alt Hacker NewsOne of the great things about the movie is how children are portrayed. When the sea plane pirates take a bunch of kids hostage at the beginning of the movie, you don’t see any parents panicking. The kids are relaxed. The pirates clearly understand the social contract where they can’t split up the kids from their friends.
It’s such a different take from modern parenting and today’s anxiety filled culture.
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brohoolio • today at 1:20 AM
Obviously the movie for all its strengths and beautiful flying is still sexist. When showing it to my kids I simply disclosed it’s how things used to be and it wasn’t right and things are better now. And we need to keep them better.
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> It’s such a different take from modern parenting and today’s anxiety filled culture.
There has to be a happy media between "I can't let my kids play outside or walk to school" and "Pirates took them? No need to panic. It'll probably work out."