I'd seen a bunch of reviews for this movie when it was out in theaters so I went into watching it with pretty low expectations. It wasn't as bad as the reviews made it seem. It was, in my opinion, one of the few modern movies with a "diverse" cast that got that part right. The made a point at the start of the film to express the idea that EVERY ONE from every where was welcome there, and the main character greeted a group of new comers with greeting in a few different languages, and then it was never mentioned again. You saw men and women, young and old, some with disabilities, ect, but they didn't make a issue of it nor did any one play the victim due to it. Most people accept or welcome "diversity" so long as its not the character's only trait and its not rubs in people's faces.
SPOILERS AHEAD
One thing I did agree with most reviewers on after watching it was the king/sorcerer was the hero and the main character of the film was a villain, in the sense that the king suffered a great tragedy in his young focused on becoming a sorcerer to have the power to make a perfect place where people could be safe, him and his wife found an island and build a kingdom there and then opened the doors, inviting every one who wanted to live there to move there and live freely (no taxes) in safety with the only real rule being no one could try to learn magic with the exception of the apprentices the king took (all of whom didn't work out long as they started questioning him and demanding things). Every month the king would us HIS power to grant a wish he deemed beneficial to the kingdom and explain this to the main character, telling her many wishes were too vague and ripe for misinterpretation and thus dangerous to the order of the kingdom that HE built for them. Of course she (main character) gets pissed because her grandfather's wish won't be granted and argues with the king until he tells her he won't take her as his apprentice and let her leave (despite her getting to see where all of the wishes are being kept and learning the truth of every thing) and of course she runs home and tries to tell her family every thing but her grandfather refuses to hear her because it'd break his heart to know the truth. She runs out and starts singing of wanting more for her fellow villagers and how having every thing they want expect ONE wish isn't good enough until a star comes down from the sky and starts bringing every thing to life (plants and animals all start singing and dancing). This sends a wave through the kingdom of hope that every one feels, including the king who realizes some one is out there using magic and how that might disestablish all he's worked so hard to build, even having him look up to a half burned tapestry from his youth to remind him of how people with power can destroy a life. He's tempted to use a forbidden magic book but his wife talks him out of it and of course the main character starts doing exactly what he fear, getting people to start asking questions and making demands of the man who, for years, has given them every thing for free. This leads to the king realizing just how ungrateful the people are and how they are turning on him until he has no choice but to turn to the forbidden magic which of course is evil and corrupts him. Stuff happens and ends with the king absorbing the wishes for power and then the star so that no one can challenge him and destroy what he's built so the people turn on him and their combined will through song some how over powers him and frees their wishes and the start causing the staff he made to contain the star to suck him inside it instead. Every one cheers and the queen sends the staff to the dungeon since the people have every thing the king built now so he's no longer needed. The end.
So the old adage is correct, when you build paradise, others will steal it from you and kick you out. No matter how you spin it, the king was the hero and the main character the villain.
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