies because Belle never come back once she leaves the castle. People knew what children really neeeded: knowing the real life, understanding the good and bad of the real world and never accepting depression because of the bad since there's always good. That's why they told those fairy-tales to their children instead of the PC edulcorated versions of today. That's why people were better at dealing with life in the past and never let bad moments ruin their determination and will power, while today it take just one minor problem to make a person depressed, angry and cynical (which is why they're very little people smiling or doing their job with passion and kindness)

[–] mymovies125 12 years ago

This is so wise! This is one of the most enlightening things I've read in a while. Thanks for making my day lol

[–] sth128 12 years ago

The moral of Enchanted is that if you want to bone Amy Adams just get her mad.

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[–] Housefan2 9 years ago

Little Mermaid kills herself because her prince will never love her.

The Little Mermaid doesn't kill herself. Well, unless you count entering into a contract where death is your fate if your lover marries another woman as killing yourself. The Little Mermaid is given the opportunity to avoid death and return to being a mermaid IF she will murder her beloved prince with a special knife and his life blood will restore her tail. The Little Mermaids chooses not to take a life to sustain her own. She then dies per the contract with the sea witch.

Snow White witch is killed by the dwarfs who burn her feet.

The dwarves don't kill Snow White's step-mother. Snow White's step-mother is invited to the wedding of Snow White and the Prince. She goes to the wedding because her magic mirror tells her that the young Queen (Snow White) is fairer than the step-mother. She goes and is immediately presented with a pair of white hot shoes which she is forced to put on and dance to death. The step-mother is basically killed by Snow White and her husband.

Beast dies because Belle never come back once she leaves the castle.

The Beast dies wanting for Beauty's love rather than by a dagger to the back by a competitor for Beauty's hand. He still returns to his human form after Beauty vows her love for him.

Your post makes some good points but Enchanted is still a fairy tale and Robert is changed by Giselle. Robert completely changes his world and life after only knowing Giselle for three days. He leaves his girlfriend of five years for a woman he's known three days and moves her into his home (after telling the now ex-girlfriend that he wanted to avoid a woman spending the night to set a good example for Morgan).

Maybe dumping a long term girlfriend (and fiancé) and moving a stranger into your apartment three days after you meet them isn't as radical as, say, marrying a guy you've known for 24 hours but it is still radical.

Also, Giselle just happens to find a perfect situation which doesn't reflect real life in the slightest (especially life in Manhattan). Robert finds her and immediately takes her back to his home even though she's talking to a billboard wearing a huge ballgown and talking about how she fell down a well and landed in New York City. Robert is a single father but there's no mother in the picture. Morgan (her potential step-daughter) is infatuated by Giselle and immediately accepts her while she seems cold and indifferent to Nancy (a woman she's known for a majority of her life). Robert's income isn't known but he works in a firm with a nice looking office space, lives in a large apartment, and sends his daughter to a private school.

Very few people, especially wealthy individuals with young children, would take a homeless, possibly psychotic woman into their home. Maybe pay for her taxi cab to a homeless shelter but to actually take her home isn't the real world.

Robert and Giselle have had more conversations than Giselle and Edward but they're still strangers. Look at the time they had together. On Giselle's first day (night really) in NYC, Robert is more confused about Giselle. They don't have any meaningful conversations. On the second day, he spends the morning yelling at Giselle before they finally start to have some moments together. They discuss love. Each is baffled by the other's views on love. Their most meaningful conversations occur over pizza and just before bed when Giselle feels anger for the first time. On the third day, she spends her day with Edward (on a date) and Morgan (shopping). She doesn't spend time with Robert except for breakfast and the ball.

So what do they know about each other? Giselle knows that Robert's first wife left him and Morgan. We aren't given a reason or where she went or if she's even contacted Morgan since she left. Robert knows that Giselle is an idealist and has never felt anger a day in her life. Even babies feel anger.

We also don't see Robert and Giselle face actual real life problems. How will Giselle react when Morgan throws a tantrum? How will Robert react when he gets the credit card bill for Giselle and Morgan's high end shopping spree? Enchanted removes all possible sources of conflict.

I love Enchanted. However, let's not pretend that it isn't, at its very core, a fairy tale with many of the same tropes.

That's why they told those fairy-tales to their children instead of the PC edulcorated versions of today.

There are many good morals and lessons to be learned from today's PC edulcorated versions of today. For example, this movie deals with the ending of two engagements, Giselle and Edward's and Nancy and Robert's. Does this movie address heartache? Nope. We avoid that by having Robert and Giselle's sloppy seconds immediately hook up with each other and get married.

Lizzie

To love another person is to see the face of God! - Les Miserables

[–] Heroforsale1959 9 years ago

Sorry Housefan, I know you didn't mean to amuse when you wrote your detailed post, but your take on this movie (which I adore) made me laugh like a drain for ages.

The only thing I think I could add is that from the first time is that both of the "spurned" partners were perfect for the other one. Edward would bring to Nancy the "romance" she craved, while Nancy would bring a sense of fun and spontaneity to Edward.

"Sloppy seconds" Lol......

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[–] Clusium 9 years ago

You do raise some very good observations here in this original post, but, you overlook one tiny detail: While Giselle learned the "real world way" of falling in love, Nancy took on the fairytale world of falling in love.

Even before Giselle & Robert realize that they are in love with each other at the end of the ball, at the beginning of the ball, when Giselle comes in with Prince Edward, Nancy falls for Edward immediately (though without realizing it) with Edward, when she hears how he describes Giselle.

And then there was the earlier scene where Giselle sends heart-shaped bouquet to Nancy, delivered by doves. On a conscious level, the intent was for Robert, but, inwardly, we now know it was for Edward.

Giselle learned to love real world romance, while Nancy learned to love fairytale romance.

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