Damsel

 Millie Bobby Brown can hardly put a foot wrong. But what does this tell you about her new movie Damsel, which is now on Netflix?


In this action adventure fantasy movie the Stranger Things star plays a Damsel in distress, who can’t rely on a handsome prince to come and rescue her, but basically, well, she has to save her own skin. And by the time the movie is finished, she has the scars and bruises to show for it! 




Damsel is directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, whose short film Esposados scored an Oscar nomination and then made the well received movies Intacto and  28 Weeks Later,
It is written by Dan Mazeau, who also has some big credits to his name like Fast X and Wrath of the Titans.

Damsel tells the story of Elodie (Brown) a young princess who likes to go hunting and fishing, but is suddenly married off by her father the king cause he needs the money to help his people to survive the winter.

Even though Elodie doesn’t like this proposition one bit, she at least thinks that she will have a perfect wedding with wedding dress to match.

But on the night before the wedding she is thrown into a pit as a sacrifice to appease a bloodthirsty dragon. Elodie isn’t the first, but merely the latest in a long line of princesses to suffer a similar fate. 

Fortunately, the others have managed to leave clues behind, in the hope that one day one of them will make it out.

It’s never really in doubt who that princess will be, the moral of the story is that when Elodie realizes that no one is coming to save her and that this ‘damsel’ must save herself.

Damsel is a spirited, and yes, a very feminist movie and it’s not a surprise that in this movie the patriarchy gets its ass kicked yet again. 

At times, Elodie is the live action version of a modern Disney princess, who has a lot of heart and isn’t afraid to take matters in her own hand. 

And with a strong supporting cast that includes the likes of Ray Winstone, Angela Bassett and Robin Wright, this looks like another win for the Millie Bobby Brown camp.

Aside from Stranger Things, she already has a second Netflix-franchise in Enola Holmes. Maybe Damsel will become the third!








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