The thing about fairy tales is that we never know which one we’re in. Disobeying her husband’s request destroys everything in “Cupid and Psyche” variants, but it saves the woman’s life in “Bluebeard”. In Andersen’s “The Wild Swans”, the archbishop’s investigation of Eliza leads him to wrongly condemn her for magic–yet if someone had done the same to Eliza’s stepmother, they could have stopped her before the princes were turned into swans. These characters are doing what they deem best on limited information, and sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong, but the important thing is that they bravely face the consequences.
This applies to horror movies as well.




