I let the kids watch Bambi when I was at my parents' in April. David was too freaked out to watch all of it. He came upstairs part way through and didn't want to watch anymore of it.
Jacob, on the other hand, was mesmerized. I'm not sure how much he picked up of the film but he did say, repeatedly, in the days that followed "Bambi mom died. Sad".
And, still today, 2 months after viewing it, says "Bambi" every time we pass a section of trees.
Friday, June 18, 2010
the power of story
After reading Pippi, we watched the 1974 film version.
It looks 1974'ish - the camera angles, the special effects, the fact that the film was dubbed in English...
And yet, the power of the story came through.
When Pippi was saying good-bye to Tommy and Annika, I looked over at Claire who was sitting beside me on the couch. I noticed that she was crying. "I don't want her to leave her friends" she said tearfully. "But I want her to be with her dad".
These moments are beautiful to me - they are when the Truth in a story comes out and speaks to our own sense of Truth of what is right and wrong in the world, of what could or should be. Pippi is fictional but what the story says about friendship, about fun, about wonder is Truth.
It looks 1974'ish - the camera angles, the special effects, the fact that the film was dubbed in English...
And yet, the power of the story came through.
When Pippi was saying good-bye to Tommy and Annika, I looked over at Claire who was sitting beside me on the couch. I noticed that she was crying. "I don't want her to leave her friends" she said tearfully. "But I want her to be with her dad".
These moments are beautiful to me - they are when the Truth in a story comes out and speaks to our own sense of Truth of what is right and wrong in the world, of what could or should be. Pippi is fictional but what the story says about friendship, about fun, about wonder is Truth.
David's imagination
It seems that David is developing quite the imagination lately.
"I have a button that I can push and then my eyes pop out" he told Claire the other day.
The ever practical older sister asked him if she could see it.
His reply? "I can only use the button at night." He then elaborated on his idea (probably because he noticed that he had garnered quite the audience. "I can also push a button and pop my head out. All my body parts. And then I go down on a waterslide..."
David's competitive nature is also coming through more and more these days.
"I'm smarter than you" he told our 8 year old neighbor friend Angela.
"You are?" she challenged "What's 30 + 2?"
"I know it. But I can only say it when I'm sleeping"
"I have a button that I can push and then my eyes pop out" he told Claire the other day.
The ever practical older sister asked him if she could see it.
His reply? "I can only use the button at night." He then elaborated on his idea (probably because he noticed that he had garnered quite the audience. "I can also push a button and pop my head out. All my body parts. And then I go down on a waterslide..."
David's competitive nature is also coming through more and more these days.
"I'm smarter than you" he told our 8 year old neighbor friend Angela.
"You are?" she challenged "What's 30 + 2?"
"I know it. But I can only say it when I'm sleeping"
"I'm being God"
Not sure where he came up with this but Jacob was parading around our house this morning with a blanket wrapped around him.
"I'm being God" he said.
"I'm being God" he said.
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