When I was little I remember being so upset with Toaster for leaving that flower that was so lonely. "Why did Toaster do that?!" I would think, angrily. As an adult, I see that Toaster was very broken up about it and was just trying to hide and not get overwhelmed by all the animals.
Okay- literally came here to comment this. The labs before time was the first movie that ever made me cry when i was little - and for brave little toaster, i remember being so sad after watching it, but not fully understanding why. But it was a deep sadness that left an imprint. Same with Dumbo. Ugh 😩
My wife put this on the other day cause Disney Plus finally grew a pair and put it on. She didn't grow up with it and was shocked this was a childhood favorite of mine. The air conditioner at the beginning has always been what almost makes me stop watching lol he's not stuck in a wall, HE CAN LEAVE WHENEVER HE WANTS TOOOOO!!!!
Worthless showed that humans will discard any old thing if it stops working. The song before that, Cutting Edge, is similar in premise, that old appliances will be replaced by new ones, but really sings about consumerism. MORE MORE MORE!
Same. Brave little toaster, the land before time, and all dogs go to heaven were some of my favorite movies; I think I related to all the sadness and despair the characters portrayed.
I know!!! Toaster couldn't hang out for just a second at least? Or maybe going to get another flower for it would of helped the loneliness. Ugh, I don't know though, I guess that would be a dead body for the flower.
I thought the flower was more of a Narcissus reference. Beautiful and tragic.
It didn't like the toaster for who the toaster was, it liked it because of what it projected onto the toaster, which was basically itself. It was too caught up in its own reflection to see that the toaster was actually feeling pretty uncomfortable from it. When the toaster left, it lost its source of external validation so it withered, but toaster isn't responsible for how flower used it, and staying would have meant supporting flower even as flower was oblivious toaster's actual self and needs.
Ok now watch Land before time and all dogs go to heaven with me so you can explain shit that makes me sad as logical behaviors with psychological basis as it's explanation. Loved this.
Idk why cartoons back then would just throw in a heart wrenching moment for no real reason. But I guess it is important for kids to feel and process those feelings though. I'm still traumatized from both Old Yeller and Where The Red Fern Grows
The younger animators at the time were pushing for more intense emotions and more complex stories at a time when cartoons were strictly limited to being child friendly. The Brave Little Toaster were made by former Disney artists who became frustrated with how oppressive Disney’s films had become by that point.
Wow really?! Looking back I can totally see it in this film. Seems like it was either this or they secretly put in dicks on the cover of Little mermaid stuff.
When I was little that was my first experience with depression and I didn’t know what it was, I was like 7 and my chest would ache everytime that part played. Like I had a hole inside me.
That being said I still watch that movie once every month or two and I love it.
There are two sequels that aren’t as good but I love them, brave little toaster to the rescue and brave little toaster goes to Mars.
Also based off a book and the author wrote a second book for goes to mars. I love the book but he writes really strangely
A woman once grabbed me on the street as a child thinking I was her long dead son. I was, reasonably, freaked out and unnerved. Both reactions I feel are fair.
The audience are the brave ones if you ask me. Get ready to have an emotional attachment to every inanimate object you encounter. Good luck throwing anything away without just the slightest to be of guilt.
i have such a vivid memory of telling my mom that that flower was gonna die now because it’s petal fell and in my child brain i thought “well now all the petals are gonna fall and the flowers gonna be dead. it’s gonna die from sadness.” lol definitely gave little me one of my first experiences with soft dread.
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