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Anonymous,
I'd never compare the South African industry or HIV-positive muppets or art-film shorts and especially not the animation studio where I work (incidentally, one of the largest on the continent) with Pixar. That's just silly.
The point was that in a country where gender violence is so extreme, we're possibly more sensitised to the real need to portray strong dynamic girl characters than in other countries.
Interestingly, the local cinemas decided to screen And There In The Dust (the stop-motion short dealing with the real life rape of a nine month old baby girl, Tsephang) before Sin City . It was a very strange, but inspired decision. Difficult to treat Rodriguez' sexed up glorification of child rape in the opening scene as light entertainment after a harrowing animated short dealing with the real thing.
