Horton hears who...

Imagination has been eliminated and may be aborted since the early childhood !
Children sometimes have nightmares of being a homeless ,Mom and Dad not paying the mortgage!
Children dream of not butterflies nor mermaids but batman or wii new edition-2008..

Their dolls are not talking to them anymore and they do not hear imaginary voices ..what they touch is not their cars or bikes but remote control or a mouse ..their eyes are not staring at the birds or skies to find the well-shaped clouds since LCD-flat monitors are around...

Their heroes are not Daddies..they have no clue of who they are or the family tree ...Cousins are not the best friends to play with...neighbor’s kid is the only partner of games 14 + ...Parents should not know about the violence ..

And here it is the movie of imagination...Horton is not a well dressed junior 007 type on a fancy car or bike...!He is an elephant in a jungle. Did I mention Jungle? Yes there are some woods out there...not fenced and controlled number of animals .Not fed by generous human against animal cruelty.

Horton has humor and at the same time seems dumb but he is the one with a kind heart deep inside and humming around and chilling next to the river under the real sun..

This cartoon is not another paid commercial of any games or products..It is a real –real kid movie...!

Mayor ‘s son is one of kids who has no interest in parents and desires to discover himself and sisters of him are fighting for hair brush...here is the first lesson for baby boys : girls may fight for brush and they like to wear pink and be the best for Daddy !That is a sweet scene...

Horton hears who gives the idea to 21st century kids to dare to imagine... to talk to particles around and who knows maybe they can hear back...who knows they can be the savior of a big city...they can be a hero ..( if this word exists anymore for youth)

The Whoville houses are not similar to any of homes around so no kid will annoys parents saying: I want that! They had big chandelier and a pool in back yard. in that little city there was not ski resort ..Everyone was skiing on streets all together...

In that little who city, there was a square to gather people’s fear-anger-happiness...what you have in your plate you can bring it to this square and discuss it as a member of a Whoville!

The good point of this cartoon is being away from any product placement but it was not far from propaganda suggestive point of view to specific nation.
Kids (specially in North America) are living next to each other from different parts of the world ...east-west-north-west-terrorist named-mafia reputed spots...

Teaching them who is better than other is the last thing that Canadian parents would love to do with their kids...Why the weird murderer of the carton should be Vlad( short from of Vladimir)..? And Vlad happened to be one of the most popular Russian named..such a coincidence ha?!

Will any one question the writer –director of this cartoon about the intentions of such a role design? That is so nice of director did not mention anything about Taliban and covered ladies...

Such a nice project why should it be poisoned by the propaganda hint?(Although very minor)

Let’s thank all the people behind this nice animation and hope them more diversity acceptance .Hope our kids understand the intentions behind these stereo typing and ignore them.

Vlad or Brad, John, Ali are all people and anyone could be bad or good no matter of nationality!

Humanity is not a practice it is a truth and it exists, no matter how it is treated.Truth is not changable nor shapable by media !

Neda , March 31st-2008