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Am I the only one who was upset by Dumbo and his mom being separated?

posted 8 years ago by judasfm
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It's just that most people who talk about traumatic scenes in this movie zoom in on the pink elephants. As a young child, they didn't bother me at all (though it took me a few years to figure out why there were there XD)

But the scene where Dumbo's torn away from his mom and she's beaten away from him with a whip and chained up as she tries desperately to get to her child...when I was a kid, that completely destroyed me. Even as an adult, I have difficulty watching it. For me, that one ranked higher than the donkey scene in Pinocchio.

-"I may be on the side of the angels, but don't think for one second that I am one of them."

[–] Squit78 8 years ago

I cried so much as a kid at this scene, and then when she cuddles him through her jail cell bars. Heartbreaking!

[–] liscarkat (16476) 5 years ago

Of course you're not the only one. The whole point of the scene is to upset the audience.

[–] Furienna (3312) a year ago

Indeed.
It is an uneven movie, but that is some powerful scenes.

[–] strntz (10779) 5 months ago

I don't remember how old I was when I saw this (on Sunday night on the Walt Disney World of Color), but it was the first time I ever cried watching a movie - I'm guessing I was maybe 5 at the time, and I was sobbing. I remember my mother holding me and telling me it was just a story, not real. I'm 66 now and have never forgotten that.