Victims of abuse don't get fairy-tale endings

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Here's a disturbing little video about domestic violence, from French director Jérôme Genevray, that shows a little girl telling her mother's story in the form of a fairy tale—only the narrative quickly begins to turn grim, and the tale veers inexorably toward a very unhappy ending. The brutality of domestic abuse and the innocence of children are often juxtaposed in this way—memorably so in last year's Finnish PSA which showed a girl re-enacting with her dolls the same abuse she is suffering at the hands of her mother.

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