What Do People Do With Ever After As a Media Text?

Ever After is a media form that fulfills certain aspects of personal identity, personal relationships, and diversion for consumers. In terms of personal identity, this media plays a certain role in defining  us through our taste and choices in how we gain information and enjoyment. Ever After, especially in the case of teenagers and young adults, helps to shape how we perceive our actions and wants. In this case especially, the film has the effect of showcasing the virtues of kindness and compassion and how those who are cruel and selfish will not win in the end. In addition to teaching values that begin to define us as people, the movie introduces the exploration of personal relationships. This film, although inaccurately, represents the rules and rituals of romance and emotions, which many young consumers may learn from. This media text offers its audience a surrogate relationship between Danielle and the prince, which sets up expectations and ideals of what a 'good' relationship in the real world would include. This is not to say that this text is a positive force on creating healthy relationships, just that it does influence the way consumers begin to perceive what it means to be in love. Lastly, the film uses ideas that lead to the use of the text as a diversion from reality. The quaint and historical setting of Renaissance France, along with the dream of becoming a princess and falling madly in love with a prince, may be used as an escape for those desperate for such a relationship of their own. Therefore, Ever After as a film  has many uses in the lives of consumers.