It is a fascinating thing to watch my kiddo follow the same sort of path when it comes to what she loves to watch. I watched it over and over again, not just because I loved it, but because I wanted to make myself immune to its horrors (for example, a Harpy disemboweling a still-living witch) I kept hitting rewind, kept watching it again once the VHS tape had spooled back to the start. Sad moody songs as sung by the band America, Mia Farrow at her Mia-Farrow-est, stunning Japanese animation and the story of the last unicorn on Earth desperately searching for others like her? Sign me and every other kid my age up!īut as much as I loved the movie (and still love it), a huge part of what I found so compelling about the story and the world in which it took place was just how badly it terrified me. When I was a kid way back in the 1980s, I was obsessed with The Last Unicorn. Her developing relationship to this new movie reminded me very much of my own first experience with a scary favorite movie. While my partner looked on seemingly baffled as our tyke wailed throughout her insisted upon a second viewing (“why is the dragon alonnnnnne! Why? Is Raya gonna be okay? Where is her daddy? Will it get better soon?”) I felt nothing other than a great well of empathy. That goes double when it comes to how kids perceive their favorite movies. The buildings of our childhood when revisited as adults can seem miniature when compared with the terrifying scope in which a child sees the world.
When you are small, everything seems huge and vaguely ominous. Here’s why you should watch it with your little one and why, for this parent, the movie feels like this generation’s version of The Last Unicorn. Raya has recently moved from Disney+ premium access status, which means you no longer have to pony up $29.00 bucks for it.
She watched the whole thing wide-eyed and trembling, hiding in my shoulder innumerable times - and when it was over? She asked if we could watch it again right away.
This is connected to why my partner and I couldn’t wait to introduce her to Disney’s latest animated feature, Raya and the Last Dragon. My 3-year-old is scared of most things – and that includes the movies she deeply loves.
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