4/11/2023 0 Comments Pinocchio story donkey![]() ![]() (The Blue Fairy claims these baseline values are honesty, bravery, and selflessness.) My husband agreed with me and said that when he was young he thought Pinocchio was boring, but that he always assumed it was really a story about “turning from a boy to a man.” I said that I was sure its message would be metaphorical, that it’s really a story about how you aren’t a “true human being” until you learn basic human values like compassion and honesty. ![]() Last week, I was sharing with my husband what I expected to get out of Pinocchio when I watched it again. As an adult, the trippy elements didn’t really bother me, either - but to say I was unbothered by my rewatching of Pinocchio isn’t exactly true. But before she passed her judgment upon it, that never bothered me. It’s true, the whole thing is kind of trippy. I still remember her going on about how the movie “didn’t make any sense - a puppet that’s alive and then he turns into a donkey and then he gets swallowed by a whale. Then when I was about 7 or 8, my older sister pronounced it “stupid,” which was, of course, the kiss of death. As a child I remember renting it from the video store repeatedly, which implies I must have liked it once upon a time. Pinocchio is one of those movies I never gave a fair shake at the height of my Disney obsession. There is only one female character (the Blue Fairy), unless you count the fish, Cleo. Where I found it: My library’s DVD collection (70th Anniversary Edition)īechdel Test Score: Fail. ![]()
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