Your condescension is unwarranted - though it does reveal a great deal about your own insecurity.
Anyone who thinks that they can so easily label a group of people - in this case, fans of "cartoons"/animation - is not a mature individual with a secure sense of themselves as an adult.
More likely, you're at that stage where you're just beginning to have adult responsibilities, and as a way of feeling very "adult" and "grown up" you're rejecting all the things you used to like. A lot of people go through that phase - but, in many cases, they end up throwing the babies out with the bathwater.
You can pretend to yourself that you're too "mature" for such "kiddie" work - but the only thing your words actually reveal is that you're insecure about your position in life. I also have a full-time job, and bills to pay, and various other responsibilities to fulfill - and yet I still enjoy animation as an artistic medium and I also don't feel the need to condescend to and insult everyone who feels differently about an art form than I do. I also have come to the point where I realize that "serious" doesn't inherently equal better or more sophisticated. Serious dramas about contemporary topics have their place, but I pity you if you can't also appreciate an utterly joyful, completely irrelevant short film such as Begone Dull Care.
You have an inflated sense of maturity. Deflate your ego a bit, and then, maybe, you'll actually learn to appreciate the finer things in life without worrying about how you think they make you look.
Animation as a whole is no more "kiddie" than any other medium - you've just been culturally trained to believe that it is inherently childish. I'm indifferent to this film, but if you were to learn something about the medium you'd realize how foolish your "cartoon=kiddie" conflation looks.
The field of animation is incredibly broad and has been a means of expression for a huge variety of artists concerned with a whole wide variety of different subjects. Animators as varied as Norman Mclaren, Tex Avery, Ladislas Starevich, Hayao Miyazaki, Chuck Jones, Satoshi Kon, Yuriy Norshteyn, Isao Takahata, Max Fleischer, etc. etc. have created works of rich artistry that are hugely varied in style and intent. Some create purely avant-garde works that stretch the medium of animation and film, others create child-like (though not chidlish) fantasies that can refresh and revitalize even crotchety adults such as yourself, while others explore adult themes and topics in ways that are astonishingly sophisticated and creative (and which wouldn't be possible with live action.)
Of course, maybe it's just that you're not interested in the medium of animation. That's fine - we all have our own likes and dislikes. However, if that's the case, you should probably spare us the condescension and just learn to say "well, it's not for me." That would be a perfectly acceptable position. Instead, you choose to demonstrate your own lack of adult understanding and maturity by condemning an entire artistic medium and anyone who has the audacity to enjoy any of the works in that medium.
I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here
reply
share