Guest Blogger: Heaven 1

Ever After is a Cinderella type story. It starts off with the queen of France telling the ‘true’ story of Cinderella to the grim brothers. She tells the story about a young eight-year-old tomboy named Daniel whose mother died before she could remember and was very close to her father who both shared a love for books. When he came to see young Daniel he gave her a gift, the book of Utopia, and started reading it to her a little. Her father told her that he had married a baroness named Rodmilla and that she was going to have two step sisters. Daniel was a little worried that they wouldn’t like her and was nervous about it but she was kind of excited at the same time. The step family came right before the father had to leave again for work but on his way he ended up dying right when he got to their gate. Daniel was then forced to grow up in a life of a servant in her own home for her step family. One day the prince went onto their property and ended up stealing a horse to run away from the guards chasing him. Daniel mistook him for a thief and threw an apple at him and then became very apologetic when she realized who it was. The prince paid her for the trouble he caused and for her to keep quiet about him. Daniel took the money and dressed up as a countess so she could go into town and free her friend from a debt collector. She meets up with the prince when she does this and the prince recognizes her but does remember where he’s seen her or that she was even a servant. He looks all over the kingdom to find her and she tries to avoid him because she was scared what would happen when he realizes she was a servant. He finds her a few times and the two kept meeting up in secret, but when the step mother and oldest daughter find out they try everything they can to sabotage her doing anything with the prince and they lock her up when the prince is having his royal ball to announce who he will marry. Leonardo de Vinci (friend of the prince) helps free her using science (he unlocked the door) so Daniel can go to the ball and tell the prince that she loves him and that she was really a servant (something she’s been trying to tell him along but was never able to). When she was about to tell her stepmother interferes and tells the prince that Daniel was a servant of hers. He getting upset (because he was judgmental about that kind of thing) stormed out of the castle. You’d have to watch the movie to see what would happen next.
The critics seemed to have liked the movie; it stayed true to the actual story but had a nice twist to it making it very refreshing. The language some of them said was more I the 1900s then the 1500s where the story takes place and that it could have been a little better for a few things. Personally I disagree with it the rating it got, it got about 3.6/5 and I think it should have been rated in the 4s. I think it would be a good idea to spend our money on this movie because it was really good and entertaining. I would not recommend this movie to people who don’t like fairy tales (or Cinderella in general) or if they don’t like a romance story otherwise I would strongly recommend this movie.