"I think we should shoot her"
What type of dad say this about her daughter? Even if it was meant as a joke and she was a pain in the ass?
shareThe kind of dad who's a poor excuse for a parent, who favors one child over the other.
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MovieChat Forums > Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) Discussion > "I think we should shoot her"
Always hated that line.
shareI saw it much differently
Jeannie had all but ruined her mom's day.. and instead of consoling her, the dad dropped a sarcastic-laden "we should shoot her".. that line had nothing to do with his daughter.. he was taking an unsympathetic jab at his wife
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Never thought about it that way.
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Many people make jokes or say things they don't mean. Many people will say, I could've killed you for that! Or words to that effect. It's called a sense of humor and being human
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Some parents (in my opinion the best ones) have a sense of humour, other parents are fartnuggets and their children are poor excuses for people who whine and cry over lines in movies. Like they are little fluffy bears with little fluffy brains.
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That's a really deep way of looking at black humour to the point it's not even funny but hostile.
shareI think the dad's line was hilarious, especially the way he delivered it. I mean, obviously it's such a ridiculously outlandish reply to his wife, of course it's funny. OP probably also took offense when Julia Roberts tells her mother in Steel Magnolias that she should have drowned her brothers at birth.
shareIf your father/mother said that about you, would you be laughing?
shareOh, I see. You take life too seriously as well.
I laugh at jokes. The line in the movie was obviously a joke. And I laugh when someone says something to me I know is totally not serious. People have said things to me in complete seriousness that were not the least funny to me and I happen to know the difference between that and something ludicrously farfetched. I guess it should also be noted that I do in fact have a dark sense of humor and obviously John Hughes did too.
I think it's bad parenting to even jokingly talk about murdering your children. It may seem funny or harmless on the surface, but it WILL cause psychological trauma and deep wounds sub-consciously.
A parent has too much influence on their children's emotional development to be able to do this kind of thing harmlessly until the child is emotionally mature (i.e. 'adult').
Oh, please.
My dad used to make jokes like this about my siblings and myself all the time. He also joked about selling us, cooking and eating us ("I love kids, especially with steak sauce!" - usually a response to a smartass remark from one of us) and abandoning us somewhere remote and isolated if we didn't shut up. His hyperbolic complaints whenever we asked him for pocket money were a standing family joke: "All my life I give you nothing, and still you want more?!"
We never took it seriously and we never believed for a single second that he didn't love us. Indeed, far from being psychologically or emotionally damaged, I've inherited his dark and cynical sense of humor, gleefully deploying it on a regular basis when I was younger, often getting myself into trouble with whatever so-called authority figure I was talking to (my humor always punches upwards, and I'll still frequently say the "wrong" thing to the wrong person for the sheer hell of it).
It's called "fun". Try it sometime. You'll find it liberating.
Imagine living in an era where people have been made so stupid they don't understand this.
shareWhen my cousins and I would be fucking around at family gatherings, my aunt would say "If you don't stop that, I'm going to rip one of your arms off and beat you all with the wet end." OMG WHAT AN EVIL HATEFUL PARENT
shareJust a weird joke
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