Forrest Gump and Mrs Doutbfire come to mind, what are yours?
I feel like there are movies where you just get more of it when older but I’m trying to think of a movie that when viewed through a lense of an adult instead of a kid makes it a sadder story.
A Goofy Movie.
Top of the list. You have 2 main characters to follow and it’s absolutely different based on your age.
Also Breakfast club.
That nineties film about a prostitute sucking dick in the harbour. She has the biggest sexiest mouth. Then some rich guy has car trouble and she helps him but like weasles herself into him giving her lots of money in the form of expensive gifts and even proposing to her.
The name is like Sexy Girl or something and people said it was like soo romantic and it was a big hit back then. Pretty woman.
The lion king.
Idk i think that scene still fucked kid me up a little lol
The Dark Crystal is basically a Henson muppet movie about genocide.
cars 2. the entire plot revolves around a genetically inferior underclass working in the shadows to kill off the “normals” using additives in the food they eat, capturing and torturing people just to test their poisons.
Starship troopers.
I saw it when it came out. I was young and the action was awesome.
Watching at an adult… The fascist themes are so obvious, I wonder how young me missed them.
It’s satire
Whats even more amazing is that adults today are still missing the obvious.
to be fair starship troopers is overrated as fuck.
it just looks like a straight up fascist film with a thin veneer of irony, instead of satire
El Dorado. Couple dudes find the city of gold and get mistaken for their main deities, which quickly puts them in conflict with the local religious leader who up until that point and even for a few days after had been terrorizing his people with human sacrifices in their name, stoking and leveraging that fear to maintain authority over the city as the “speaker for the gods”. The two “gods” are liars and crooks, and like the religious leader are also using their newfound religious authority for personal gain, but they don’t want to hurt anybody, and Miguel in particular had really fallen in love with the city and it’s people and culture. That puts the “gods” in a really interesting moral dilemma where they needed to choose between rebuking the zealous religious leader who keeps trying to perform human sacrifices and rule in their name, and “lying low” for the best chance of getting out of the city alive themselves with a shit-ton of gold. They go with the former, and the people are stoked to see the religious leader they feared knocked down a peg by his own gods, including the chill, secular-coded chief (who is aware that the “gods” are full of shit, but likes them anyway). Of course that’s not the end of the movie, but there’s a whole lot of interesting commentary on the relationship between religion, terror, and authority that I didn’t really catch until I was in my late teens.
Really good choice. There is also the interesting fact that nature does bend for them and the whirlpool for donations actually spits the religious zealot leader out a side path as if rejected by his own gods for using their name and power for control instead of to protect the citizens which is the point of the hidden city in the first place.
There is a lot of complex relationships in that movie that are more incredible to witness when you can look at them them through a more lived lens.
Not a rewatch, but I recently watched Frozen (2013). I’d heard the songs already (who hasn’t?), but knew nothing of the plot. Boy, the themes of depression, anxiety, and PTSD were a lot more intense than I was expecting from a family-friendly Disney animated film.
Spoiler
After the accident, the trolls tell Elsa that “fear will be her enemy”… and then they scare her to the point that she withdraws from society and even her own family for over a decade out of fear of hurting them. The trolls also wipe Anna’s memory, so she has no idea why Elsa is suddenly ignoring her. It’s actually quite miraculous that the sisters turned out as well-adjusted as they did.
Haha I think about the well-adjusted part all the time. Definitely hand-waviness on the part of Disney for that one!
Definitely hand-waviness on the part of Disney for that one!
Spoiler
Well, the queen does go AWOL mere hours after her coronation, and the next-in-line almost marries away the kingdom, so… they weren’t entirely well-adjusted :)
