The live action remake of "Beauty and the Beast" is currently conquering the world as it continues to roar at the top of the box office. The movie is also receiving stellar reviews from fans and critics. Everything is going well so far for the film, except perhaps some viewers was able to take note of this one glaring plot hole in "Beauty and the Beast."
"Beauty and the Beast" remake is a wonderful homage to the 1991 animated classic. From the set pieces to the songs, everything in Dan Stevens and Emma Watson's movie lived up to the magic of the original. (Warning: spoilers ahead!)
At the end of the film, when the curse was broken and everyone was back to their human form, it was revealed that some of the villagers are actually family members of the servants who were stuck in Beast's castle.
It has been made clear that it took many years before the spell was lifted. Ideally, this would mean the villagers have begun to age, while those in the castle lived as antiques through the years. However, the contrary appeared in the film. The villagers appear to be around the same age as their cursed family members at the time they reunited. How could this possibly be?
One Redditor had a simple answer: a time loop. According to Redditor Hainted, the curse did not just affect those in the castle, but the entire nearby village as well. The Enchantress erased everyone's memories of the prince and the castle and "locked the village in a time loop." This stopped them from ever ageing and at the same time made them live a monotonous, routine life. In "Little Town," Belle appears to be singing about how people in the village do the same predictable thing everyday.
Hainted went on to explain that Belle and Maurice are the only ones in the village that aged. They moved to the village after the curse has been set up, and were thus not affected by it in anyway. This theory explains why Belle and his father are considered outcasts and odd ones.
Meanwhile, "Beauty and the Beast" has grossed $335.6 million so far domestically, Forbes reports. In just under two weeks, the romantic musical has surpassed the domestic totals of "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Batman v Superman" and "Suicide Squad."