My Favorite Movie Is Beauty & The Beast

Beauty & The Beast is still to this day one of my all time favorite movies. Its the story of not just falling in love, but falling in love for the person inside. Valuing kindness, over superficial qualities as well as learning from one another on how to become better individuals. I love the fact that Beauty and the Beast is one of the few times that the princess saves the prince. The story offered so many different outlooks on how to love, and how to look past the outward appearance and look more deeply into who the person is. However, there are the theories about “Stockholm Syndrome” being presented in this specific movie, along with the theories that belle never truly loved the beast. People can choose to view it however they want, I choose to believe in the fairy tale love and the happiness they brought to each other.

This movie, I believe has so much to offer in lessons you learn when it comes to loving someone through the flaws. To not only expect nothing but happiness all of the time, to look beyond your fears of the unknown, to gain the understanding that “Happily Ever After” doesn’t look that way right away. Maybe for some it does, and the hardships come later, or maybe both comes at full speed ahead. When I watched this movie as a little girl, I wanted to be like Belle and be kind to everyone. To not judge people based on how they look, etc. Belle was also very strong, even though she was scared when the beast showed himself, or threw his temper tantrums she would not back down. She looked directly into his eyes and stood her ground. When the beast needed her, she came back to him because she loved him, same thing with the beast when belle left because the beast had scared her, he followed her and protected her from the wolves. In love I believe both people have to give 50-50 of themselves to other person. To love them not just through the good times, because lets face it its easier to love when there is nothing hard to face. You need to love them through all of the bad too, be there for the other person when they are weaker, & if its the right person they will do the same for you no questions asked. I feel lucky to have found my husband when I did, because I couldn’t imagine trying to date now. Don’t get me wrong, my husband and I had some hard times. He was dealing with PTSD, and being someone who grew up in a military family I understood that in the hard times he would face on some days, I didn’t need to be cruel or angry with him. I needed to love him through the hard times, and remind him he was still so special to our family. We reminded him that no matter how far he felt like he would go within his own mind, how sad he would feel, we would be there waiting for him with open arms.

To me this movie had a unique approach in showing the value of love as well as the way in which real love starts. It Begins by getting to know the person you are with, on a deeper level, by Becoming the others friend. Beginning to notice whether or not that person makes you want to be the best version of yourself, or if they make you feel bad and sad all the time. Like Belle and the Beast, Belle started to see the beast for the beauty in him and the Beast noticed the beautiful soul that Belle had. In the movie there’s a part where belle needs to go find her father who she sees in the mirror sick, and dying. The beast could see her sadness, and turns away realizing how much he loves her, The beast then turns to belle and tells her to go. With the fear of not knowing if she would ever come back to him, He let her go with the acknowledgement that he would be the beast forever. You hear the quote all the time “If you love that person enough to let them go, and they come back to you then they love you just as much, and if they don’t come back then they never truly loved you to begin with.” as hard as it is, at the time I’ve found it to be true. My husband and I went through something similar to letting each other go, and we came running back to the other person, we didn’t ever want to feel the emptiness we had when we weren’t with each other again. I think that was another reason I loved this movie as much as I did, In every other movie the prince would be the one to rescue the princess. In this movie though, he needed her as much as she needed him. He wasn’t the standard super sweet prince either, he had flaws, and learned to become someone better than he was before. Belle became stronger, while realizing she found her adventure, she wanted more and she got that with the beast.

Love Doesn’t need to be perfect, It just needs to be true.

“Every Beauty needs her Beast to Protect her from everything but him.” -N.R. Hart