"Godly sorrow [heart-felt penitence] leads to life." (epistle to the Romans) "Turn from your wickedness and live." (book of Ezekiel) I don't think I've seen a movie yet that deals with this essential experience of the human condition, that is the ability to respond to God's love and goodness with a truly penitent heart. The audience is still too immature for that since penitence involves a certain depth of self-knowledge and an ability to admit one's own failings and need to turn one's life around. Human frailty is universal, yet all these movies today avoid that completely, turning to super heroes or characters with outrageous powers, like Maleficent to distract us from our troubled souls. The phrase that has been haunting me today is from an old hymn "...whose souls condemned and dying were precious in his sight." I'm really off topic, but without a good father-figure, this movie will not portray true redemption, since the Gospel is essentially about what a Father will do to save his lost children. "I'm not evil, just misunderstood." makes Maleficent sound like she is trying to rationalize or justify her evil behavior, instead of admitting that how she reacted to the person who wronged her was wrong.