I know a friend who is a mother who can't watch Clint Eastwood's Changeling because of all the child suffering. I see that film and it honestly does nothing to me the kids being axed. I don't know what that says about me, but I see any animal suffering and I am devastated. Is that stupid? I think what she said is stupid but I'm not sure if I'm the same.
shareAnimal suffering is very horrible
Kid suffering is way worse
LET ME HAVE IT CAKE..!
I have to agree that I find animal suffering in films harder to watch than children's. And I get more sentimental about animal stories as well.
shareWho do we save in real life..?
The canoe is sinking and You need to toss one out to keep afloat...the human baby or the cute puppy...
I will cry as I do it but that puppy will never be a cancer scientist nor the first Lady President, etc...
I am tossing the puppy and saving the baby
Feel free to yell at me
but is it stupid? I definitely find stupid to not watch a film or like a film just because there is child suffering, but animal suffering is an entirely different thing to me, mainly because the laws just don't protect them.
shareI don't think that it's stupid to have animal suffering in films effect you. I sometimes feel embarrassed to admit it. That's why I joined this thread. So I can say it out loud to someone of a like mentality.
I don't watch Hitchcock's 'Marnie' because of a horse scene in it. I immediately turn off a western if someone has to shoot a suffering horse. Immediately they get the gun out and aim, I switch the film quickly off. Also I hate it when someone kills someone's pet out of spite in a film. That very often happens in Lifetime thrillers.
but is it stupid?
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yeah
I completely agree.
shareThis might be the first time I actually agree with you.
shareKids before animals.
shareI agree with you. Any kind of child or animal suffering makes me super depressed. Who wants to watch that? Answer- nobody!!!!
shareI find myself reacting the same way. Though I tend to think it's because we know that a child in a movie is acting. We know the animal isn't really suffering but it seems more real because animals don't "act." I don't really consider animals to be more important than children.
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