I am afraid the only movie I watched over break was You and Me and Everyone you Know. I didn’t like it much. I mean, it was lovely- but I cannot stand movies where children are threatened. In real life, horrible things happen to children all the time. I guess I like to forget about that. When a decent movie puts a kid in danger, I get tense and sweaty and worried and it doesn’t matter what happens to the kid anymore- I am mad at the movie.
But I didn’t mind Beth dying. Perhaps because my mental-Beth is so different from any of the actresses playing her, I never felt that Beth was truly threatened. Or maybe, I don’t connect with poor little Beth like I should. Am I just callous?
What do you think? Kids being hurt in movies- does it make you mad? Glad that it raises awareness? Do you really like it because you can’t stand the little buggers? I don’t know.