Reel Talk: Sleeping Beauty

Each month we will be watching (and encouraging our listening audience to watch) a film that we think captures an important conversation in our culture. In this series, we explore one small corner of the world of cinema and ask, “why are some movies good and other movies… false?” We also hope to model how to get more out of your movies and see more clearly the messages Hollywood is sending us all the time! All of our films are selected to be totally family friendly! We continue our series by looking at the classic Disney animated fairy tale epic Sleeping Beauty (1959). This beautifully animated story retells an old fairy tale and leans into deep storytelling forms: a princess in danger,  a kingdom in peril, a heroic prince coming to the rescue, an evil witch bringing death, good fairies offering hope. Why do we tell these kinds of fairy stories to our kids and why are they still powerful for adults to watch? Is this story still true? Is it the leftovers of a bygone era or is it drawing from a deeper, timeless story? Watch it as a family and then join the adventure next month in Reel Talk!