“Her suffering was unbearable, because she had trusted and been deceived.”

Yes that storyline resonated strongly with me, since I was duped by ubf KOPAHN theology for many years into thinking ubf was was Christian missionary training organization.

“But Maleficent learned to love again. I commend the movie’s definition of true love.”

Yes that is a very, very good storyline of the movie.

I think the Stephen/Maleficent relationship expresses the all-too-common human experience of loving someone who then turns against you. It seems to also have something to do with the two warring kingdoms.

But Maleficent learned to love again. I commend the movie’s definition of true love. It wasn’t Phillip’s kiss that saved her. That scene had me tearing up. Of course, some relationships didn’t make sense like the stephen/maleficent and crow/maleficent. For me, I didn’t understand the basis of those relationships. But it’s a good movie to watch.

One of my friends also saw the wings as a metaphor for Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy. Interesting…I also loved the camo with her little baby.

http://www.pluggedin.com/movies/intheaters/maleficent.aspx

It’s run by Focus on the Family, and I use it all the time. On multiple occasions it has shaped whether I ended up seeing a particular film or not. I don’t find it to be nearly as subjective as movie reviews often are, and it’s way better than using the MPAA rating system.

Maleficent movie review

Maleficent movie review 2

You know, I think Christians just don’t know how to be “in the world but not of it” anymore. Instead, they have to build their own kingdom where they tell the stories and are masters of truth.

Correct. That quote does not describe a higher love. The quote describes the traditional Disney storyline about romantic love. The movie seeks to tell a new story about a Godmother’s love.

One Christian blogger called this “new story” as Disney’s secret revisionist history, trying to rewrite the Crusader’s history…. I just say WTF? Disney is retelling their own decades old story, which is based on the Grimm story… all of which are fairy tales in the first place and don’t have any real connection to Crusader history…

I was trying to not reveal any spoilers :) The “higher love” is about a God-mother’s love.

“I heard that the wing cutting scene was akin to a rape scene”

Wow, I never would have remotely thought of that or imagined that from the scene. I can see how that perspective might be portrayed onto that scene, but I would say that would be unfair.

This touches on something I’ve learned the past year. I was unfairly portraying my bad experience with authority (at ubf) onto my workplace authority. Once I stopped doing that, my well-being drastically improved.

On a side note, I have not found a good review of this movie by a Christian blogger. Some are now calling Disney the most evil and dangerous company on earth, and quoting bible verses to prove that this movie is evil.

Also, I heard that the wing cutting scene was akin to a rape scene, so I probably will not see that movie.

Correct. And such an artificial dichotomy almost destroyed me. Perhaps this artificial “church/secular” dichotomy is the yeast Jesus warned about? Perhaps I need to rethink the “separation of church and state” idea…

On an unrelated issue, is the movie worth watching in the movie theater or can it be satisfyingly watched on TV or the PC?