"Everyone has a demon in their hearts, even if they are trampled to death and dried and ground into ashes, they cannot disappear, but they always have the right to a little happiness." Even if it's just a little happiness for the rest of your life. "-------- 'The Devil Is Born'
I saw a video on Douyin that touched a nerve, showing a witch dressed in black with a long horn on her head, standing outside the window making a grimace at a baby, and by the way, she did not forget to say: "You are so ugly, I feel sorry for you." The baby in the cradle, looking at the witch in black, did not fear but smiled innocently.
Infected by such a picture, after a deliberate search, I learned that this is adapted from the 1959 Disney veteran animation "Sleeping Beauty", "Sleeping Curse", which is a pure fairy tale and released in North America in 2014.
The content is from the folk songs of the Middle Ages, to the legends of the Renaissance, to the various arrangements and collections of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and finally to the twentieth century, telling the story of a simple and kind young fairy Maleficent and the human boy Stefan falling in love, but when he grew up, Stefan cut off the wings of his lover in order to get the throne.
Although it is a fairy tale, when put into reality, it is the tragedy of being loved, hurt, and revenge.
Some people say that this is a "story of a pure love girl meeting a negative scumbag", which is also correct to understand, after all, all tragedies begin with beauty.
At the beginning of the story, Maleficent is a little fairy living in the forest kingdom, simple, beautiful, kind, and one day saves a human boy who breaks into the forest.
The two became very good friends, and just as the boy reached out to thank the fairy, the ring on his hand burned her, and the boy threw away the ring without thinking.
In the Three Character Classic, it is said: At the beginning of man, nature is inherently good.
Everyone is born with kindness, without the influence of the environment and the people around them, and shows people in the purest and kindest way.
Just because they are kind enough, people get along with people, the relationship will be closer, and there will be no defense against the people close to them.
When Maleficent was 16 years old, the boy gave her a special gift, a deep kiss, and love was the main theme between them.
In the kingdom where the boy lived, the old king wanted to invade the forest kingdom and lead his troops to fight, and at this time Maleficent was already a leader who was powerful enough to protect his subjects, and the king naturally suffered defeat.
Returning to the old king in the castle, he announced to all his courtiers that whoever killed Maleficent in the forest would inherit the throne.
In The Weakness of Human Nature, it is said that human nature is greedy, and even the dying king wants to occupy the territory of others, let alone young boys.
The boy used his status as a lover of Maleficent to approach her, to take advantage of her trust in him, and while she was asleep, he secretly cut off her beautiful and powerful wings and offered them to the king in his hospital bed. There was no suspense, and he quickly and smoothly became the new king.
In this world, people die for money and birds die for food, and it is no longer strange. Man's desires arise in need and are satisfied in need.
If a person who has lost good thoughts will dwell in a devil in his heart and do all things that harm others and benefit himself, but he does not know it.
There are no good thoughts in the heart, and all tragedies are born because of this, because the human heart is either good or evil.
The severed winged Maleficent, from a simple, kind man, to a cold, brutal, mindful, with only the thought of revenge.
The boy who succeeded to the throne married the daughter of the old king and gave birth to a lovely daughter, named her Arlo, and on Princess Ailuo's birthday, Malefissen gave a vicious curse: "When the princess was sixteen years old, she was spun to the point of bleeding, so that she could not wake up, and only the kiss of true love could be lifted." ”
The angry king ordered the destruction of all spinning cones and the training of elite soldiers to attack the forest kingdom, in addition to sending the princess elsewhere to be sent back when she reached the age of 16.
At this time, Maleficent and the king were caught in a state of revenge of eye for eye, for tooth. This situation of the Avengers is psychologically called the Hercules effect.
The Hercules effect refers to one-on-one interpersonal interaction, which is a social psychological effect of retribution between people or groups, resulting in deeper and deeper hatred. It is commonly known as "treating others with their own way", "you can't get along with me, and I will make you unhappy".
Caught in the Hercules effect, it will become invisible, unable to feel warmth, with only one purpose, not to make the other party feel better, and full of hatred.
After his daughter was cursed, the king lived a life worse than death, living in pain, fear, and cruelty every day, and he did not reflect, because his own fault came first, which caused this tragedy to occur, and for a time, he was blinded by hatred.
This situation also appeared in the popular TV series "The Biography of Chu Qiao", in which Yan Xun Shizi, because of a misunderstanding, was killed by the emperor all the people in the family, although they made great contributions to the country, they were still connected to the nine ethnic groups.
Yan Xun, who tried everything to return to Northern Yan, was no longer the gentle teenager he had been, with less temperature on his body, his eyes full of hatred, and a leader bent on avenging his family. So indiscriminately, the goal is very clear, let the people in the Chang'an Imperial City pay the blood debt.
The final ending, of course, is to achieve the goal, but he is more painful.
Hatred is like a bag, it starts very small, if you ignore it, the contradiction is resolved, it will naturally disappear; if you can't live with it, hate it, it will double its revenge.
