pinocchio doesn't know much about the world and the puppet master tricks him into signing an unfair contract to perform at the carnival. some potentially triggering language like "i am your master and you are a slave"
A circus monkey is periodically manhandled by its owner throughout the first half of the film, but it comes to a head in 2 scenes: (1) a prolonged physical and verbal abuse scene from 51:39 to 49:52, and (2) a scene where the owner and the monkey fight for control from 34:00 to 32:25
SPOILER: The movie ends by skipping forward through time. A cricket dies peacefully of old age at 14:11 and is shown on screen until 14:01. Also, a monkey dies peacefully of old age at 14:48.
In a sense. (SPOILERS) in the film, Pinocchio is immortal and eventually everyone around him dies while he lives on, including Spazzatura the monkey and Sebastian the cricket.
*Please note, this page is for the 2022 Guillermo Del Toro film. However, it is a duplicate and misnamed as of Dec 2022.
No one talks about this. Pinocchio, (who is a young child,) has a weird romance thing with another puppet. The puppeteer of the other puppet is shown, and is clearly an adult.
In the afterlife, characters carry Pinocchio in a coffin while he repeatedly says that he is actually alive from inside, but the coffin is never buried. Pinocchio also falls into sinking sand to return to the land of the living.
The movie starts with Geppetto's son Carlo dying during World War I. Later on, Pinocchio dies several times, but his nature as a living puppet means it doesn't stick except for one point at the end, and even that is quickly undone.
Unrelated but With all due respect wouldn’t it be WAY less confusing if we took things to the “Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio” page I mean that’s already more or less the official title so it limits confusion with the live action Disney version and you don’t have to point out every single time in the comments
Carlo’s book which his father is attached to postmortem is (seemingly accidentally) destroyed by the monkey. Pinocchio himself is damaged a few times but always repaired, he also looks less like a toy and more like wood here.
Pinocchio is a mannequin in a way, considering he's a living puppet. In the stop-motion animated movie (which this page seems to be referring to), he resembles a vaguely humanoid wooden puppet.
A monkey spits up a cricket. It's implied that the monkey swallowed the cricket (or at least stored him in his mouth) while they were in the ocean to save the cricket from drowning. When they get to dry land, the monkey coughs the cricket out. The cricket is alive and well (albeit exhausted). The scene lasts from 20:45 to 20:40.
No, but Pinocchio performs a defamatory song and dance about Mussolini and fascist Italy that switches out a lot of words from the original song with "poop," "poops," "fart," "farting," "caca," and "boogers." The act lasts from 48:02 to 47:20.
No: the movie takes place in fascist Italy during World War 1, and there are frequent depictions of fascism and fascist police, but it is clear the movie is taking a strong stance against fascism.
You could read the Captain of the boat as possibly committing suicide when the Dogfish ,but admittedly it's not clear and there's room for the interpretation that he just swam to safety
Geppetto clearly suffers from PTSD from the loss of his child and pinnochio not acting like Carlo or asking to many questions etc appears to trigger him (mental health definition not internet definition)
You could argue Pinocchio is neurodivergent coded (such as taking things too literally) ,but that's probably unintentional. It's at least in the category of not literal but might give flashbacks in regards to be mistreated for being "different"
The closest is probably the Podesta heavily emphasizing how able-bodied Candlewick is as an example of how he's a "model fascist youth". Otherwise there's not a whole lot going on despite being set in a time and place where it was dangerous to be physically or mentally disabled. Although you could argue that Pinocchio might be neurodivergent coded (at least unintentionally) and is ostracized for stuff like taking expressions too literally. File that under: it's complicated
Catholic imagery with scenes set in a church and emphasis on a wooden statue of Jesus. Spirits representing life and death appear and guide Pinocchio. Pinocchio is confused why people love the wooden statue of Jesus but not him (Pinocchio is viewed as a creation of witchcraft by the churchgoers and persecuted as such), but Geppetto does not give a religious answer to this.
There is an afterlife but nothing presented as "Hell" or close to our concepts of it. Demons are mentioned during a church scene (through expressions of shock, and Pinocchio gets called one) but none are depicted
Pinocchio doesn't wear clothes throughout the film, yet he is not an anatomically correct human. So while technically he is nude for the entire film, it doesn't really matter cause he was designed more or less like a mannequin.
Del Toro's Pinocchio has a fair amount: Shotgun is fired at monkey with helium balloons. Living puppet is shot dead by a handgun. Multiple times when people are threatened with rifle or handgun. Paint ball gun war.