Christ on a bike, I’ve had way more personal insults on this than were deserved, I think!
By the way, I didn’t run away, I am just in a different time zone.
My objection was to sexualising what I thought (perhaps incorrectly) was a children’s Christmas film, given that it was a prequel (yes, thank you, I’m well aware there was no book) to a series written for children. Not unreasonable to assume the prequel would also be for children but apparently not.
I am absolutely not homophobic, and I don’t own any pearls to clutch, my objection was to pushing sex (gay, straight, bi or any other kind) onto kids when they are too young to understand. Let kids just, you know, be kids, and watch a magical film without adults (of any sex) pawing over each other.
There was no reason for any of the sex bits - as I said, the Chocolatiers could have just been evil and done an amazing hip hop, jazz, amusing folk or street dance or literally any other kind of dance number other than burlesque - although apparently I misunderstood and it wasn’t sexual, just “posh”.
The money obsessed workhouse people could have been distracted with a hundred things other than trying to shag each other - what about a newly (fake) discovered treasure map showing gold in the basement, so they dig and get trapped for a bit (or shut in forever, it is Roald Dahl after all!) or a royal family they have to pursue outside of the workhouse - Wonka managed to magic up a whole shop full of chocolate on no ingredients whatsoever, so that should have been a doddle!
My objection is absolutely not to sex itself, gay or straight - it’s putting sex in a kid’s film. But I have been told this was not a kid’s film, so I will take my imaginary pearls and cat’s bum mouth (thanks for that) and keep my opinions to myself (while keeping my eight year old away from people who think he “needs to know this”.) Yes, he does, but not yet.
I tell him that a man can marry another man and that he may want to some day, depends on how he grows up. He laughs and says “but that can’t work, mummy!” He has no real concept of sex, or sexual attraction - so this being put in a film is utterly irrelevant for children. It does not “educate” - I would say it just confuses and can be damaging. I am concerned that children are getting too much, too young, and are pushed into being sexual before they are ready - especially girls. But hey! Apparently I am complaining about “woke” even though I never even mentioned the term. Ho hum.