How 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' is Somehow Profound
Opinion by Ethan Irish
The corporate authorship rights of the great children's story, originally written by A. A. Milne in 1926, have run out and what does the film industry do? Of course, they turn it into a horror story. With the first trailer of the nightmare coming out this past week, is the message it sends somehow actually (and more than likely accidentally) profound?
As we grow up, especially through our young adult years, we continuously try to fight to keep our childhood and our innocence which is getting taken away. We don't want to have the responsibility that the term "adulthood" brings which makes us angry just like everyone else and ultimately we get over our childhood memories. Those memories still are there but we accept that it is not possible to relive them.
The main plot of this new movie involves a twisted version of the beloved characters Winnie the Pooh and Piglet who were abandoned by their friend Christopher Robin. When Robin meets with them again turns out they have murdered Eeyore, another member of this group of friends. Robin tries to find out what is going on in the 100 Acre Wood and it looks like he, along with his girlfriend, gets murdered. Then another group of young adults come in and I am going to assume they will also get murdered. On the surface, obviously this plot is dumb and not meant to be thought about deeply but I'm going to anyways.
What this trailer indirectly showed me is that the childhood we knew as fun and playful is just not the not that way anymore. We can't go back to it as Christopher Robin did. Obviously, the 'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' version of my overthinking is way more graphic and a lot less interesting to think about, but the principle is still there. When we get older it is not a good idea to try to be a kid again, that is what kids do, it is time for us to grow up and take responsibility for our own lives and let our memories be memories. They were good memories not because they lasted but only because they ended. The past can also be a dark place and getting back into those past experiences may be, in this case literally, traumatizing. Also, trying to be a child as an adult? Do what you want, but that is not something we as a society need to do, we need to move forward. To speak bluntly, we need to grow up. We also need to leave the terrible version of this story behind.
Of course, I am looking way too far into it because there is about a 99.9% chance it is just about Winnie the Pooh and Piglet murdering people, which is just so unfortunate.
I will not see this movie in theaters because I think it is what is wrong with society, taking things that are fun and turning them into some weird murder story. No that doesn't happen often but I hope you get my point.