Ponyo - Page 2

[Minarai]

Originally Posted by caudex

I guess I don't understand the eye roll. For the target audience (children probably from 3-10?) that was a pretty accurate and easily understandable explanation. Mom eats, she makes milk, she feeds the baby. That might even be more exposure than many adults get!

I think that even if they were open to the idea, a detailed and anatomically correct lecture on the matter doesn't fit in the movie. This was sweet, matter-of-fact, and snuck in a little information. How would you change it?

Thanks for reporting back everyone! I'm so glad that it made it in!

I wouldn't change it.
My point was I was surprised that Disney, a company known for pushing old-fashioned cultural ideals on people, would allow even the most subtle mention of breastfeeding, an act that quickly became taboo in our society during and after World War II and has stayed that way ever since.

[sapphire_chan]

Originally Posted by tankgirl73

Well that's all well and good about the mom's milk bit. But in Kiki's Delivery Service there's a scene where Asono runs out of the bakery with a pacifier left by a customer, "oh no, that lady forgot her baby's pacifier, now the baby will wake up and cry all the way home." Said lady and baby were then found by Kiki, baby crying it up in the stroller while mom calmy walks along pushing it.

Yeah that scene made me , but I figured it was mocking western culture.