The Cinderella story is wired for weirdness, and you can see it in this movie.
It is through beauty, poetry and visionary power that the world will be renewed.
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment.
Magic happens on the threshold of the forbidden.
The unsparing savagery of stories like “The Robber Bridegroom” is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture as much as to the culture of childhood... They capture anxieties and fantasies that have deep roots in childhood experience.