Vallespin, James Vincent M.

Art Appreciation
E – 103 July 23, 2019
Beauty and The Beast Reflection Paper

The Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast” was the most astonishing story that I ever watch
and there are a lot of lessons that you can learned and can actually apply it to yourself. The actors
and actresses in the movie were impeccable and perfectly executed all of their assigned roles. The
main characters were Belle and the Beast, the character of belle was a lovely heroine and beautiful
girl who loves reading books and who can see the outward appearance of the beast. She is the savior
and her love can only break the curse in restoring the beast to prince he once was. The character of
the beast was a selfish man, full of pride and arrogance and lack of compassion for those less
fortunate people.

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens are the stars and the main character of the movie and both of
them was an amazing artist they did a great job in portraying the character of belle and the beast. For
me, all the scene was awesome and how they deliver their dialogue was concise and perfectly
executed. To the set and art directors the location and place that they film was mesmerizing and
beautiful. The setting was really realistic and you can actually feel that you are inside the film. The
music and musical director used music in every scene that has musical dialogue was perfectly
amazing and the musical directors has good taste on matching the music on every scene in the
movie. In terms of the color they were colorful and it is not that bright and dark but it was balance
which is great to look in our eyes and a high quality of video. When it comes to the make-up, hair and
costume design of the characters were really suit to the role that they are assign and it is connected
to the time period of the story and their makeup are just light which is great. In costume design, the
designer did really well because they are all magnificent to look at and you can see in the film that
they used their creativity and innovativeness to design all the costumes to make it look beautiful and
completely appropriate in the time period. For the sound, camera, and special effects technicians the
cinematography of the movie was extraordinary, start from the level of sounds in terms of the
dialogue, the angles of every shot in scene was remarkable and the special effects that they used is
genuinely match and suit to each scenario.

The movie wants to show us and learn that true love sees the beauty within our soul not by our
physical appearance or the external beauty of the person. It is always based on what kind of heart
and attitude the person have, and not the beauty that can be seen in our naked eyes that can actually
fade away when we are already old. First lesson, true love is sacrifice, as I watch the movie love
isn’t only about the relationship between two people but it can also be in your family and the people
that surrounds you. Second lesson, being poor doesn’t mean being different, just like belle she
reads a lot of books and striving hard in living her dreams but the people on her village is just
laughing at her and that makes me realize that you should not mind others just follow and believe in
your dreams no matter what those maybe. Third lesson, don’t let criticism minimize your self-
worth, I believed you embrace yourself no matter what flaws you have because we are all unique in
our own ways. To our life, not everyone will like us and someone will be going to discriminate us but it
is always depending on you if you’re going to let them drag you down or just ignore them. Fourth
lesson, letting go will never be easy, this situation can be happened to our relationship, friendship
and in our family and it is a tough one and letting go of people you loved the most is the difficult time
to say goodbye. Fifth lesson, all of us people have the “beast” inside us, as far as I know that we
all have the attitude and the behavior that we don’t expect to show up but it is a matter of deciding or
choosing what action you will take. Sometimes think if you want to be the beauty or the beast? Final
lesson, the biggest is enemy is yourself, I could say that this is the hardest enemy in your entire
life, arguing with yourself will never be easy. Sometimes we should stop and take time and look inside
ourselves and discover if were happy on what we are doing.

In conclusion, for me I’ve realized to value and appreciate the internal characteristics of a
person such as kindness and understandable other than superficial characteristics, like good looks.
The moral lesson of this movie is that if you love a person like them despite of their outward
characteristics and always remember that with great power comes with great responsibility.