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Comment on You Should Show Grave of the Fireflies to Your Kids
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks agoNo, you shouldn’t traumatize your KID, so anything below 14, its absolutely ok to show the movie to a young adult or teenager. A kid does understand what suffering is, but doesn’t understand the difference between fiction and reality very good.
Thats the same argument as with German fairytales, they aren’t made for kids, they are for teenagers and above.
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Even though it’s a fictional, animated depiction of what happened near the end of the WW2 it’s depicting something that actually happened. I don’t think there’s going to be any problems in regards to separating fiction from reality with this movie.
If anything, the movie is tame in comparison to the actual, real-world devastation of nuclear war.
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Grave of the Fireflies isn’t about the nukes its about the firebombings and the part with fiction vs reality means that they don’t understand that this was a long time ago. As said its appropriate for 12+ in my opinion. But below its just not.
literalgrill@sakurajima.moe 3 weeks ago
@YourPrivatHater @riskable Over 100,000 WWII vets are still alive, today. People are being bombed right now, shelled right now, having white phosphorus dropped on them, right now.
None of this is a "long time ago." It is within living memory.
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
And? Are we now shifting the argument onto a strawman over the definition of long time?
It was a average lifetime ago. And the other claims are irrelevant in that context. Its not changing the fact that grave of the Fireflies isn’t appropriate for small children.
piccolo@ani.social 3 weeks ago
What about The Land Before Time??
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Waaay less graphic, different implications, not a human character and different story circumstances. You could name Bambi while you are at it.
piccolo@ani.social 3 weeks ago
but doesn’t understand the difference between fiction and reality very good.
makes that argument fall a part doesn’t it?
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
No it doesn’t. Thats the part with human characters.
LiteralGrill@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Ahem… The film is rated…
You’d know that if you read the post! Funnily enough, it also links out to an neat article discussing a study showing parents aren’t reading scary stories to their kids… And why that’s bad. Here it is just in case ya need it! Heck, on other bits of social media, I heard about schools showing kids the movie in 5th to 6th grade, in the US even!
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Just because a rating agency says something doesn’t mean its appropriate, they have strict guidelines, these guidelines revolve around obscenitys, violence, drugs and similar, they don’t go on “may not be appropriate for children because the story itself is dark and sad” 12+ would be a ok rating in my opinion, again, its not meant for children, German fairytales aren’t either, even though they are classified differently.
Kids below a certain age cant even comprehend the story.
riskable@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Woah there! German fairy tales were meant for children! That’s explicitly their target audience.
The whole point was to scare the children into behaving a certain way. Like, “don’t go wandering off alone. Bad things can happen!”
If you just tell your kid that they won’t listen. However, if you tell them a story about how kids that wandered off alone into a forest got cooked eaten by a witch then maybe they’ll stick to the village (and be wary of strangers).
YourPrivatHater@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Nope, the Grimm fairytales where explicitly for “adults” so about 16 years old at the time. They have very graphics Sex scenes, brutal murders and more.
Struwwelpeter is aimed towards 8 to 12 year olds as they have a more educational purpose. (wich is probably what you are talking about)
I think they issue is different definitions of kid.