The film does not begin with a state of equilibrium as proposed by the theory, as the first scene is a flashback scene with a voiceover description about the main characters' pasts. It explores the original story of their childhood that is well known all over the world and gives the audience a backstory and context before the actual story begins. This is not a state of equilibrium as the film begins immediately with the problem of the children being abandoned and kidnapped by a witch, proving that it does not conform to the first stage.
The second stage of narrative put forward by Todorov is the disruption of the equilibrium, which unlike the first is present in this film. The 'disruption' of the equilibrium is not of the main characters' balance, but of a small town instead as it is discovered that children have been going missing from the town over the last two weeks with no answers and witches are thought to be behind it. This is a disruption in the equilibrium that needs to be fixed.
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