It's Disney! How can this possibly happen? How can I come out of one of Disney's most celebrated films with one of the most iconic scenes in cinematic history feeling nothing?
Sometimes these things are inexplicable, but if I could say anything about this film to sum it up concisely, it would be that this is the most vanilla 'rich girl and poor boy fall in love' story as it gets. Maybe it's because it's from 1955, but some of the elements and themes of the story raised some questions for me.
This film almost feels like one of those educational films kids in the 1950s used to watch in schools about how to behave in certain situations and how to practice good values etc. This film- I could be wrong- seems to suggest that a man who does not act properly can be fixed by the right woman and reeled back in to a life of secure, domesticity- which is ideal. That is what I got from this film.
The romance didn't seem to really exist, and even the iconic images from the dinner scene wasn't able to save it. This is the first time I've seen this film, mind you, but I've always assumed that the spaghetti scene was supposed to be after the point where they confess their feelings for one another and it's supposed to be the romantic height of the film before the epilogue. Not at all the case, and apparently all it took for Lady to fall in love with Tramp was his displays of violence fighting 3 other dogs? Yes, I know he was defending her but it's simply not believable.
The film gave me nothing and felt incredibly underdeveloped and I guess that's the reason why I left it feeling so empty and disappointed. As a kid I always wanted to see this film, and now that I have, though I'm not a kid anymore, I feel like the kid inside me has been betrayed.
Sometimes these things are inexplicable, but if I could say anything about this film to sum it up concisely, it would be that this is the most vanilla 'rich girl and poor boy fall in love' story as it gets. Maybe it's because it's from 1955, but some of the elements and themes of the story raised some questions for me.
This film almost feels like one of those educational films kids in the 1950s used to watch in schools about how to behave in certain situations and how to practice good values etc. This film- I could be wrong- seems to suggest that a man who does not act properly can be fixed by the right woman and reeled back in to a life of secure, domesticity- which is ideal. That is what I got from this film.
The romance didn't seem to really exist, and even the iconic images from the dinner scene wasn't able to save it. This is the first time I've seen this film, mind you, but I've always assumed that the spaghetti scene was supposed to be after the point where they confess their feelings for one another and it's supposed to be the romantic height of the film before the epilogue. Not at all the case, and apparently all it took for Lady to fall in love with Tramp was his displays of violence fighting 3 other dogs? Yes, I know he was defending her but it's simply not believable.
The film gave me nothing and felt incredibly underdeveloped and I guess that's the reason why I left it feeling so empty and disappointed. As a kid I always wanted to see this film, and now that I have, though I'm not a kid anymore, I feel like the kid inside me has been betrayed.