Slit them Motherfucking Fairy Tales

Shrek is an adaptation and subversion of classic fairy tales. In the original fairy tale, the beast turned into a handsome prince with the true love of the beauty. But in the movie, it reverses: the beautiful princess turned into an ugly beast after expressing her love toward Shrek. In addition, the dragon has a feminine character instead of a furious and destructive masculine figure in the movie. In a fairy tale, the princess are always so beautiful and will always find her Mr. Right, who’s bound to be handsome and charming. But in this way, they』re only fairy tales, and the character of the protagonists becomes fuzzy, so far from the reality. Sometimes we may wonder: why the princess fell in love with the prince so unexpectedly? On the contrary, this movie contains more human stuff. Magic or supernatural here aren』t that important, what matters is Shrek and Fiona themselves. Shrek wasn』t meant to save the princess; the princess wasn』t meant to fall in love with him either. But their own action brought them together. The story praise the power of human beings, the initiative to conquer any difficulty. And the ending shows that nobody’s perfect, Shrek and Fiona, the two ugly ogres, lived happily. They are like all of us, not so unrealistic. This is not just make-believe, this makes us believe in the intrinsic power of ourselves. I think most adults would appreciate this movie because they can see themselves-the characters, the plot, the ending are real to the touch-and that may account for the enormous success of the Shrek series.