Would you take a 10-year old to see the movie 'Dunkirk'

[Hekate]

20. I watched a ton of WW II movies when I was a kid-- on B/W tv late at night while babysitting

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I recommend any and all of that genre from THAT time for the young. There's a clear sense of right and wrong, of courage and brotherhood, all of the things you want to expose your kid to, without the overwhelming emphasis on blood and gore. People die and are maimed, but somehow it's not the same as now. The story of Anne Frank is out there. In the modern era, there's Schindler's list.

It's a horrifying era that deserves to be remembered and told to the young, but given to them in bites they can chew. You have to talk about what you're viewing. How did Hitler rise? How did civilized Europe rend itself to pieces? Could it happen again? (Yes, repeatedly, just not in Europe) Could it happen here? (What do you think?) And so on.

Has your son read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix? As a kid I read a slew of post-WW II books about kids in The Resistance. I imagined myself being that brave.

Dunkirk? You be the judge. There's always next year and the year after.

Grandma Hekate