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ChocolatEyes613 wrote: Applegirl wrote:

I did not see the movie (but read spoilers), but I still don't understand how Stefan's "true love's kiss" was a sexual undertone. As for Maleficent's wings being cut off, I'm not sure if I'm understanding this correctly, lol. Maleficent's loss of wings makes her lose her innocence and become evil. Was that scene trying to draw a similarity between that and loss of virginity, which in some kinds of lore is associated with loss of purity/innocence? Explaining why Sefan's "true love's kiss" is a sexual innuendo, would be too much of a spoiler. Without giving too much away, Maleficent comes to believe there is no such thing as true love or a true love's kiss. However, you are correct about Maleficent's wings. Many film critics actually took it one step farther, as a reference to a date rape.

Maleficent did face turmoil and change drastically as a person as a result of her wings being stolen. There was her physical pain (being drugged unconscious, and then waking up without her wings) and there was the emotional pain (violation of trust and love, betrayal, shame). However, the manner of how she was betrayed is not date rape.