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Mega64 Movie Club: Babe: Pig in the City

🕑 Added 2021-03-30 22:03:10 +0000 UTC

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I came away feeling like Rocco and Shawn. If this was any other film I'd just think it was weird and upsetting, but because it is the SEQUEL TO THE MOVIE BABE it was a cruel betrayal. Credit to this movie though for making me laugh hysterically at the wheelchair-dog crash scene. It actually is amazing this got made.

Jessica Minster

Salo: Pig in the City

Brad Dunford

Is this the YouTube player? Cuz I can’t just listen to this and laugh at work. Unless I want the video playing and eating my battery

Keith

By far one of the top 3 Movie Club episodes!

SlavicGold

the city is a scary place

slaughterneko

One thing I get the sense it was going for was almost framing it as an old-fashioned fable of sorts (with the shocking imagery and running narration). Fables usually have the tendency to be darker which I think usually "shocks" kids into learning life lessons or making said lessons more memorable. I was definitely getting the dark vibes you guys were talking about near the beginning, but then I started to think of it as a fable like Watership Down, The Ant And The Grasshopper, stuff like that. I think the running narration gives me the sense that could have been what they were going for with it and once I watched some clips with that in mind it felt a bit less shocking to me (or maybe it just helped me anticipate the shocking moments more easily).

Gaspar Santos

Really liked this episode and I'm actually very thankful for Derrick bringing up this movie. Babe: Pig in the City was on our family's VHS rotation so I watched it as a kid and always remembered it as a classic children's movie. Got to rewatch it in preparation for this episode and I only got more chocked as I went on, like I was unblocking hidden parts of my memory. I still loved it as an adult but I guess was watching it in a different way, in a "depressing Lars Von Trier-type movie" kind of way. Thinking maybe I've been repressing memories from Pig in the City, I called my parents. I was amazed to find out that it was one of my favourite movies and that I never reacted poorly to any of the darker moments. We all had fond memories of it. That got me thinking: is the discussion of this film centered more on what adults think children should/shouldn't watch? There are plenty of fans of this movie who watched it as kids and probably don't remember it being so fucked up because it doesn't leave any significant, lasting trauma. As Derrick pointed out, the only death in this movie happens offscreen and everyone gets to live a perfect life in the farm in the end. Even though Babe and the animals go through all sorts of hardships, they all become friends and it all wraps nicely in the end. Maybe I'm reading too much into this but I don't think a child would percieve this movie as being dark. At least as much as adults do. Thank you for reading my long-ass text.