At the weekend we celebrated Rory’s 6th birthday.
We went to the movies to see this:-
I thought it would be more ‘zoo’ based rather than the story behind WHY the family bought the zoo. And being PG I didn’t think it would contain ‘bullshit’, ‘shit’ etc so much. I could hear the little 5 and 6 year olds wince when the words were said. I heard myself think, “Oh FUCK!”. Oh and some of the kids’ parents stayed to watch the movie too and see me squirm. Anyhow – it’s a good movie and Matt damon is, as always, quite gorgeous.
This morning on the drive to school, Rory was telling Mac about the movie and what had happened. How the mom had died and left the kids with their dad.
At one stage in the movie there are flashbacks to life when the mom was still alive.
Rory: “But then she wasn’t really dead at all – she came back and was dancing with the kids but not the animals at the zoo. So they had moved and everything for nothing. She was born again. And I think the whole time the dad was just kidding.”
Not sure this is quite the flashback scene the studios were aiming for but I loved the innocence of it all…..
‘Bullshit’ – in a PG?? InAPPROPRIATE, as that whatsisface in Ally McBeal would say.