Film Review - Beauty And The Beast

The Beauty and the Beast is a well known fairy tale written by a famous French novelist known as Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. There are a number of different versions of the tale across the Europe and it was published in 1740. It is estimated that the tale was originated around 4,000 years ago and was succeeded a lot among people.

Undoubtedly that Beauty and the Beast was an unique Disney movie, for some decades it shows the reality of how women were treated in the past, freedom and telling us 'Don't judge a book by it's cover'... 

 Book equals knowledge in the past

The writer symbolises the book equals knowledge, that is why Belle has been described as 'odd' 'weird' and 'unusual' girl in her town, where boys were only educated. Fortunately she was well educated as her father is willing to teach her to write (There are exceptions!)
It was clearly shown in a particular scene while Belle was teaching a little girl how to read however she was then criticised of her action by the Headmaster of the town.  Be true to yourself we all know we're living in a patriarchal society where Men are seen as superior as they're more muscular and do more work then us?
In contrast surprisingly Belle wasn't portrayed as a weak or a girl is incapable of choosing her path, she had the choice to reject Gaston and choose the Beast. Furthermore at the end SHE was the one who saved the Beast, or should I say mutually. The writer has predicted that Belle and Beast must be together at the end as the first letter of the title indicates they must be together, Gaston will never be the one as in French ; Gaston means 'Guest' 'Stranger' so definitely there isn't a chance for him.

There must be more than this provincial life!

It is indeed, she was also like the ladies in her town where she was unable to explore the outside world, the only thing she ever come across with the outside world is her father going to The Market each year to bring her red roses. 
Consequently her father was imprisoned due to he tried to pick up red roses from the Beast's castle, the Beast wouldn't let him... as the Red roses has the meaning of 'True love', but the Beast never show love to the outsiders therefore he stopped Belle's father from picking it up.
It also shows the only way Belle could live a not so provincial life is that stay with the Beast - this has something to do with Gender as this may indicates the fact Women weren't able to leave a particular place without a MEN.

Don't judge a person by his/her appearance ;

Having lived a life in selfishness, a young prince is cursed by a mysterious enchantress to having the appearance of a monstrous beast, he then never mentioned his name or family anymore - a curse has been made and everything in the castle were objectified, winter in four seasons. Even the most selfishness person in the world will have a small dim of conscience presented within their heart...He may be a beast but he still has a human heart. But as you know most of the people have the ideology settled in their mind thinking that 'Beast' are cruelty, nasty or violent, it is true but not with him because he saved Belle! 
As long as you have the commitment of changing or slightly improves her personality then everything is possible. The appearance doesn't tell you all about a person's personality, you need to be willing to spend time to discover the positive side of him/her.

Love is essential in life but with mutual respect and trust

As much people know how did Gaston treat Belle's father and the Beast by trying to kill them in order to make Belle his wife but if it was a one sided relationship then no one would be happy or neither  future child,  Belle is more like a prize to him, we can tell from how his side kick always mentions things about 'War' 'Winning' and 'Women to make him calm.  Too self-centred! In contrast of The Beast he showed his interests and tries to open his deep heart and declare his love to Belle, and willing to set her free.  In addition to this also when they both saved each other twice.

Freedom plays an important part within this context as it indicates they have the choice to choose or live what they like. 

The phenomenon is known as 'Happiness'.

As much people have thought about fairy-tales are always simple minded and have the same plot as always, maybe try and stretch your mind a bit - outside the box perhaps? 

:)

Kelsey xoxo

'Movie' or 'film'?

BRITISH ENGLISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH?

All the time, all the time , there has always been some words that do confuses people, for example, words such as 'Fall' and 'Autumn'.
They both have the lexical field of  'weather' but described in different ways, to the people who are not familiar with American English like the British people, they might think 'Oh yeah, that's a pile of bullsh*t'.

Back in the days where English has originally formed from French/ Latin words, could have been much more and more histories behind the whole thing if you're talking about history. However, I am definitely not going into such deep talk about it. - it may bores you and me!
Recently I have been reading an article about English Language and noticed that the 'TH' sound in British english will be gone by 2066. whereas no more proper British language due to the muticulturalism said by the linguists in this research.
As a linguist in English Language, I do feel disgraced, devastated and concerned about the whole situation we are in now.

'Th' sound to vanish from English language by 2066 because of multiculturalism, say linguists

Multiculturalism is important;

According to researches from the tourists, visitors came from different places around the world expecting to see and hear Queen's English (or Standard English you may refer to) on the street while banging on the street. but this may be gone after 50 years due to multiculturalism, SE could be extincted forever!

'Given the status of London as the linguistically most influential city in the English-speaking world, we can expect to see significant changes between now and the middle of the century' - Dr Dominic Watt, a sociolinguistics expert from the University of York.

We're an English speaking country (proud to be!) - however, a lot of the things are influenced by the Americans such as TVs, Magazines, Films or even netflix.

The majority of the people, including 'you' who is reading this article may have been using some American slang words at some point, does not matter where are you from or which language do you speak.

90% of the people in the world are learning english, but only 25% could speak proper English because American English has evolved to become less formal and much more simpler, so foreigners does find it easier to learn American English.

A lot of non verbal communication skills are also replacing English Language, so Emojis may be part of your life by the time we reach to 2066.






Reporter - Kelsey Wong