lunedì 5 luglio 2021

A witches' ball - 2016

 


Beatrix passes her last exam at school and becomes a full witch. There are other young students in her class, including a very annoying girl that always bullies her for not being a pure-bloodied witch, since her mother is human and so she’s only half-witch (only she does not have Draco’s charm…)

It is not clear to me why a boy had his last exam be food that can make his lemur speak. Even Beatarix rat speaks, it doesn’t seem so rare or strange.

Beatrix also has the best grades and is therefore made valedictorian and given an enchanted crystal ball that will give her inspiration for her speech at the witches’ ball, but the bad girl makes it fall and it breaks. She doesn’t tell anyone, because it is a special day also for her mother who will become a full witch like her, and then her dad tells her that it happened once before, and they had to cancel the whole thing. He tells her it was someone in her aunt Ophelia’s class, so she goes to the girl’s bar and asks for help. They ask an enchanted pumpkin and learn they have to find three witches, one old and wise, one so very kind and one pure of heart, or something like that.

She goes among trees looking for the wisdom witch, it turns out to be a small man-witch.  She asks him to fix the ball, and the four pieces become three.

They go dress hunting and meet the prat Jasmine, who acts all sweety and mom and grandma fall for it, since Beatrix never told them anything about her.

Beatrix finds the kindness witch, a mermaid who fixes the other half, so she has two parts now.

Her grandfather is the original witch of pure love, or something, only he’s a mess and hasn’t been able to arrive yet. The pumpkin tells her that she could also use the tears of the one who broke it, Jasmine, and it would be repaired.

The Ball is a big big thing, red carpet style, and mom Brooke organised it. Her parents show up, rather freaked out by everything.

Beatrix arrives with her dad, but no Oren, the grandpa, witch of pure love, he couldn’t be there in person. She still doesn’t know what to do.

As part of the night entertainment, Jasmine and her mom sing a song, and it’s no surprise that they chose the song that Brooke told them she was going to sing with her daughter. Beatrix doesn’t let that get her down because she wants to cheer her mom up, so they sing their own version, which is modern and actually beautiful.

Beatrix hears Jasmine and her mom talking, and that woman is really harsh and the little girl was hurt and a little bit crying when Beatrix finds her. They talk and hug and sort of bury the hatchet, and Jasmine volunteers to give her her tears for the ball, but it doesn’t work because Beatrix realises that it was her own fault all along, she flaunted it at her face in the first place, but instead of crying to fix it, she wants to make it right without magic… and she stands in front of everyone and gives an emotional speech about all the love she always had behind, and shows them all the two pieces of the ball, telling them how she found the wisdom witch and the kindness witch, but how there is no pure love witch, and it turns out that now there is one, now that Brooke is a witch it turns out her trade is in fact pure love. So the ball is repaired after all, and Jasmine goes to hug her.

During the credits we see grandpa Oren being let out of the prison cell, but then he makes another mess, and is locked in again. He is old enough, has he never learnt to shut up and put the damn wand down? sigh… some people never learn…


Beatrix- Morgan Neundorf

Brooke- Karen Slater



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