The lion king is one of my favorite childhood movies, so based solely on that fact I have a bias against anyone who would write a bad review about the movie. In the first paragraph or so the author takes one of my favorite scenes in the movie and draws a radical conclusion that the circle of life is some sick symbolism. Then she compares inner city America to a hyena, which is ridiculous, the movie is merely portraying the animal as it really is, a scavenger that lives in a pack. There is no ghetto and Whoppie Goldberg is the farthest thing from an inner city black person you can get. If it were a true representation of the ghetto it would include some sort of animal drug abuse and I didn’t see any hyena blowing lines or shooting up. They were just the villains of the movie who live in a scary place. The author then claims that her boys were deeply affected by the story and implied that the movie scared them for life. How ridiculous, it is merely a suspenseful Disney drama. This is an essay written by a bored and bitter housewife. I love the lion king and even if it has all these elements in it, a gay villain, a ghetto cast, and an oppressed population, what is wrong with exposing kids to the real world where there are good, evil and gay people.
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