Perri
Release Date: August 28, 1957
Watch Date: March 10, 2023
Now this isn't a True-Life Adventure it's a True-Life Fantasy, which is different in that it's a documentary within a story, instead of a story within a documentary. Very complicated stuff, and entirely different.
Perri is basically a live action version of Bambi, if Bambi was about a squirrel and not a deer. It has pretty much the exact same feel to it. Lost baby animal without parents survives a year in a North American forest, there are traumatic events - another forest fire - and finds love, continuing the species.
There's nothing wrong with that. Bambi was a relaxing, quiet movie and Perri is too. If anything, Perris is more violent, with an animal dying every other scene - or at least that's how it feels. Bambi is obviously more dramatic because the plot can be 100% controlled, but there's drama to a natural hunt too, and that drama of life and death cannot be debated.
I don't hate Perri, I just think it's kind of boring. I've watched this movie before. It was called Bambi, and there's a reason that it became a classic and not Perri. Boring is starting to feel like more of a crime within this marathon than bad because there's just less for me to talk about.
It's a slightly informative movie about life in a North American forest. Disney may have helped to encourage a forest fire, again it seems natural disasters seem to follow these documentarians wherever they go. I don't want to get sued. Disney does not set forests on fire. I know that. They just happen to be really good at finding forests that are on fire.
You can skip Perri and your life won't be any worse for wear, but if you're a True-Life completionist, then maybe you want to watch it. Your life still won't be any worse for wear. And tragically that's the impression Perri has left on me, one of complete neutrality.
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