Puss in Boots
by Sam Brady on 12/11/11
I was in the cinema yesterday, watching Puss in Boots.
Yes I know it's a kid's film and my kids are all too grown up for this film and won't go and I had to go without them and really I probably shouldn't go either. But I did.
Anyway, here I was watching this film and there was this scene where we meet the goose that lays the golden eggs. And this goose - it's a chick. Well, technically, a gosling.
And I thought "What? A gosling can't lay an egg. It's not a mature adult bird. It isn't sufficiently developed to lay an egg. That's very unrealistic."
This is a film about two cats - one in boots, the other in a Mexican wrestling mask - who embark on adventure with a talking egg to steal from a giant who lives in a castle in the clouds. All of which I readily accepted as reasonable.
But a gosling laying an egg? Really?
Suspension of disbelief is weird, isn't it?
