The Lion King is a movie that many kids love and still watch many of times. It’s about a young lion prince that is born in Africa, thus making his uncle Scar the second in line to the throne. Scar plots with the hyenas to kill King Mufasa and Prince Simba, thus making himself King. The King is killed and Simba is led to believe by Scar that it was his fault, and so he flees the kingdom in shame. After years of exile he is persuaded to return home to overthrow the usurper and claim the kingdom as his own thus completing the "Circle of Life". It does not seem like such a bad little plot for kids but after further and more analytical review it seems it is a little bit too much.
The major argument made in this movie is primarily about guilt and redemption. It’s also about how a young person faces the responsibilities of an adult as they grow older and that they need to confront guilt and its associated fear. The scenery and the music that go along with this movie add even more to this major argument. When Simba is being convinced by his uncle Scar that he killed his father the scene is very dark and the music sounded very tragic. Then the sound went very loud and fast when the hyenas chase
d off Simba to another land which just added to the guilt and fear. This scene showed little kids that when you have a problem that you need to run away from it and not face it right away. This is a bad lesson to teach kids because if there is a problem it needs to be addressed right away.
This movie is more for adults because of the way it reveals life in such reality. I do not believe kids should be subject to such horrible realities because they will be afraid to grow up. There are people that say that kids are not old enough to learn anything from these movies and just care about the characters and the happy ending which this movie has with Simba coming back and taking over the kingdom. However, kids will have a mark of some sort from this movie either be it a small mark or a big mark left of fear and/or a way to handle problems. The themes in this movie are definitely for adults which is the way to get the adults to the theatre but is based as a cartoon and with animals as characters which gets the adults to take their kids. It is all about Disney making their money and not caring what type of horror our kids are seeing these days. The Lion King certainly was true of this because it was one of Disney’s biggest moneymakers.
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