Children's drawings can be more violent than adult movies

The end of the year is coming and the movies that air on television in the afternoon become much more aimed at children. In this universe, the odds are that we will see animations instead of movies that involve real actors. You may find that this means much more tranquility and peace for your younger siblings or children to watch without fear, but the truth is quite different.

A study published in the British Medical Journal - a scientific publication led by British doctors - shows that children's films can be much more violent than adult films. They came to this conclusion after reviewing a number of commercially available works and noted that characters important to storylines die in about two-thirds of the animations - while in adult movies this happens in half of the cases.

It has also been found that with respect to works devoted to more mature audiences, cartoons are 2.5 times more likely to have one of the protagonists die during the film - and there are still three times more likely to happen through murder. . When we mention only the parents of the protagonists, the chances of death are five times higher in the animations.

Study Objects

To conduct the study, the researchers looked at the 45 most profitable children's drawings in history - representing movies like “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937) and Frozen: A Freezing Adventure (2013) - movies were excluded where toys, cars and other objects are protagonists. Adult films followed the same standards of choice.

Another conclusion that was reached with the study concerns the false impression that we have regarding the drawings. Many imagine that cartoons are less violent alternatives and expose children to little or no traumatic situations, but the truth is that the animations also involve demonstrations of extreme violence for children of various ages.

And for those who think this is a consequence of modernity, the Daily Mail recalls that in 1937, Snow White's stepmother was killed quite violently in the Disney movie - in a lawsuit involving the antagonist being struck by lightning., falling off a cliff, being crushed by a giant rock and attracting the attention of vultures.