A confused disaster of a movie, with no thought given towards the implications of its characterizations or its blatant, baseless plagiarism.

There is no discernable purpose to adding in a shot-by-shot remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast in the middle of this film. It provides no commentary or new recontextualization (simply making it take place in a digital world is not enough, every single shot in this sequence has the exact same meaning here in terms of establishing a romance that it did in the original film). This does not function as an homage or an fresh retelling, it is hamfisted exploitation of familiarity to lazily make the audience more comfortable with the work without using it's own devices. This sort of plagiarism reflects the notion that the filmmakers are innately deserving of interest without appropriately earning it, which parallels the film's thematic shortcomings as well.

Thematically Belle comes to represent the negative flip-side of Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time. Where Evangelion 3.0+1.0 deconstructs what people tend to think is important when crippled by insecurity and points instead towards living in a productive way that rewards both you and the people around you, Belle represents the exploitation of arbitrary preconception as a way towards propping up notions of the importance of oneself over others.
(i.e. Thinking you're the main character of reality and your problems are more important than others, therefore living with the intent of propping up these selfish delusions rather than treating others with equal respect as a fellow individual.)

Every element of Belle props up the protagonist as the most important person in the universe. She has a backstory that is easily taken as tragic so her problems are immediately given paramount importance over others. Her "true self" in the virtual world is a beautiful goddess, while everyone else is represented as cartoonish caricatures. Everyone who opposes her is an irrational, irredeemable villain to be defeated.

This is the fundamental root of human evil. The notion that you are more important than other people, that your place in the universe is of greater significance, is what causes someone to harm, assault, or kill someone else when they have become characterized as the enemy to what is of cosmic importance (you, not them). It causes you to make the environment uninhabitable for others, it causes you to live your life with paramount concern for your own immediate gratification rather than towards improving circumstances for yourself and others.

_In a World of U
For the Praise of U_