Homage: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
This scene in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids initially put me in mind of Jonathan Swift's commentary in A Modest Proposal:
”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”
(Plainly, the older ones are only palatable when shrunken to 1/100th of their original size and served with Cheerios and strawberries.)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids also has much in common with Swift's other notable work, Gulliver's Travels, in so far as the main characters must grapple with perpective-shifting proportion. They are reduced to Lilliputian stature and must traverse a world where an ant bears a terrifying aspect and the danger of being devoured in a spoonful of Cheerios becomes frighteningly real.
Homage: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
This scene in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids initially put me in mind of Jonathan Swift's commentary in A Modest Proposal:
”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...”
(Plainly, the older ones are only palatable when shrunken to 1/100th of their original size and served with Cheerios and strawberries.)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids also has much in common with Swift's other notable work, Gulliver's Travels, in so far as the main characters must grapple with perpective-shifting proportion. They are reduced to Lilliputian stature and must traverse a world where an ant bears a terrifying aspect and the danger of being devoured in a spoonful of Cheerios becomes frighteningly real.