Happy Anniversary to Pinocchio, released on this day in 1940. ✨ | Walt Disney Animation Studios

What’s really going on in Disney’s Pinocchio during the Pleasure Island scene? It’s unsettling when we revisit the Pleasure Island scene in Pinocchio. The boys are literally transformed into donkeys, but the way it’s worded—“they don’t come back as boys”—feels off, almost too casual for such a dark transformation. Some might argue that children are too young to understand the deeper implications, and perhaps that’s lucky for us. But even so, the fact that these unsettling undertones exist in chi