Bambi Bambi, this book adaption by Walt Disney, is awesome, aesthetically as well as in narrative terms. It centers around a clumsy white-tailed deer, which we are watching for 62 minutes, whilst he is growing up. He is the most peculiar Disney hero I know. For the most of the movie he is insecure, weak, focused at his mother (mutterfixiert), a follower (Mitläufer) but very likable. Then, his mother dies and his father takes over caring. The motherly world tilts to the fatherly world. Responsibility, mating and fighting begins. Bambi grows horns. Men destroy everything. Men disappear again. Bambi, as his childhood friends, falls in love and has children. But, as all his friends and the fathers of his friends he doesn't take care of his off springs. It is spring, the eternal circle of nature starts all over again. Besides - whole generations of children were traumatized by Bambi's mothers death. New generations get their traumas from Princess Mononoke. But, as it is common knowledge: animated films are appropriate for children, and therefore, no parent could be deterred by the movie's content.