Movie poll: Was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory actually a hit on bad parenting? *spoilers*

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I just read a supposedly serious blog about this and it kinda has a point about the original movie😂. Let's look at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory since I'm not sure if everyone has seen the original Willy Wonka or read the book.

The fat kid is sucked up a pipe where he could potentially suffocate or drown. There was plenty of time to get him out of the chocolate river had Willy, mom or anyone else cared enough to ignore that Willy didn't want to contaminate the river further. Like it wasn't already contaminated when he was sticking his hands in it. This kid is discribed as repulsive for what, having a eating disorder his parents don't care about? Both parents are also depicted as guttons and do nothing to stop their obese kid from binge eating, which he does, he's eating in almost every scene that focuses on him.

Violet is a little girl who is under constant pressure from her mom to preform and win at everything she does, like she once did apparently. One of the tons of things she does competitively is chew gum, so when Willy holds a fancy piece up in front of a group of kids guess who grabs it and puts it in her mouth? Violet. And guess who does nothing physically to stop her? The group. The girl swells up and has to be "juiced". Imagen what that is like for a second. Ew.

Veruca is the spoiled filthy rich kid everyone can agree to hate, right? Hate her as we may let's not forget that she didn't spoil herself. She is one of those kids that are handed money instead of love, so she takes a trip down a trash shoot (metaphor for her attitude I guess) with a furnace that may or may not be lit at the end.

Mike is the kid all older folks hate, being video game obsessed, never goes outside, blah blah blah from the "fun makes you lazy and murderous" generation. First, there's nothing wrong with video games by themselves. Second, Mike is a very smart and tech-savy kid. His parents obviously didn't bother to teach him manners and possibly used the TV as a baby sitter for a portion of his short life. He's another neglected child who happens to be excited that Willy invented a tv teleporter and gets shrunken and has to then be stretched on the taffy puller.

Charlie, the winning kid, is undoubtably the most greatful kid of all of them. So he's given the worlds biggest chocolate factory and all it's responsibilities as a young child and told to leave his struggling family behind. Because family gets you nowhere? Even after his parents were portrayed as the only ones who cared about their child on an emotional level. This plays off Willy running away from his verbally abusive father and became successful later in life by holding on to a childhood obsession (candy) he probably wouldn't have had if his dad didn't try to shelter him from it to begin with.

Do you think the book and movies may actually be a jab at shitty parenting? This is just for fun btw.

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