me, twelve years old, watching Astro Boy (2009) for the very first time: hell yeah badass robot doing badass flying stunts and beating up bad guys in a dystopian hellscape
me, twenty-something years old, watching Astro Boy (2009) again for the first time in ten years: oh my god….. he’s just a little kid…… and he’s all alone in the world….. oh my god he’s on the run from the government and no one in this entire movie gives a single shit about him….. oh my god…. where are his parents??? why aren’t his parents protecting him??? oh my god he’s just a little kid and he’s all alone oh my god



















