Reflection on Cinderella (1950)

I had forgotten how much I love this movie so thank you Decoding Disney and Professor Andres for bringing back this childhood memory. I took some notes on my thoughts during the movie and cannot believe all of the stuff I missed when I was a child- it's certainly better watching this now and being able to really understand and appreciate the film.

Okay so when the movie started I couldn't stop picturing the mice and birds as real mice and birds. I would have freaked out if there were that many mice living in my room. I guess that's why i'm not qualified to be a princess. Princesses are kind to all living things. Cinderella even feels bad for Lucifer when he gets hurt- does she have a mean bone in her body?

I also laughed when I saw Bruno running in his sleep because my dog does the same thing- then I got sad because I miss my dog. The relationship between Lucifer and the mice reminded me of the cartoon Tom & Jerry and I'm almost wondering if the tv show was a rip off of Cinderella... Hmmm...

When Cinderella's shoe fell off when she was going up the stairs to bring the sisters their breakfast-that had to be foreshadowing. At first I was thinking because her step mother hates her she doesn't buy her shoes that fit her and she has to use hand-me-downs which would be the reason her shoe falls off at the ball, but then I realized the fairy godmother made her shoes so I don't quite understand why shoes made perfectly for her by magic would fall off twice: once at the ball and again at her wedding. Which happened way too quickly if you ask me but I'm not going to get into that. The whole "they don't even know each other how can they be in love" argument has been done to the max. I am just going to accept it at this point.

On to more important things, like why doesn't Cinderella's mouth move when she is singing to the prince. I wasn't sure if she was singing in her head or out loud until he started singing along too. And that comment that the girl mouse makes when they are making Cinderella's dress, "Leave the sewing to the women." We can't ignore that one. It was 1950 and this line makes this very apparent.

Okay the thing that really irks me is why do the glass slippers not turn back to normal at midnight like everything else? But I did find it funny that Cinderella is where the popular twitter expression came from: "If the shoe fits." I am so out of touch with my Disney roots that I had completely forgotten where the expression originated. If you aren't familiar, i'll explain. When you subtweet on twitter, sometimes people think what your tweeting is about them, so twitter accounts made a joke out of it that "if the shoe fits" they should also be offended by the tweet.



In conclusion, what I learned from this movie is that if your pretty it doesn't matter if your poor. I have tried to come up with a different lesson but I can't find one that sums up the movie better than that.