Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by halfnote (A) on December 19, 2005 at 17:38:03

In Reply to: P.S._ Not sure how these notions would apply to....... posted by AudioHead on December 19, 2005 at 05:28:14:

AH, I don't know how to distinguish them, and I would say they apply to both equally. I know when a children's tale is a children's tale, and I know when an adult tale is an adult take -- but there is a continuum between the two that makes any certain line of demarcation impossible. It is true, that children's tales generally involve children dealing with childhood's problems, and adult films with adults dealing with the problems of maturity. But it is also true that we remain children until the end, and that childhood's problems simply masquerade themsleves in the day to day preoccupations of so-called adults.

If an adult finds a "children's" tale involving and though-provoking and truth-revealing, is it a children's tale? On the other hand, an adult film is clearly identifiable when children find it alien and boring, when they don't have enough experience to relate to it. So an adult shares the child's experience, but the child cannot always relate to the adults. Apart from this, I don't think there's any simply way to distinguish to two poles.