Why Do Bad Things We See In Disney Movies?

Growing up, we are introduced and raised around cute fairytale Disney movies such as “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Little Mermaid”, and many more. As children, we believe that everything we see in movies good or even sometimes bad, will happen to us, at least once, during our lifetime. We don’t realize but as we get older, we have become completely oblivious as to how these movies have corrupted our views on how to live our lives, romantically and socially. For example, as little girls most of us believe that we will grow up to be princesses and live in our own kingdom. As we get older we come to realization that that’s impossible but we still hold on to the idea and hope for our perfect endings. As writer David Derbyshire states in

his essay The Notting Hill Effect: How Romantic Comedies Can Harm Your Love Life, “The problem is that while most of us know that the idea of a perfect relationship is unrealistic, some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realize” (228). The authors of this short essay warns us of the potential negative outcomes of just simply watching a movie. For decades, women around the world have been impacted by the idea that romantic movies portray. Those being the ideas of finding the perfect man, riding off into to the sunset and living a happily ever after. But that is totally delusional. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a perfect anything, not man, not relationship. Predestined love is not real.