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That was wretchedly upsetting. Please tell me they all got therapy and the little boy did not remain a damaged soul. Please.
Hahaha YES! These are by far my favorite kind of shorts.
See also: ‘Each Child is Different’
Both of those shorts are almost too depressing for me to enjoy.
Well maybe I’m just a terrible person, but these old B&W shorts from the 50s that feature children in morbidly depressing scenarios just make for the best riffing. They’re so incredibly bleak and defeatist that it comes right back around to being funny.
Not for me it doesn’t. In my universe a child in pain does not qualify as entertainment.
Like the TVtrope called “Crosses the Line Twice”.
It’s also an issue of Expectation vs Reality
When I see a short titled “Fears of Children” I expected some well-meaning but awkward tripe about how kids shouldn’t be afraid of the dark, or of monsters in the closet, or how most house spiders are harmless etc.
I was *not* expecting a film noir Hitchcock-esque short chock full of parental abuse, pet abuse, and drowned teddy bears.
It’s like “Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders” all over again.
“A Child’s Fearing in Wales”