[ SECRET POST #2728 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2728 ⌋

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Comments

[ansela_jonla]

Watership Down is for kids?

[kaijinscendre]

Duh.

[ansela_jonla]

This reminds me of my local library's policy regarding all animation (before they went and sold off the whole DVD collection bit by bit, starting with live-action sci-fi/fantasy).

Every single animated film in the collection was rated as "all ages". The collection included La Blue Girl, Ninja Scroll, and Urotsukidoji.

[visp]

Why had your library acquired a copy of La Blue Girl?

[ansela_jonla]

I never asked. I assumed it was just a case of "animated, Japanese, probably about a girl who's blue" with not a single person reading the summary on the box or googling the title at any point.

[insanenoodlyguy]

Fuck, just look at the picture on the box!

[(Anonymous)]

Probably it was donated by someone.

I remember as a kid getting into anime I rented every anime tape our two local rental places had, and they had the same policy of all animation being "all ages" which meant I got introduced to hentai very early.

[houtarouh]

I was reminded of a library I used to volunteer back in Westminster, California and they had Cowboy Bebop: The Movie, along with The End of Evangelion in the Children's section...

[nightscale]

My local library was the same, shit that really wasn't suitable for kids in the kids section just because it was animated.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember there was a local video store that did the reverse. All anime was 18+, regardless of the title.

[sparklywalls]

I was gonna say! I think it is classed as for kids but really, it's pretty rough going.

I did watch it as a kid because I'd read the book. But that scene where you get the dream sequence as you see what happens to the original warren still makes me feel awful even 20ish years after I first watched it.

[(Anonymous)]

"We couldn't get out!" Jesus Christ. My mother is claustrophobic and about had a heart attack when she saw it. The way he says it ...

[sparklywalls]

It's the being buried alive aspect that gets me. Just because they're rabbits never made it any less terrifying to imagine and in fact, I can definitely imagine an equivalent situation like that with humans turning out similarly.

[(Anonymous)]

My mother had a near miss with a cinema fire when she was a teen. Sandleford Warren, being trapped, people choking to death and trampling each other in a blind panic ... There's been two times an animated movie has caused someone in our house to freak out and turn the thing off. One was my sister watching an animated version of "The Tell-Tale Heart", and one was my mother watching "Watership Down".

[sparklywalls]

I'm sorry to hear that anon, but I completely understand why things like Watership Down would cause a freak out. It's bad enough watching it when you're not claustrophobic or have not experienced anything in real life like it. In fact, sometimes I think animation can be worse for setting off these sorts of reactions because of the other worldly aspect and the fact you can possibly get away with showing some much nastier stuff (at a lower rating) when it isn't live action.

[(Anonymous)]

Being fair in Watership Down's case, she had actually read the book, so she knew what was coming. I think it was something about Holly's voice? The way he says it, "We couldn't get out!", or just the whole hearing/seeing it instead of imagining it from a page. She wasn't expecting it to set her off so bad, but holy shit it hit like a sledgehammer. Her reaction I think scared me more than the movie, mostly because ... it made the stuff in the movie more real? Like these aren't cartoon things, these are things that actually happen. And then you get up to Efrafa and the Warren of the Shining Wires, and those things happen too, and it's horrifying.

It's still an incredibly movie. It's actually one of my favourites, but it's not ... It uses cartoon animals to show some really horrifying things, and while it softens them more than live action would, maybe, the animation and fantasy elements remove it that little bit more from reality, it still doesn't soften them all the much.

[(Anonymous)]

My dad read me the book when I was about seven, but the movie still makes me feel physically ill.

[ketita]

idk, I read the book when I was a kid...

[(Anonymous)]

I watched Watership Down when I was about 5 years old and it's been one of my favourite animated films ever since. It's classed as a U (meaning suitable for all ages) here in the UK. So yeah, it's a kids film.

[(Anonymous)]

I find that curious, since apparently movies like 'Wreck-it-Ralph' and 'Frozen' have PG ratings in the UK. Apparently rabbits having their throats ripped out is less questionable than rampaging snow beasts and bloodless, off screen death.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, being rated for all ages doesn't make something a kids film. I also saw 2001 Space Odyssey when I was 10. That doesn't make it a kids film.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah yes, I remember when "Felidae" was shown during the kiddie afternoon program because someone probably just took a short look and decided "Eh, kitties, animation, must be a kid's movie".