The School for Good and Evil
Through my time in university, my good friends have come to see me as a big Disney fanatic. I am a big fan of nearly everything Disney – I reckon I know all of the words to every Disney song out there. I am so happy to say that The School for Good and Evil doesn’t let me down.
This movie does not only have a killer soundtrack but it makes you question the way that you think about the world around you. What does it mean to be truly evil? What does it mean to be exceptionally good? The School for Good and Evil seems to express how the world sets these things to appear in black and white and how everything can be sorted into two categories – Good and Evil.
After watching this movie, you can see that this way of thinking will get you nowhere. People may appear to be good or evil however at the end of the day can have an array of different qualities that could be sorted into either.
Through this entire movie, the character Agatha, played by Sofia Wylie, had captured my heart. She was seen as a Witch but through the course of the movie you see she was sorted into the school of Good and through the movie she proves herself worthy of her sorting by always staying true to herself, and standing by her friends no matter what.
Sophie, played by Sophia Anne Caruso, on the other hand seemed to always feel as though she belonged in the house of good, when arriving at the School of Evil even those around her seemed to see her as being a Princess. Sophie seemed to grow into this evil persona in her attempt to find good, which I feel as though is something that many people can relate to. She lost focus of her goal and ended up straying.
In the end I relate to both of these characters – when it is so dead set that you are one persona and you don’t always understand why people sorted you there it can be very hard, whether it is into the School of Good or the School of Evil.
Despite the colorful spectrum that is between good and evil, do you know which school you will find yourself sorted into?
