![]() ![]() When I watch the film these days, my face is frozen into something like Zazu’s look of displeasure when he’s forced to sing Lovely Bunch of Coconuts crying doesn’t feel natural. Logically, the film shouldn’t affect me, especially not when I know everything that’s going to happen, but emotions don’t work that way: sometimes simple hits hardest. I have no connection to the world of The Lion King because if I think about it, really think about it, it makes no sense. It’s a patriarchal, “good” strength over “evil” ambition rule that you’d expect from a children’s movie set in the animal kingdom. Lions dominate their world they have free rein to kill and eat their subjects when hungry, because of “the circle of life”. ![]() From an adult perspective, the world of The Lion King is an authoritarian nightmare. ![]()
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