Carrie Link

DYSENCHANTED

I just watched the best 8 minutes of entertainment I've seen in a long time. It was a "short" called "Dysenchanted", produced by The Spiritual Cinema Circle. It involved Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, Dorothy, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood, in group therapy with Jim Belushi (it's funny already, isn't it?). As jokes of OCD, high maintenance men, narcolepsy and drug dependency were bantered around, the film introduced a woman that "didn't belong there". She wasn't like "them". She was just an average, divorced single mother, trying to get by in this crazy world.

Of course, parallels are immediately drawn, the illusion of "happily ever after" is shattered, and the fact that women have more in common with each other than most of us realize, is driven home.

I'm Goldilocks, always scurrying around trying to find something "just right", when everything is too big, too small, too hard, too soft, etc. The never-ending search for what doesn't exist, and the eventual realization that good enough is good enough.

Are you the one that realizes you're not in Kansas anymore? The one that realized someone you loved was really the big, bad wolf? The one smoking too much hooka, and living in a wonderland of illusion? The one taking care of way too many little bodies with their never ending needs? Which one?

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