None of the kids have parents.
If they do, the parents are evil, and if the parents are not evil, they get killed.
Im not saying anything about it other than it's weird....
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None of the kids have parents.
If they do, the parents are evil, and if the parents are not evil, they get killed.
Im not saying anything about it other than it's weird....
Movies are supposed to connect the viewer to the emotions that the main character is feeling. Disney's audience are kids whose strongest connections are to their parents. I dont know how healthy or unhealthy it is to invoke that type of emotional reaction in a child but i understand why they kill off the parents.
Narratively, it also allows the kid to have off-the-wall adventures without having the parents say "absolutely not!"
You could argue this about every major fairy tale as well. While I agree that DIsney is shady as f*ck, this seems more like a common storytelling trope that goes back to the middle ages than a social engineering message.