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Kangaroo Love: the movie – Disney needs to hop to it fast



Disney could now release its first adult, social realist, animated treatment with Geoffrey Rush doing the dad’s voice, Cate Blanchett the dying mum, and Chris Hemsworth as the kid.’ Photograph: Evan Switzer

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves,” wrote Oscar Wilde. “By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word.” And the kangaroo, unfortunately, does it while trying to have sex.

[url=]What you see in this picture says more about you than the kangaroo[/url]Stephen Moss

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For those of us who think The Lion King is basically a documentary about the animal world, it was unbearable to see the recent photographs taken in Queensland, Australia, of the male kangaroo apparently cradling its injured and dying mate, who was reaching out to her joey: the poor little thing looked on with a heart-rendingly blank, stunned look. It was like an engraving in a 19th-century novel, or, of course, the death scene in The Lion King or Dumbo. The pictures duly went around the world and around the web.

But now animal behaviour experts are pointing out that we have possibly misunderstood this viral image. The male kangaroo is simply in the proprietorial “guard” position and visibly in a state of arousal, having most likely killed the female while in pursuit of her, or in contest with another male. So it’s justsentimentality and anthropomorphism at work here.

Nonetheless, I think Disney could now release its first adult, social realist, animated treatment, with Geoffrey Rush doing the dad’s voice, Cate Blanchett the dying mum, and Chris Hemsworth as the kid; Rush conveying the tragic agony of having murdered the one he loves.

Truly, madly, deeply

It’s been an awful beginning to the year, with the loss of Alan Rickman, so soon after David Bowie. A great deal has been written about Bowie now, and thealleged griefupmanship online. Some have compared it with the death of Princess Diana. But the comparison with Princess Diana is still, though interesting, wrong.

When Diana died in 1997, the public mourning was coloured by pure astonishment. CS Lewis said that the feeling of grief is close to fear; but with Diana that personal element of fear was missing. I think this is why the Diana emotion felt like an all-you-can-eat buffet of delicious sadness.