The things we overlook

No, we don’t want to wake up to reality thankyou very much.

Ok lets get right back into it. Yes I know you’ve missed me, and I know I let you all down, but lets stop crying about it, cause I’m here now. Man I feel powerful.
So holidays have been boring so far; I spent all my money on Tuesday, and this means I have put myself on house arrest, and also means I can’t wear my new clothes. But when your bored, you find really odd ways to amuse yourself. When I could have been, making presents, doing my holiday assignment and revision, exercising, seeing friend, instead I have been watching tv, playing grand theft auto, finding sensless downloadable computer games which become oh so addictive, and have you searching for a different site to download your next ‘1 hour free trial’ from, just so you can finish your level. I also decided instead of playing the sims, I would relive my childhood. I found a game that I used to play back when I loved the movie “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron”. I was so excited, because I remembered loving that game, what having to save all the horses from their humans, collecting carrots from a rabbit to run faster, and racing the eagle for pointless feathers that in the end did nothing. So I downloaded this game, and finished the whole thing in an hour, sadly. But as I was playing, I was thinking about just how strange kids movies are. I mean, we all love them, even today. However there were things in those kids movies that really we took for granted. There were things that we never bothered to find out whether they were true, we just wanted to be in our magic happy land, where everyone got a happy ever after, and animals talked, and we all had a pet tiger. But these movies were telling us lies, all lies! I mean have you ever seen a Disney movie about a kid who begs for money on the street, because his dad left him and his mum is at home with some other guys kid? No of course not, not unless you want to make it Disney! Where the kid finds out in fact he is a prince in a far away land, where everything is made of candy, and he never needs to worry again. They give us what we want. But to do this they need to give us some lies, and I for one think it is terrible that they lull us into this false sense of security, and then when we get into the real world we find that it isn’t like that at all. In fact even princesses don’t wear gowns, or go on magic carpet rides. They are just like us, only with a crown, power and money.
So I would just like to point out some of the misleading things in Disney movies.

Lion King: Frankly, I don’t think the lions would ever care about the ‘circle of life’. All real lions would really care about would be eating food, not about ‘when we die, we turn into the grass, and the antelope eat the grass’. Carnivores would not care about perfecting this great circle of life, I mean look at us, we don’t go around going ‘when I die, I get cremated, and I turn into the grass, and the cows eat the grass, regardless of whether I am scattered in a cow paddock, this is the great circle of life’. And if lions were really as hungry as they were under scars rule, why didn’t they eat timon and pumba? I mean they weren’t lions, yet they are always there, and they don’t eat them! In fact why did Simba eat bugs, when those two were right in front of him, singing ‘no worries’. They seem to have forgotten that lions like meat, and when they are hungry, they don’t care about perfecting the circle of life, they want food, and if they are friends with a meerkat and a wild pig, they are going to eat them!
That being said I do love the lion king, it makes me cry everytime.

Aladin: Ok lets get one thing straight. If you owned a tiger as a pet, it would eat you. It wouldn’t cuddle up to you like some cut little puppy. Tigers aren’t something that you tame. I know we all want one as a pet, but we just can’t. Its amazing Jasmine wasn’t shredded to pieces in her sleep. How very magical.

Pocahontas: Ok a lovely movie. I do really like this movie. However I just need to draw my readers attention to the fact that if Indians had someone like john smith to kill, they would just kill him. There would be no time for Pocahontas to consult ‘grandmother willow’. He would be dead, and that would be it. Oh and if you get shot in the chest, your dead. No amount of Indian remedies is going to solve that. I mean John smith seems to be invincible. And Pocahontas sure can run fast. And im pretty sure a bear would kill you if you picked up its young. John smith is amazing, the amount of times he cheats death. What a hero.

OK so only 3 movies. I decided if I kept going I would begin to get too picky. The fact is these movies we cherished as kids had things we overlooked, like the existence of magic. We overlook things like these that we think are little, to truly enjoy something. However although movies are a small thing, you know just a happy memory of childhood, when we overlook other things, more that something like the inability of animals to talk, we get serious problems. Can I say global warming? Drought? Ok so these are really really big things, however what about relationships? A friend was telling me about a couple who overlooked the little things, got married and found that they had nothing in common.
We like to believe we are in a happy land, like a Disney film, where we all live happily ever after, so we do overlook things that would destroy this, but this has serious consequences. We need to start looking now, before its too late. We can make our own fairytale, something more aware of the things around us.
Although we like living in our fairytale lands, what happens when reality comes crashing down, and we realise that all this time we’ve been living in an imaginary world, that has come from an animators pen. When it comes from ourselves, however, we control what happens and make it beautiful ourselves.
Then we can add some talking animals, a lonely princess and a prince to rescue her, copyright it and sell it to Disney. Oh, wait.