Actually - if the trend now is to subvert expectations and, thus, make Malificent a hero... why not do it with Gaston or Governor Ratcliffe?

Interesting video, but honestly, a bit too far off, some elements were a real stretch. Some points relied on western occultism when they could have been more or less equally made using simple fact situations.

There are some salient points being made beneath the BS, but instead of plowing through the BS, they go back into it every so often just to ensure flow is interrupted. Example: The constant returning to insisting that "tale as old as time" refers to a later segment of Genesis. I'm agreeable, maybe it could mean specifically Old Testament with some squinting, but that's later in the story, it's after "time", it's not as old as, so the comparison isn't internally consistent and for being an utterly unimportant point, is returned to far too many times. Perhaps the video maker gets a commission on Amazon links to bible sales? It was very out of place and distracted from the main ideas being presented, over and over again.

To link it properly, one must look at the wrath and care possible within the Almighty, the beauty and the beastly natures of humans a reflection, for Man was made in God's image, and the illustrious honor that is God's works. The beauty and the beastly natures within Belle is a valid point, but it doesn't harken back to listening to some random snake gossip, being a gullible idiot that lacks any form of agency, like Eve, is not much like Belle at all. As the video notes, she is a manipulator, a psychopath, and defined by her LACK of listening to any authority, beastly snake or Adam-shaped. Her sin is not lust or sloth, it is hubris: The tale as old as time is the Beginning. She fancies herself a god, to play with the lives of an entire village as she sees fit, always viewing herself as above them. Above those who fulfill their role and contribute to society. Above those who excel and provide leadership. Even above those of royal blood, of God-given authority (as miserable as "Beast" is, nowhere in the story do they even imply he is not a true prince). The tale as old as time, if it MUST be a bible verse, begins with "in the beginning", for that is what Belle views herself as, and is what spawns the beast to contrast with the beauty.

Only if you fucking hate landlords.

The witch that cursed a whole group of people to punish one spoiled asshole is the true villain.