When Your Child “HAS to See” the Minecraft Movie— and You Would Rather Drink Acid Instead
The expression “You have to choose your battles” is on my mind now. But it seems like every Friday there is a new thing or a movie that the beautiful child “just needs” has or is seen. In fact, parents fall for each other and every whim of our children, most of us are in a poor house. (And yes, I know there is no such place, but since the lockdown it is more of a strong reality than it is a metaphor for most).
As a parent we are all called on the task of sacrificing sleep, time and money-even at the expense of our own wardrobe-for the needs and caprarances of our children. We live with our children and we find that they will be ahead of the minute they come into our lives. This is an easy process for those of us that only a few weeks celebrate our last release with friends, our last hooray on our days without children.
One thing I wasn't fully prepared for the amount of marketing that Soley directed to children. Marketing experts are smart to drachet this particular sector because it is always directed at parents, by using the child as a knowledge transmitter: “Dad, have you heard that the latest sonic movie is gone! We need to see it.” Notice how he puts “us” in the sentence. And earlier today, he told me, “Dad, remember that movie you want to see?” “Which, my dear?” I asked her. “Minecraft“He responded without bathing. And what skin was behind me if he had to believe that I was angry too Minecraft!?
But it is. I'd rather be waterboarded while doing to listen to Reo Speedwagon over and over again!
As parents, we hope to sacrifice and laugh at it later. But what will be available for my son from a film which is only about the placement of the product and revival of a V2.0 in Minecraft
All of this reminds me of the first stage of the great series, The studio, Where our opponent, Matt Remick (played by Seth Rogan), was suddenly promoted to the head of a studio. A cinema enthusiast and a believers in the narrative, Remick found himself in a pickled where he was administered by a project that threatened his shame (or of Continental Studios): he was asked to make “a Kool-Aid” movie. Want to pursue his love in Auteur Cinema, Remick Bristles in the idea of a product of putting a product about Kool-Aid. Then through sheer unity, he stumbled upon Martin Scorsese with a project that he wanted a studio that developed that involved Kool-Aid (tangentially).
Wanting to meet the demands of his boss and his own ambition to create Auteur Cinema, Remick jumped at the opportunity and accepting the Scorsese project in Bat. Eventually only when Remick tells the story to his team that Kool-Aid plans scorsese is not like Barbienor is it lightweight and fun: this is the story of Jim Jones. This is an amazing -biting Hollywood criticism and even funny than critical.
But here I am with my ten -year -old son I want to pursue capitalism for the sake of his desire to tell his wives at school, “I saw it too.” Do I persuade the plasticity of media messages that are in the brain and soul what is white flour in the body? Or I keep the ferris wheel of capitalist choices. And there will be another next week, and the week after.
Attitudes to the commodifacton of childhood and family life. Where is Thoreau?
