Pinocchio (1940) Is Not About Wishes

“Anything your heart desires will come to you.”

Priya Sridhar
Permanent Nerd Network
9 min readMar 27, 2024

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Pinocchio is one of those weird ducks in the Disney Animated Canon. The animation is gorgeous, and the music stays with you. I also believe that it is the scariest movie, owing to the sheer amount of horrifying imagery with the antagonists, as well as showing drowning onscreen, which is one of my worst fears.

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Priya Sridhar
Permanent Nerd Network

A 2016 MBA graduate and published author, Priya Sridhar has been writing fantasy and science fiction for fifteen years, and counting.