Tender heart

[jethrien]

We tried to watch Cars yesterday. ARR finally begged to stop because he didn't like it. He didn't like that Lightning's "friends" knocked people off the race track, he was afraid that when Mack got sleepy he was going to break or break a bridge, and he was horrified that Lightning got harnessed to the big machine when he didn't want to be. I think movies are just still a little too much for the little guy--anything with real conflict is just too distressing.

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I used to only like movies I'd already seen. Anything else stressed me too much. Of course, there's a recursive problem there.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I actually tried sitting him down and telling him what was going to happen next. That got us another ten minutes, and then he decided it was too much.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Knowing ARRs fondness for cars, trucks, and similar mechanical things, I wonder if he'd have less of a reaction to movies with more organic characters? Thinking of movies without any really scary conflict--maybe Cinderella? Or the Goofy Movie, if you can stand it as adults :) (I hated it mostly because I hated the sullen teenager voice they got for Max instead of the kid voice they used on Goof Troop).

I have no idea what I was watching at 3. An American Tail was probably around 4, since it came out in 1986, I remember it pretty far back, and my parents certainly would have been enthusiastic about the most Jewish animated movie of all time. The "little boy separated from his family" plot probably isn't going to go over so well for ARR, though.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I doubt it. We did ok with Winnie the Pooh, but that's extremely episodic and has very little in the way of conflict. Mary Poppins was not a hit, and similarly had to be abandoned halfway through. He loved Curious George until George climbed into an excavator, which was against the rules, and ARR was aghast.

I'd picked Cars partially because y'know, cars, but actually mostly because the climax doesn't involve monsters or real peril. But apparently, just the fact that Mack was driving was sleepy was frightening, even though no one got hurt, because of the potential for someone getting hurt. He doesn't like seeing people break rules, he doesn't like seeing people be emotionally distressed. Which kind of rules out pretty much all feature-length films at the moment. I think watching Cinderella cry would probably not go over well.