Netflix’s Damsel is a terrifying metaphor for marrying into the royal family
They may be royalty, but that doesn’t make them good people,” says Angela Bassett’s character, towards the end of the first act of . She’s speaking to her stepdaughter Elodie – the protagonist of the No 1 charting Netflix film, – ahead of the latter’s arranged marriage to a wealthy prince. A few scenes later, Elodie’s new royal in-laws are sacrificially yeeting her into a dragon’s lair. “Not good people” is,
