Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Dilemma

I have a dilemma...
My daughter is obsessed with a movie that does not sit well in my gut. Here is the basic story line. Girl is sixteen, father is the king. She constantly breaks her father's trust by going outside the kingdom's boundaries to explore. He reprimands her, she fights back and does it again. One day on one of her adventures, she sees a boy that she is taken aback by... falls in love so to speak. Her father is furious, she runs away to be with him. Remember she is only sixteen. She seeks the advice of a witch and makes a deal with her to be with this boy she has fallen in love with against her father's wishes. In the end, her father concedes, gives in, and she runs off into the sunset with this man...
sounds crazy that a two year old would love this movie huh?
well before you get all judgemental on me let me tell you the name of it... Little Mermaid, heard of it? Problem is it is a Disney Princess that she is totally obsessed with... as I thought about taking the movie away, I realized almost every other Disney princess movie has some underlying theme of disobedience to their parents...I mean doesn't Jasmine jump off her balcony in the middle of the night to ride around town in her boyfriend's car (magic carpet) all night? ... aaahh... we love Disney... can't they make a movie that just follows the rules? maybe we should stick with bambi.. but there are no princesses in that one

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I have the same problems with them. So far Syd hasn't watch any of the Disney Princess movies except a Tea Party Sing Along one. They all have things that I'm not so big on, whether disobedience, or witches, or just plain scary. Check that, we have watch Beauty and the Beast, but Jeff and I sat through it with her cause of the scary parts but I think that's the most "safe" one there is although still a little sketchy in parts.So frustrating for a parent of a little girl who is totally into princesses and doesn't understand why she can't watch the movies.