The Princess and The Frog

The Princess and The Frog is the movie that they keep playing on the disney channel on TV, and it is one movie that I never liked.

I used to view this movie as scary. Dr. Facilier, the villain, practices voodoo, something that even now at my adulthood makes me feel scared. Dr. Facilier walks among the shadows and talks to beings (the demon kind of ones) at the other side and is called "The Shadow Man". His tall and thin body structure is scary and the way he dresses with black magician outfits and skulls freaks me out. The way he is surrounded by dark magic like voodoo dolls and scary totems just makes me want to run away.

I used to hate this movie because I was afraid of it and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. I

f I viewed Cinderella under the cruelty of her stepmother, I could have adopted her and given her a home and attempted to fight the evil cruelty of the stepmother. If I viewed Ariel signing a contract with Ursula, I could have tried to stop Ariel from signing.

In every case there is something I could have done to stop the villain and in fact in every case the hero stopped the villain. Aladdin stopped Jafar by convincing him to wish being the most powerful Genie. Moana stopped Te Kah when she returned the heart. But in the Princess and the Frog there was no good way (and by good I mean without killing) to stop Dr. Facilier. In fact the ones that kill Dr. Facilier are actually his friend from the other side (although they end him because Tiana destroyed the totem, but she had no idea that that would actually kill Dr. Facilier).

Dr. Facilier had the power of the other side which I view as a power from demons. This is the power that I think satanists worship. This power is the power I am deeply afraid of and it is the reason why I was scared of The Princess and the Frog. It is the reason why I hated the movie.

While viewing this movie for a thousandth time for my Writing class, I realized that this is a reason to hate the villain of the movie but not the movie itself. There was nothing wrong with the movie. The only wrong thing was that I was afraid from the villain, and that was not a logical reason for hating it so my mind automatically searched for arguments to convince me that this movie is terrible and to my surprise I found none.

I viewed myself reflected on this hardworking person just like me! I viewed this movie as attempting to break the classic fairytale movie, and I loved that! I viewed this movie under other eyes. I gave this movie a second chance and I started to appreciate what it truly was. I enjoyed the movie for the first time.