
We’ve all seen the movie where the prince saves the princess from [insert danger here]. But what if the princess saves herself instead? She can even still have a prince if she wants — but her choice and actions dictate her fate and not some age-old tradition or a plight to save the kingdom. Though feminist-leaning fairytales are harder to find than the dime-a-dozen classic damsel stories, they do exist, and we’ve seen more of them in the past decade than ever before.
"Damsel" is streaming on Netflix