How curious that a new teaser for Guillermo del Toro‘s animated re-telling of Pinocchio focuses not on Geppetto or his carved-wood son Pinocchio or the kids turned into donkey slaves, but on a sophisticated insect Sebastian J. Cricket, obviously related in some way to Jiminy Cricket.
What has a fucking cricket to do with all this, especially a tale that considers the shadow of Benito Mussolini??
Guillermo’s “dark, twisted retelling of the famous Carlo Collodi fairytale, about a wooden puppet who comes to life and dreams of becoming a real boy, takes place in 1930s Fascist Italy. When Pinocchio comes to life, he turns out not to be a nice boy, causing mischief and playing mean tricks. But at its core, Pinocchio is “a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father’s expectations.”