As a mother of a five year old since this is. Rated PG....why have the prince kiss the wife? We walked out right away. No other explanation needed.
PG stands for "parental guidance" (hardly a demographic aimed at five-year-olds), whereas I think you were looking for a more rated G film. It's also a bit silly to have walked out, since bit the movie never condones the affair. There are two scenes detailing the negative outcome from the cheating.
shareWhat, and a mother chopping off her daughters' toes and heel or intentionally blinding a prince wasn't potentially more disturbing to a child than a scene of infidelity that stops at kissing? It fascinates me what some people will prioritize when it comes to shielding their children from harm.
shareA lot of people don't realize that was in the original story. They don't call it GRIMM for nothing.
shareI recall reading some of the original Grimm's text about the step sisters getting their toes chopped off years ago, but in the movie the step sisters went blind. Did that happen in the fairy tale as well? I didn't know in the original story the prince went blind. I agree, that was a downer that the prince and baker's wife kissed.
shareYes. Birds pecked out their eyes.
shareBecause it's important for the plot, the themes, and the character development.
shareExplain to me how the wife and the prince kissing was important to the plot, please, because I sure don't see it. The princess was probably going to leave him anyhow because she was sick of the marriage and had already ran off into the woods and was moping about, so the kiss was completely unnecessary to that development.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
It's important to the themes of human imperfection. Also, it's important for the Baker's Wife to have her realization afterward about what's really important, immediately followed by her death which shows random senseless tragedy. Those are the themes that the entire second act is based around. People make mistakes, fathers, mothers. And sometimes, for no reason at all, people leave you. But communities have to band together in times of distress. It all comes together in "No One is Alone."
shareShe had to make out with the prince in order to realize her husband and new baby were what was important? Give me a break. I want you to really stop and think on just how absolutely stupid that actually sounds.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
It's called a plot device; it is the way that the storyteller chose to make the point.
shareIt might sound stupid, but... people are stupid. Often they don't realise what's really important until they do something foolish, and lose what they had.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
I rewatched that part because I didn't catch the significance of the the five little birds watching them. Of course! A little bird told me!
shareCongratulations on expecting the world around you to be your child's parent.
Take some responsibility and, if you aren't familiar with the material, get to know if before you expose your child to it. That is what the ratings system is for.
Some people just get way too serious around here
Why the HELL did the OP take his/her five year old to a PG movie in the first place?
shareHonestly you can't count on the rating system to be a guide for children anymore, although I find the priorities a bit skewed here. In the past few years a movie trying to expose bullying rated R for some F bombs while its not hard these days to get a PG13 with massive amounts of violence, just minimize the blood and cursing. A parent has to ignore the ratings nowadays in favor of knowing the material. AND your child.
This particular instance, what are you truly shielding your child from with these puritanical views that violence is ok and yet an extramarital kiss is not. (Which it is wrong in real lif but not walk out of a theater in disgust wrong) A five year old probably didn't even understand because they kiss mummy and daddy and granny and paw and aunt Amy and uncle Rory all the time. But they surely understand a mum cutting off their childs toe and heel.
I can't say I am surprised because I have ran into mums who thought I was horrendous for letting my nine year old at the time watch reruns of Hercules and informed me that their children weren't even allowed to watch Finding Nemo because it caused them nightmares...
To each his own I suppose.
The ratings system seems to have been an effective guide in this case. It was PG-13, which clearly indicated that this might not be appropriate for children under the age of 13.
If the OP had counted on the ratings system, she would not have brought her 5 year old to see this film.
In my country (and it sounds like, in the OPs as well) it was simply rated PG.
Which I must agree seemed an overly low rating, PG-13/14A would have seemed more appropriate to me.
I mean the stepsisters getting heels and toes chopped off was downright intense, and the Prince and the Baker's wife came off more like a sex scene than a simple kiss (actually I had the impression that they did have sex but whatever).
It was a darker film than the PG/G rating it received in Canada would have implied to the average parent.
The prince represents the shoes. She got one shoe, she share the prince.
We walked out right away. No other explanation needed.
Then why ask?
Why not?
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