The most dramatizing moment in children's entertainment is the death of bamby's mother. Nicholas barber writes about culture for the economist. The thing about it, re washing it is you don't actually get to see bamby’s mother dying. It's only about 70 minutes long. And bam by's mother isn't killed until forty minutes into it.
Rights for women and girls have regressed by decades; the economy is cratering. Yet, for many rural Afghans, things are actually better than they were before America scarpered. Silicon Valley types once righteously spurned the military-industrial establishment—now they’re queuing up to fund defence startups. And the surprising truth about the most famous scene in “Bambi”, which is turning 80.
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