And May the Worst Man Win

In the car on the way home tonight, Daniel reflected on the gross bias toward "good guys" among filmmakers targeting five-year-olds in our twisted culture:

"Sometimes in the movies, I want to see the bad guys win and the good guys lose, but it's always the bad guy loses and the good guy wins. I hate it."

I believe that Daniel was representing his true feelings. I decided not to tell him about Tarantino and Scorsese and other heroes of the American cinema who have worked to "even the playing field" between good guys and bad guys; Amy would probably try to stop us from watching all the bad-guy movies, invoking some kind of "concern" for their "young minds." It's all the more tragic, because if we could order some bad-guy films, our Netflix queue wouldn't be so badly gummed up with all of Amy's silly Bollywood drivel.

Tonight I put on Bambi for them. Daniel was particularly looking forward to the arrival of the hunter, according to Ian, who said something like "Daniel said he's not waiting for it, but I don't believe it." I haven't introduced him to "Godzilla Meets Bambi" yet - a sort of Hegelian synthesis of Amy movies and Daniel movies. I don't think Amy would sign off on that one, either...

(March 29, 2011)