Only love can give us wings

I am a huge fan of Angelina Jolie because she is one of those women who defies the rules and is not afraid to be who she is regardless of what people may say about her. Regardless of what words are spoken against her, she accepts who she is for what she is.  And last night watching her in Maleficent I became an even greater fan of hers.

Angelina finds those stories that are not mainstream.  Those stories that show the dichotomy that resides within us all. The thin line between love and hate. Those stories that evoke debate and conversation about who we are and how easily we can be corrupted when we are not satisfied with who we are on the inside. When we become so obsessed with being something that we are not that we trade true love for something that will poison our hearts forever. that will send us wandering in the wilderness of darkness trying to find the prize of power that keeps eluding us. 

Maleficent is a story about love – true and pure love. It is a story that touches the heart and awakens the good and evil that resides within us all. Show us how easily love comes into our lives because we are all creatures of love regardless of where we come from. And then how quickly our hearts can be crushed from love that turns against us because it is seeking power. And when we choose power over love, we invite the darkness in.

Maleficent asks us to question why people turn evil. Asks us to see the story of love and hate, good and evil from both sides. Challenges us to question who is evil and who is good. It is a story about how greed and power can turn us into dark monsters. Lusting for something that is outside of love. Craving for a power over there that is not within us and is not us such that when we get it, we spend the rest of our lives looking over our shoulders.  Paranoid that the power that we have achieved at the expense of love, at the expense of another, is not ours for the keeping. Terrified that the way we attained our power will come back to avenge us. Knowing deep down the greed we carried for power is against the core of what we are all looking for – love.

It is the story of good turning bad because of lust, power and greed.  A wonderful story about how we lose our wings when we turn cold and close our hearts because we have been let down by life and love. Only regaining our wings and who we truly are, when we open ourselves to be loved and to give love - true love. And sometimes that love comes from the place we least expect. It comes from us and from no one else. We cannot know love until we become love.

Maleficent is a story well worth seeing because it is a story that tells us no matter what, the only light that can carry us through the darkness is love. Not power. Not greed. Not hate. Only love is our salvation. Only love can give us wings. Maleficent is a story about true and unconditional love.