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Is this cartoon in bad taste?

Asked by Mimishu1995 (23626points) September 17th, 2021

The cartoon in question. It is a direct adaptation of a fairy tale. It’s about a woodcutter who discovers a tree that can revive the dead and uses it to help people. The cartoon is clearly aimed at children.

There are two moments in the cartoon that I find rather for lack of better word problematic. It’s not in English so I will try my best to explain the contexts.

Between 1:10 – 1:50 mark, the woodcutter sees a bunch of baby tigers playing around. The woodcutter decides to kill all the little tigers because he fears that the babies will grow up to be big tigers and cause troubles to his village. So he jumps right into the spot and attacks the tigers, in the most cartoonist way possible. The scene ends with all the tigers lying dead on the ground. Ignoring the ridiculous reasoning for a senseless murder, the way the cartoon jumps from the cartoonist fight to the graphic depiction of dead tigers really rubs me the wrong way. There is also a screenshot around the Internet showing that there was another version of this scene with blood all over the place, but I’m not sure if that was the truth.

At 12:49 mark, you can see a man holding something next to a dead woman. The man is a local bandit who is curious of how the woodcutter manages to revive people from the dead, so he has an idea to kill the wife then rips out her internal organs and throws them in a well. Yeah, the thing the man holds is her organs!

Personally I don’t know what to think of the cartoon. On one hand I can’t really fault the creators because the original fairy tale itself is chock full of questionable details. On the other hand, I expect them to be more tactful when they present the story to children. The cartoon just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

If the cartoon was in English, would you show it to children?

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