Ma·lef·i·cent
/məˈlefəs(ə)nt/
adjective – LITERARY
Causing harm or destruction, especially by supernatural means.
“a maleficent deity”
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I Viewed the “Maleficent” sequel last night. Talk about obvious attempt at predictive programming. Good is evil… evil is good. You can’t really tell the difference between the two. Demon like characters are really the good guys. Noble humans are really wicked. The daughter of whom everyone thought was evil marries the son of whom everyone thought was pure, and so good and evil are brought together to live happily ever after. Near the end Maleficent is seen flying through the air in a dress that fades and shimmers in black and white as she flies. Good and evil are not polar opposites. They really are the same.
Maleficent and her tribe are unquestionably depicted as fallen angels in the way they are costumed. You get the sense that the 1/3 that were swept from heaven as recorded in Scripture are now the good guys who were persecuted by the evil humans to near extermination. The viewer’s sympathies are engaged on the side of the fallen angels as led by black robed Maleficent as against the wicked human Queen Ingrith (always dressed in regal white) who desires to destroy the fallen fairy angel race.
The contest between Maleficent and Ingrith becomes one that sees Maleficent, who desires the fairy world and the human world to become one vs. Queen Ingrith who desires to destroy the fairy world by supernatural means. White Queen Ingrith injures Maleficent in the film but Maleficent, in a benevolent act of self-restraint does not kill Queen Ingrith.
The two main white male characters in the film are both portrayed as doofuses. King John of Alstead is portrayed as a bumbling idiot who is weak in comparison to his evil but competent Queen Ingrith. Prince Philip, the other white male human character in the film is well intention-ed but clueless about the evil intent of his mother, Queen Ingrith.
The one main black male character (Percival) does the bidding of Queen Ingrith but eventually in the film he realizes that he is being played and shows his wisdom by changing sides to support Maleficent.
Maleficent is the head of the Fallen Angels race and she, in an act of self restraint, stops the war between the humans and fallen angels and brings unity to the ying and yang existence of the human world and the fairy world so that all live happily ever after with the marriage of Maleficent’s daughter and the White Queen’s son.
Aurora, the human daughter of Maleficent is a kind of un-fallen Eve, while the White Queen Ingrith is a fallen Eve.
Miscegenation is prevalent in the film. Just as good and evil are slammed together so there is no distinction among either the humans or the fairy realm between different races. You see all races as part of the one united fairy world and you see all races as part of the one united human world. This is consistent with the film’s motif of denying distinctions and insisting that all is one.
Anyway, Maleficent is just another film served up by Hollywood with the purpose of pursuing the egalitarian agenda. It is yet another anti-fairy tale fairy tale. The Wicked witch is really the good witch. The White Queen is in point of fact wicked. The dragon like Phoenix that makes an appearance is on the side of good. The male rulers are either a bumbling fool or a naive love struck incompetent. The fallen angel race and the demon like depicted fairy realm are the good guys. The humans are the bad guys. Up is down. Down is up. Good is evil. Evil is good. Black and white are resolved so that both exist as one.
Just another piece of skubla film-making coming from Hollywood.