This typical psychological revelation of the Hercules effect is that once a person is stimulated by malignant stimulation, his heart will produce bad emotions and fall into endless troubles. But neither the avenger nor the retribued are true winners.
A psychologist at Harvard in the United States has shown that complaining is the worst choice of social utility, and it is easy for people to fall into the quagmire of unjust retribution.
Mark Twain said: One foot squashed the violet, it left the fragrance on that heel, and that is tolerance.
American management psychologist D. Schwartz has proposed that all bad things, only if we think it is bad, can really become unfortunate events. This is Schwartz's thesis.
In the face of setbacks, whether to abandon oneself and make it an irreversible fact, or to make it a driving force for renewed motivation, depends on people's subjective efforts.
When Maleficent and the king fell into a vortex of hatred at the same time, Maleficent was with the little princess, from gradual indifference to finally being able to hold the princess and let her touch the horns on her head, from the beginning, trying to curse her, but finally only wanting the princess to grow up happily.
With the innocent and lovely princess, she chooses to slowly let go of hatred and accept beauty and reality.
When the princess found her hiding from her and wanted her to come out, Maleficent said, "You'll be afraid when I come out." The princess said "I am not afraid".
A person who was once hard-hearted, at this moment, thinks that coming out will scare the girl in front of her who she shouts as a "little monster", she has thought about others and begun to return to kindness.
When the princess was on her 16th birthday, she still did not escape the curse, and when she was pierced by the spinning cone, she could not wake up, including the prince could not wake up the curse. Maleficent stood by her bedside and said tearfully, "Dear Arlo, you have awakened the last bit of warmth in my heart, and I have lost you forever." ”
If you can see the good from the bad, there will be no holes.
Hatred makes people miserable, and in hatred, choose to forget the pain, choose to forget hatred in order to truly dominate their lives.
Happiness and unhappiness are the same, why not choose to live happily?
If happiness and unhappiness are correctly understood, let it become a driving force for renewed motivation, depending entirely on people's subjective consciousness and efforts.
The American historian Cavett Robert proposed a great theorem: no one fails because they fall or are depressed, only if they keep falling or frustrated will fail, there is a deep implication here, that is: if you don't hit yourself, no one can hit you! To sum it up in one sentence: fully respect the past, but also open to the future.
In the story, after the king cut off Maleficent's wings, he always heard her miserable and desperate cries in his sleep, and was awakened by nightmares again and again.
He was afraid that Maleficent would steal the cut wings, so he watched day and night until he was mentally weak and still stared intently.
He was also afraid that she would come back to take revenge, so he wanted to destroy her forest kingdom first, so he let the soldiers keep fit.
He was afraid that his daughter would really leave him, and even though she appeared in front of him, he locked her in the room.
Frightened, panicked, day after day he entered the vortex of pain.
On the road of life, there will be setbacks and failures, and you need to reinvigorate and seek change in chaos. In the process of change, we will definitely encounter great resistance. It is possible to succeed or not to succeed, but if it does not change, it will never succeed.
There is a sentence in "Sun Tzu's Art of War": "Iroko gang"
In the case of Ezhu Kegang, there is a very famous allusion.
One day, Confucius led his disciples thousands of miles to ask Lao Tzu for advice. Lao Tzu grinned and said, "How do you see my teeth?" Confucius replied respectfully, "Sir has no teeth at all." ” Lao Tzu stuck out his tongue: "How do you see my tongue?" "Sir's tongue stretches and stretches freely, red and moist." Lao Tzu listened and stopped speaking. Confucius thanked him and led the disciples away. Confucius explained to his disciples, "Lao Tzu told us that although the teeth are hard, they fall out because they are hard to touch, and the tongue is soft and soft, so it is intact. This is exactly how we are human beings!"
Maleficent originally approached the princess with full of hatred, but in the process of getting along, the simplicity and cuteness of the princess infected her, making her forget what the original intention of approaching her was.
So as a witch, she gradually treated people and things with a soft heart, and these were the princess's kindness that melted her hardness, and she began to see the world with a warm heart. When fighting the enemy, she had the opportunity to put him to death, but she chose to let go.
Maleficent learned tolerance in the early days, sometimes, tolerance is not a concession, but a force, only by forgetting hatred and learning to be tolerant, can we get along with people, will win the friendship and trust of others, and thus win the support and help of others.
epilogue:
This ancient fairy tale reflects the desires of human nature, greed, good and evil, and is also a process of gradual growth and transformation of a woman.
Maleficent saw darkness and evil and still chose to stick to goodness and goodness.
Her revenge, much more euphemistic than that of the witches of Macbeth, Snow White, and The Daughter of the Sea, neither violently destroys the human kingdom nor kills the king directly, but chooses a more "feminine" approach: it can be reduced to jealousy and gambling, which is more in line with the soft characteristics of women.
The film tells the ugliness of the world very thoroughly, and the story is close to the extreme.