Not only does the brave little toaster have a song where cars in a junkyard sing about how worthless they are before they are crushed to death but one of those cars drives himself onto the conveyor belt before the magnet can put them there because he wanted to die on his own terms.
There are no cats in America is actually a deeply troubling introspection of American immigrant racism of both the immigrant and the recipient country.
Side note: it never fails to miff me, that bible bashers burned women and children alive at the stake, and instead of seeing that as a travesty, media backs up the bible bashers and demonises witches. People who were mainly midwives and healers. It hurts my brain.
Pfft whatever. I grew up with super friends. It was the most watered down, sanitized version of super hero action you can get. My daughter watches kids superhero stuff and they actually fight all the time. She reads the warriors books that have parts where cats rip each other to shreds.
Things are different these days of course, but this post is horseshit.
I loved that movie, how weird it was compared with The Wizard of Oz. I think I may be one of only a few people our age who wasn’t terrified by it. Now, that one scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, on the other hand, I wasn’t ready…
It is also OK not to be the best, or even to be the worst!
It is OK to acknowledge your behavior or thoughts are bad and to really experience your negative behaviors and thoughts - you can regret or feel sadness about them without looking away to escapism.
Finally, even if you are the worst among your peers, at least you aren't as bad or sad as characters of old fashioned tragedies and cautionary tales which are meant to give kids intuitive understanding of the three principles above.
The witches. Mother fuck that movie. This scene, and really the whole movie gave me the creeps as a kid. Charlie and the chocolate factory weirded me out too. Fuck Roald Dahl.
I used to love his books as a kid. It was only as an adult that I realised that torturing and murdering children was his favourite theme in his kids books.
Y'all youngins had it easy. Give Rikki Tikki Tavi a spin. Orson Well was a horrifying narrator for a children's cartoon. I had nightmares forever behind that show.
It is not for kids. Deliberately made to be a fantasy story for adults. The puppets don't mean it is for kids but, like cartoons, puppets got lumped into a "kids" categories for literally no reason.