{"id":108129,"date":"2026-02-11T08:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.seattleschild.com\/?p=108129"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:51:17","slug":"movies-that-teach-kids-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleschild.com\/movies-that-teach-kids-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Arco’ and the case for watching sad movies with your kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fridays in my childhood were reserved for trips to Blockbuster, the long-gone video store chain romanticized by generations raised to be kind and rewind. Movies were portals – some to familiar places, others to new frontiers – through which us offline, suburban kittens frequently jumped.<\/p>\n

Last week, for my own family\u2019s Friday movie night, I put on something, as my kids say, \u201cfor work.\u201d Given my job as a film writer, my two daughters have seen almost every age-appropriate flick released in the last five years.<\/p>\n

\u201cArco<\/a>,\u201d coming to theaters this week, is a time- and space-traveling odyssey with a tender vision of the impending environmental crisis and humanity\u2019s machine-reliant future. It\u2019s also undeniably higher brow than the last work movie they saw with me, \u201cThe SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants.<\/a>\u201d All three of us went into \u201cArco\u201d blind, and I was reassured of the choice by its PG rating and recent Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.<\/p>\n

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(Image courtesy of Neon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On- and Off-Screen Heartache<\/h4>\n

\u201cArco\u201d follows a young boy living in a distant future. He inadvertently travels hundreds of years in the past, where Earth is struggling with climate change and a society disassociating under the growing weight of advanced technology. Written and directed by French filmmaker Ugo Bienvenu, the film emulates 80s Japanese anime, taking inspiration from Miyazaki and spinning a story that feels far more urgent than Studio Ghibli\u2019s pastoral perspective.<\/p>\n

At the film\u2019s climax, a young girl named Iris has an emotional, tear-filled goodbye with Mikki, her robot nanny. An artificial stand-in for her parents who live and work outside of the family home, Mikki offers the only form of physical love that Iris experiences in her daily life, and its \u201cdeath\u201d is a tearjerker.<\/p>\n

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(Image courtesy of Neon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sad,\u201d my six-year-old said at no one in particular, tears welling to her throat and then her eyes. She nuzzled into me harder.<\/p>\n

This admission, coupled with the waterworks, were not enough to force me to my feet. Hardly a day goes by that someone in our house doesn\u2019t cry. This is the age of big feelings and high emotions, the usual culprits being hunger, fatigue, minor injury, or the savage tit-for-tat of sibling rivalry.<\/p>\n

But her swell of sorrow wasn\u2019t due to any of those reasons. This was a moment of empathy for fictional characters, a phenomenon that she\u2019s experienced before, though perhaps not as frequently as I might assume. Sure, she\u2019s seen a fair number of movies in her six years of life, but she has also been shielded from the incessant emotional whiplash that older generations endured.<\/p>\n

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(Image courtesy of Neon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Sad Movies We Grew Up With<\/h4>\n

For much of its existence, Disney has made unavoidably sad movies. The studio\u2019s Golden Age (1937 to 1942) released films geared as much to adults as to children, a function of economic necessity and public demand. Films like \u201cSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs,\u201d \u201cDumbo,\u201d \u201cPinocchio,\u201d and \u201cBambi\u201d featured scenes of death, or near-death, and unending human suffering or animal anguish.<\/p>\n

In the late 20th century, the Disney Renaissance (1989 to 1999) and the advent of VHS home theater revitalized the market for children\u2019s animated features. Films like \u201cThe Lion King\u201d and \u201cThe Hunchback of Notre Dame\u201d pushed the envelope of what young viewers could expect from a \u201ckid\u2019s movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” pushed the envelope of what to expect for a kids movie. (Image courtesy Walt Disney Pictures & Walt Disney Animation Studios)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Scanning the Blockbuster aisles in my mind\u2019s eye, I revisit the movies that once brought me the same feelings of sadness my daughter was experiencing, snuggled up next to me on the couch. I see Shadow stuck in the pit at the end of \u201cHomeward Bound: The Incredible Journey,\u201d Littlefoot\u2019s mother sacrificing herself in \u201cThe Land Before Time,\u201d and Charlie saying goodbye to Anne-Marie in \u201cAll Dogs Go to Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an adult, I don\u2019t particularly seek out movies likely to make me cry, but the gut-punch never stopped me in my youth. Oftentimes, it was the opposite: feeling something by film\u2019s end was more gratifying than not. Feeling something was far better than feeling nothing.<\/p>\n

A recent study in Media Psychology<\/a> found that children can be moved by \u201cmoral beauty\u201d in film, and the ensuing emotion they experience opens their heart and mind to greater empathy in real life. The study, which placed the 2015 Pixar film \u201cInside Out\u201d at the center of its investigation, concludes that movies can fuel a child\u2019s social intelligence, offering them a new awareness of their own feelings, as well as the emotions of those around them.<\/p>\n

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Who doesn’t remember this moment from “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey” (Image courtesy Walt Disney Pictures & Touchwood Pacific Partners 1)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What Movies Teach Kids About Empathy<\/h4>\n

As my daughter sniffled and pursed her lips, my initial reaction was to \u201cmake it better,\u201d to reassure her or to distract her from the sentiments bubbling over at the sight of the dying robot. As an adult viewer with a critical eye and a college degree in film studies, I didn\u2019t find Mikki a particularly endearing character (\u201cThe Wild Robot<\/a>\u201d and \u201cWALL-E\u201d are just two android-centric films that make for a more captivating watch).<\/p>\n

But my daughter was not crying about the red-eyed bot. She was not connecting or commiserating with Mikki. She was empathizing with Iris, whose sorrowful goodbye was big, loud, and wholly human.\u00a0She had put herself in Iris\u2019 place, reacting the way she might if her own pet robot decombusted before her eyes.<\/p>\n

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(Image courtesy of Neon)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Like \u201cInside Out,\u201d \u201cArco\u201d employs a traditional blueprint known as the \u201cHero\u2019s Journey,\u201d a classical narrative that follows a hero who goes on an adventure, encounters challenges and overcomes them, returning changed by the journey. The act of following their journey, parsing through the story\u2019s themes and messages, is an early test of cognition that helps kids make sense of complex ideas and situations that they will likely encounter in their own lives. That same study found that films can provide young viewers with insights about life. Stories can introduce topics like death, loss, separation, and any number of traumatic life events in a
\ncontrolled setting, allowing the young viewer time and distance from the event to process it.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t enjoy seeing my children upset, but I was touched by my youngest daughter\u2019s expression of compassion and by her ability to connect, at just six, with a fictional character and a situation that has no resemblance to her own life. Films are meant to broaden our perspective, and \u201cArco\u201d did just that.<\/p>\n

Despite the brief tears, my daughter said she liked the movie. My other daughter asked to watch it again; she was smitten with the hand-drawn aesthetic and the plot that did not dumb itself down for them, even the ending\u2019s twist that had me in a chokehold. They had questions about some of the nuances of the plot, and I answered them as best I could. Our family movie night has never felt as meaningful as it did that night. We all need a good cry once in a while.<\/p>\n

\u201cArco\u201d is in theaters now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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