I never knew how multi-layered most movies and television shows are, until I lived the freedom of no censorship with my kids. I'm excited to watch Shrek again with Hayden... we've not seen it in over a year and I know his sense of humor has drastically changed, he's more aware of innuendo, it will most likely be a whole new movie for him. I will miss his *younger* perspective as much as I look forward to this *older* one.
I remember the very first time I watched South Park with Hayden, who was about 6 at the time. Boy was *I* uncomfortable!!! It was the episode, for those who know, where the comet is coming, they're all gonna die and the two dads masturbate one another in the hot tub. I really had no idea how to deal with this explanation that surely my kid will demand of me... it never came. He didn't understand the term, moved on to what he *did* understand (a different tangent of the story, a different layer), found it funny and then didn't watch the show again for a couple of years. He watches it now and though it's a different understanding than he had at 6, he's 9 now, he's not watching it through the same filters as I am. [not to mention we've had many many talks about the guys who make South Park and their terrible public school experiences (which has tangent-ed into Bowling for Columbine) and the controversy over the Tom Cruise in the Closet episode and standing up for your principles (they threatened to pull the whole show if the episode was not re-aired - South Park vs Comedy Central vs Scientologists) which leads back to Family Guy and when they were going to be canceled and they changed Stewie's words from "laugh and cry" to "efffin cry" (check it out with closed captioning!) and the connections go on and on and on]
~diana 🙂
xoxoxoxo
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