![]() Part of me regrets that it doesn't hold up quite as well in 2013 as it did in the early-1990s, but the rest of me can take comfort in the moments that make it a nice little charmer. ![]() ![]() Lady and the Tramp, on the other hand, is one of the first films I can remember seeing, both in my home and in the cinema. ![]() I brought up this line of argument in my review of the fourth Indiana Jones film, since that series did not really impact me until I was a teenager by then I already liked adventure stories, and they merely helped to cement this love. Of course, it's very easy for me to say all this when I'm referring to things which did not affect me personally. But we mustn't let ourselves be governed by a rose-tinted view of the past it is a dangerous blinker on the critical mind, and most attempts to recapture said past result in failure. We shouldn't deliberately disown the films, TV shows and other cultural icons of our youth they played a crucial part in making us who are we, for better or worse, and in some way they continue to shape our cultural choices as adults. One of the big steps we take in becoming adults is learning to accommodate our nostalgia for the things we loved as a child. ![]()
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