So basically Stockholm Syndrome with Beastiality!

This movie is like the cleaned up kid's version of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Bus Stop, and all the other Hollywood and Arthouse movies pushing that "Sociopathic Kidnapper with a Heart of Gold" trope. I can only think about all the little girls who wound up in abusive relationships being informed by this stupid movie. "He'll change, eventually...I just need to have faith in him, like Belle..." *tear rolls down from blackened eye down busted cheek*

Realistically speaking, Beast was so far gone when he met Belle that he would've raped the shit out of her before tearing her apart and turning her into a stuffed trophy or throwing her carcass out the window. I love how stupid movies like this think that just because it's a kid's film that they don't have to adhere to some semblance of reality. You can't have a cartoon character express that level of pent-up rage and always be on the cusp of doing something rash before controlling himself. That's not how it plays out in real life.

Not really. There are really dumb people that jump to conclusions about that over this film.

If Belle truly had Stockholm Syndrome, she would have suffered a lot more abuse at the hands of the Beast than she actually did, and she would have let her dad die in the woods, rather than run off and rescue him.

The beastiality idea is stupid because there was no sex between her and the Beast.

Lol, yes, people are silly.