Bambi. If the shower scene in Psycho was the shocker of the sixties, and for me, it sure was, then its equivalent in the entire decade of the forties was when Bambi’s mother dies. And what about that line of dialog: “Man has entered the forest”? And the fire and the incredibly strong antiviolence implications. (The National Rifle Association would probably picket the movie today.) I know it was a cartoon, I know Thumper had one of the great scene-stealing roles, I know there was a lot of cuteness. But I left that movie changed. It had, and has, a terrifying sense of life to it, and not life as
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