I just watched hook and it brought back my entire childhood in two hours. Watching Robin Williams realize what it meant to be a kid and respect this aspect of his own children brought back exactly what kind of adult I wanted to be as a child. I wanted to be a classy city man who still enjoyed being playful. I wanted to love my children and raise them to see the world as a series of potential outcomes rather than a monotonous cycle of birth, work, and death.
Compare that to the feeling I got from Finding Neverland. After that movie, I thought about the fragility of life and childhood. I wanted to help my children grow into fully productive, happy, stable adults. I guess the latter is the correct one. We can’t stay children forever. The point of playing and pretending is to learn how to properly be an adult in a safe and consequence free environment.
Thoughts?
