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Babies- ( the film )
Am I the only one who was a bit bored by this ? I mean, yeah it was cute, and made me smile a couple times, but the most interesting part was the differences in the birth experience IMO. After that it blurred together and dragged a bit for me. Others seemed to have enjoyed it though? ...shrug
Re: Babies- ( the film )
I saw it with T in the theatre (I begged him to go with me, he took a Friday afternoon off and we went to a matinee). I was apologizing to him within the first 5 minutes. We were both bored to tears.
We do still talk about the few funny parts that we did enjoy/found particularly interesting - like the baby they tied to the bed, and his relationship with his brother. And how they brought him home from the hospital wrapped in a blanket on the back of a motorcycle! lol. I also thought their US/SF couple was pretty far from an example of mainstream US baby-raising though, which disappointed me a bit also.
EmmieB and I saw it on a diaper days when out LO's were tiny. EJ slept in the Ergo through 90% of it, but the theatre was PACKED so while if I watched it now I would want narration, then I was OK with it because the theatre was so loud there is no way I would have been able to follow the words. So it worked for me.
I thought it was cute, but a little "eh" because of lack of extra information.
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ditto.
I totally agree with this, and also think that it definitely needed narration.
...and as an aside, that song the SF parents were singing is from Music Together classes, which I took with Kyva. I cringed every time we sang that song (even before I saw Babies) because it's like a faux-Native American song where you sing "hey ya na, ho ya na, hey ya na, ho" over and over again. As far as I know the sounds don't actually mean anything, so it seemed really culturally degrading to me. But I'm probably overthinking something that's supposed to be entertaining to babies! But yeah, the contrast between US parents singing a song like that to their babies while those in other parts of the world have such authentic (for lack of a better word) experiences was kind of funny.
I really liked it but can see how it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. I went with winterorchids though so maybe it was the company that was likeable?
It felt that way to me also. There's plenty of real songs that can be used as entertainment and a teaching moment.
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