He was sort of protecting her...kinda...You can tell since when he gets the knife out he attempts to kill herhimself he stops. He never really was protecting her as such, he just couldn't bring himself to kill her.

First of all, I feel like putting a poll on this sort of prevents conversation because nearly everything someone could say is one of the poll options.

Also, you should make more general threads instead of so specific questions and comments, like this one for example could have just been a Malificent thread, and you could have broken the ice with your question. That way, after the question has been discussed, the thread could continue with other discussions about the film. Also the forum won't be getting flooded with new threads quite so much.

On topic though, I never actually saw that movie so I can't really say.