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Therapist Reacts to BELLE

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How does online culture affect how you treat others? How do you undo limiting self-belief?

Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright react to the anime Beauty and the Beast retelling, Belle. Jonathan talks about Suzu’s limiting self-belief and feelings of abandonment. Alan has lots of thoughts about how internet culture is portrayed in Belle. And he gives high praise to whoever worked on the train station scene!

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Written by: Megan Seawright, Jonathan Decker, and Alan Seawright
Produced by: Jonathan Decker, Megan Seawright, Alan Seawright, and Corinne Demyanovich
Edited by: Emily Colton
Director of Photography: Bradley Olsen
English Transcription by: Anna Preis

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@CinemaTherapyShow Creator 1 year ago Pinned

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@helenanilsson5666 1 year ago

For anyone that needs to hear this: NEVER handle an abuser the way Belle did in this movie. She did almost everything wrong and endangered both herself and those kids. Do not confront an abuser until after you have arranged an escape plan for the abuser's victims. Always always always put the victim's safety before your hero complex, wait until they can get away from the situation before confronting the abuser. In this case, that would mean they'd need a foster family ready first, and possibly some kind of protection program from the police so that the dad can't interact with them, or at the very least ensure that he'll never be alone with them again.

@MutantAlchemist450 1 year ago

I think a big part of Suzu's arc in the film is finally coming to understand her mother's sacrifice. She sees a couple of strangers who are hurting and in danger and does something selfless in an attempt to reach them. Just like her mother. You can see that realization and understanding come over her and it is beautiful.

@Rozemyne2314 1 year ago

i liked this movie, but i always felt the ending was like 10~15 mins too early. She literally saves the boy from the abusive father, goes back to her friends and then it just ends and the aftermath isnt addressed

@rubenduenas5881 1 year ago

I like how it portrays internet masking in two different lights. Suzu is able to sing and live a completely different life outside of the trauma of losing her mother. Kei, however, uses the internet to express his anger in an almost unhealthy manner (though it's really not his fault for having said anger towards his abusive father).

@Shawnasart76597 1 year ago

I remember when this first came out, people were upset because they thought it would be a romance like Beauty and the Beast. But I adored this movie, I saw it in theatre twice.

It's about grief and seeing yourself reflected in someone else. Suzu was drawn to him because he was in pain but dealing with it in the opposite way she did. She went silent, was unable to sing, whereas the "beast" lashed out from his pain. She was in awe of him, and his pain called to hers, and all she wanted was to be there for him the way she wanted someone to be there for her. Heartbreaking but beautiful.

@jubilee3961 1 year ago

I adored this movie up until Suzu's confrontation with the father. I understand the significance of that scene but my suspension of disbelief was pretty quickly shattered by the fact the main adults in Suzu's life willingly drove her to the train station to travel several hours, ALONE, to confront a grown abusive man. My brain just has a difficult time fathoming it, and I feel like it would've been better if the adults hadn't been directly involved in her plan.

@jenniferzhu1508 1 year ago

"if I've got it in me for them, then maybe I've got it in me for me." As a people pleaser and an extreme self critique/perfectionist, that hit deep :')

@celine_poike 1 year ago

The part where she sings her song as herself, chokes up and then everyone starts singing to her.... It makes me cry. Every time. Without fail. I have goosebumps just thinking about it

@spiderknight217 1 year ago

I just noticed this, and I bet this was on purpose by the animators. Looking at Suzu in group shots in the real world, her color is desaturated, especially in her hair. Suzu in flashbacks, particularly the one at the river, her hair has alot of color to it before her mom passed away. I subconsciously noticed this the first time around, and it's made clear with Belle's design of how vibrant the model is using colors that she used to wear as a child. Neat little detail that I can never unsee lol.

@JasperJunior94 1 year ago

I love how every 10 years or so, Mamoru Hosoda is contractually obliged to make a film on the state of the Internet. 🙃

@VidralliaArchives 1 year ago

Online bullies are their own brand. A lot of them like to fall back on the argument that they should be able to say whatever they want about anyone and if that hurts you it's apparently your fault, not theirs. There's certainly a blurred line between "am I too sensitive?" and "is this person gas-lighting me because they refuse to be accountable?"

@EthalaRide 1 year ago

2:34 I love the detail that people might miss that Suzu's mom gave the little girl HER OWN LIFE JACKET before trying to swim back. I think it adds to the meaning and symbolism more about what Suzu's mom did, and what Suzu later does. She is shedding her own protective shield to help protect someone else with it. Suzu sheds her protective layer of Belle to be able to reach out and get to the abused boys, who are on an island of there own, and she puts herself in bodily harm's way to shield the boys themselves and face down the real beast.
Suzu's mom actively made a choice to ensure that girl's safety, even if it meant greatly disadvantaging herself, and eventually dying for it. It's rough, and I get why she did it, but daaaang is that a hard call to make when you're leaving your own daughter to grow up without you. I'd probably feel the same way as Suzu, honestly.

@troyom 1 year ago

I always felt this movie was her coming to accept the choice her mother made. Giving up her life to save another. She gave up her life as Belle to be able to reach out to the person she was trying to save.

@rebecky5ever 1 year ago (edited)

Belle is such an interesting movie about trauma in the age of the internet, without the online aspect it would never have the same emotional impact(kinda reminds me of what Chapell Roan is going through)

@ReelPodcasts 1 year ago

Hosoda said he made this movie for his daughter and people who are young and the future they will live in. I think he accomplished this.

@MementoMori-kn4dh 1 year ago

This movie will never fail to make me cry because it always reminds me of a Vtuber named Ironmouse who is ill & says, streaming through her character persona helped her a lot through the worst of it & allowed her to make friends after years of isolation

@randomgirlbucko 1 year ago

I'm surprised y'all didn't talk about the fact that she realized why her mom saved a stranger. Suzu herself decided to save a couple of strangers and that's when it hit her.