Where else can you go to experience Arabian nights, fly on a magic carpet with a Princess, have a big blue Genie as your best friend, or escape the great Cave of Wonders? There is only one place, and that is while watching Walt Disney's Aladdin.
Aladdin is a great movie for children among the many others Walt Disney Studios have helped to create because there are a lot of great lessons incorporated in the movie, yet still a lot of room for children to use their imagination in it as well.
In the movie, Aladdin is a thief who falls in love with Agrabah's Princess, Jasmine. Before he attempts to really try and woo her, he is asked to go inside the Cave of Wonders and retrieve a lamp for the evil Jafar. While in the cave, Aladdin and his monkey friend named Abu seek the lamp for themselves. Genie comes out and is able to grant three wishes to Aladdin thus helping Aladdin become a Prince which is what he will think will attract Princess Jasmine to him, and starting a lasting friendship with Genie.
Aladdin learns the hard way that it is not about how much money he has, how good looking he is, or how much power he has that could get Princess Jasmine to fall in love with him. She actually doesn't care about money, power, or looks, but what's inside Aladdin and what kind of a person he is. She is sick of all of the Princes being all the same just caring about themselves and not others. Aladdin doesn't understand that at first, but throughout the movie he learns lots of important messages the hard way about what truly matters in life.
In the movie, Aladdin also makes the mistake of taking his true friends for granted which is the Genie, Magic Carpet, and even Abu. He put his needs and wants in front of those that truly cared for him and for a second he almost lost everyone that mattered to him in his life.
Yet in the end, he learned that it is better to be his true self to other people if he wanted people to like and love him back, to treat friends very respectfully because they truly are a gift, and to never take anything for granted especially the people that are in his life. He also learned that true love is when both parties know the truth about each other, and no one is pretending to be anyone other than themselves.
These lessons are great for children to learn at an early age in life, for it is something that will stick with them when they form new relationships with other people. And as we all know, throughout our lifetimes we will have plenty of chances to form plenty of relationships with others whether they are friendships, community relationships, and so forth and so on.
If our children can learn these valuable lessons at an early age in life, to where it will always stick with them, then can you imagine how much more love and respect would fill our world and especially theirs?
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