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Wien

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  1. As soon as I saw the trailer for this movie I knew I would never ever watch it. I hate blatant emotional manipulation in movies, which is also why I will never watch anything that has anything to do with Nicholas Sparks ever again. After my boyfriend ranting about this movie after seeing it at work, and this podcast I know I totally can't watch it because it WILL get me to cry and then I'll just be angry that I allowed it. But damn it I'm so curious...

     

    Also if anyone wanted to watch the video of the sad kids...

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFV1r45sAQ

     

    Oh those poor babies.

     

     

    Oh my God, that video changed my life. Those poor kids were DESTROYED by what they witnessed.

     

    The thing is, in prior examples of movies that introduce the concept of death to children, it was always delivered in a medium that was a bit more abstract to kids (like bambi a deer, or old yeller a dog). But this wasn't an animal... this was for all intents and purposes, a fucking human being! A child, no less! Disney sat a bunch of children down and made them watch a small child, one of their own visage, die before their very eyes.

     

    To the undeveloped mind of a child, whose attachments to movies have yet to have been separated from their attachments to real life, that response is totally appropriate.

     

    And it is hilarious.

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