Sunday, July 6, 2008

Frank Rich overestimates kids

While I enjoyed Frank Rich's column today - IMHO, he's the 2nd best columnist the NYT has, only behind David Brooks - I think he's overestimating the kids at his screening of Wall-E when he says the following:
They seemed to instinctually understand what “Wall-E” was saying; they didn’t pepper their chaperones with questions along the way. At the end they clapped their small hands. What they applauded was not some banal cartoonish triumph of good over evil but a gentle, if unmistakable, summons to remake the world before time runs out.

My guess is the kids were more mesmerized by the movie's stunning visuals than by its deep moral questions. Also, most kids above the age of say, 4, know not to ask their parents questions during the movie. The mini-van ride home is a different story, however.

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