✋ Another victim of television station deciding to screen film in a kids' schedule. 😱
Parents, please don't show this to kids! It's for teenagers and adults, it's not a kids' story!
p.s. Astonished to find that critics at the time apparently all dismissed concerns about the film version's effect on small children:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(film)#Effects_on_children_and_BBFC_classification
...the critics really dropped the ball on this one! 😬
Interesting to hear the classification board saying "Animation removes the realistic gory horror", as if an animation simply is not capable of being traumatising.
Maybe a generational thing where adults had only ever seen deliberately unrealistic cartoons like Tom & Jerry, and had trouble taking any animation seriously? Whereas children were taking it very seriously without the adults realising?
Deborah Pickett
FediThing 
