Dances kiss scene

Unless you're 12 years old, you shouldn't be jealous of him. That's a child he's kissing.

Can't stop the signal.

I have to agree. Obviously--with the amount of discussion it's been getting--that that scene made me and many other people a bit uncomfortable... for whatever reasons you wanna use.

OMG he's drinking beer and smoking a pipe!! She stabbed someone with scissors!!

meh, whatever... nobody cares about that. Kids can watch that with their parents and parents can watch that with their kids, and it's all fine, but then you get to the dancing scene and the french kissing and they couldn't just leave it there, cuz that was still alright, we got the point.
But nope, they just had to push that boundary, and for what? Story telling? Art? Irony? A strange sense of prepubesent nostalgia? To make us question our own feelings? To stir the PC pot? Some metaphoric statement about survival instincts? It just seemed so... unecessary.

I just watched Fantastic Mr. Fox for the hundredth time and couldn't help but think if Wes Anderson really wanted to express a certain story idea concerning childhood sexuality then why not throw it in a film style like this which uses fake animals instead of real living actors?

Hmm, and I suppose that if there was a reason for me to personally feel jealous of Jared, it would only be because I was so CLUELESS at his age about anything to do with sex. My friends all talked about it, but it didn't mean anything to me at 12, or even 13, or 14. Jared was WAY ahead of the curve!


-"But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen..."

Conservative people are uncomfortable at this because it's unusual to see it in a film. But it's perfectly normal in real life at that age.