On Friday, February 7, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Joel Fenton wrote:   
   > With the imminent release of the movie version of Bambi by Walt Disney   
   > Co., I have heard a few people make the assertion that some large number   
   > of children have been emotionally and/or psychologically affected by the   
   > scenes in which Bambi's mother dies.  Does anyone know of any hard   
   > evidence to support this fact?   
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   > Joel Fenton   
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   As a youngster I was always deeply traumatized by any scenes of death or   
   serious injury in children's movies; I would often have nightmares about stuff   
   like this.  A reason it affected me so much was that I was completely "laid   
   open" emotionally while    
   watching movies, eagerly and trustingly assuming that the films would be clean   
   and joyfully-entertaining, and so whenever anything violent or harsh like this   
   happened in the story, it would always "strike hard and deep" into my soul.    
   (More than once    
   during film-showings in school, a student would start crying and want to leave   
   the theater because of a scary/upsetting scene; sometimes even an older   
   student than myself)  I don't think children's movies should contain negative   
   or scary stuff like this.    
    It needlessly upsets children during their tender years.   
      
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