Cautionary Tales

The original fairy tales did not have the happy endings as we know them to be, for example in the story of the Little Mermaid, she dies in the end.  In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf represented sexual predators, and Little Red represented innocent girls.The most noticeable was when the wolf asked Little Red to get into bed with him when he was dressed like grandma. The lesson being, to listen to your parents, don't listen or talk to strangers. In the original tale of Sleeping Beauty, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep,  rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.  Cautionary Tales is a modern day reminder to wake up and revisit those original fairy tales whose purpose was to warn society of social predators those suffering from various degrees of mental illnesses, anti social personality disorders and psychopaths.  Lifetime movies seem more like fiction than truth but they are quite common.  This "tale"  explores the pysche of a charming social predator with a deformity his family hides, his targeting of women and colleagues outside of his social network, his ability to lure and bait facilitated by a network of underserved peers, who benefit from his deception.  Once he is discovered and the heroine escapes (leaving is dangerous as many women are killed  or threatened with his suicide)  she is ceremoniously and symbolically buried in the deepest darkest  part of his house and a new tale is devised to explain the disappearance, all that is left of the escaped women are their shells (clothes).