"Talk to Her"

The story of Sleeping Beauty goes like this: a beautiful baby princess is born. She is cursed by a witch to sleep forever until she is kissed by her true love. She gets kissed and then lives happily ever after with her prince. 

This idea ties back to the Middle Ages, when such a thing was common. What I mean by this is, it was a knight's duty to rescue a damsel in distress, particularly a beautiful one.

I believe that the film holds similar ideas to the Sleeping Beauty fairy tail. In 'Talk to Her' Alicia and Lydia are the sleeping princesses. Alicia is able to wake up because of Benigno's 'kiss.' He wakes her up with his touch because he is her 'prince,' there to rescue her from her deep sleep. However, Lydia is not as lucky. Marco is unable to become truly comfortable with her in her comatose state, especially after he finds out that she and her ex have gotten back together. Depressed, he stays away. Lydia, without her prince to rescue her, dies a year later. There is no 'happily ever after' for her. In truth, there is no happily ever after for Alicia and Benigno either. She wakes up, but her prince is gone and it seems she doesn't realize that he is the one who rescued her. Benigno, believing he has failed to rescue his love, then commits suicide. However, it then seems as if the 'true' prince and princess from this story find each other at the end (Alicia and Marco), and it seems as though they will live happily ever after together.