translation that GG gets: Don't let my rabbit loving innocent children watch or read this.
Thanks for sharing Seoulsearch.
I was just thinking of looking into it further for them.......
now likely won't.
Hey GG,
I'm glad the description was helpful. If you're curious, just Google Watership Down 1978 images and you'll see everything you'll need to know when deciding for your kids.
I just did and if I were still a kid, my nightmares would ensue once again.
This movie shows realistic-style animated rabbits that are violently killed, and it doesn't hold back in showing how.
I don't even feel I could post the found images to this site.
Some of the shots a 2-second Google search pulled up included the bloodied, demonic-looking enemy rabbit with bloody claws who is missing an eye, a snarling dog with bloody teeth attacking and killing the rabbits, a battered and bloody rabbit caught in a snare, and a field covered in blood as a premonition of what would happen to the rabbit warren.
As I said, the most jarring memory I have from this movie is a rabbit describing to his friends how the rest of the group became trapped underground, panicking and trying to escape, only to suffocate into a pile of dead bodies, and it graphically shows the expressions of these frantic rabbits, desperately trying to push past one another as "the air turned bad" -- which is the exact description the rabbit gives.
I didn't even have to look that part up -- it's burned into my memory. And I'm a gal who loves movies like Silence of the Lambs.
I can't remember how old I was when I saw this, but in my humble opinion, it is definitely not for any kid who doesn't want to see their favorite animals suffer and die, especially in violent ways.
The story also credits the creation of the world, and the rabbits, to a mythical god called Frith, which might be confusing to young children who know who the real God is.