>>109769904Pinocchio is an educational tale about castinf off the strings that control you and finally becoming your own man, a real boy. Pinocchio confronts peer pressure, alcoholism, and a series of abusers who seek to manipulate and denigrate him for their own satisfaction. It is a bildingsroman designed to provide children with a framework through which they may eventually become men, free from alcoholism or abuse. The scariness is critical and real, the transformation into a donkey while crying for the mother, only to be enslaved and even killed, specifically draws from the helplessness of inebriation. It is not a fucking random spook they threw in to abuse children, it is a cautionary moment meant to invoke fear of substance abuse without having to learn the hard way. Its great and better for kids than a lot of stuff
