Look kids, this is just such a sad state of affairs if only because we've got to live togather in this world while we are at odds with one another. It is dumb and stupid to give each other a hard time on this. We must live and let live and respect the desires of others -- their needs for themselves. As I've said before, I'm an atheist secular Jew and I probably only say that because my mother was a Jew and Hitler would've cremated me alive only beause of that fact. (Dad wasn't.) My wife is a Jehovah's Witness and she and her friends KNOW all the f-ing answers. (Some just need to have certainty I guess.)
I've seen sad and terrible problems when the kids NEED other things in their lives---things that are natural to desire if one is true to the STRONG urges of one's "wisdom body"--as Joseph Campbell called it ---the natural searching force to break out on their own hook that young folks exhibit.--- It's inherant, as I see it, in most people to go their own ways--read their own books, venerate things as they view it---not as others force them to see it. And it should be o.k. and not a threat when they look to so-called "heathen" religions, witchcraft, or maybe occult or shamanistic societies. If freedom of religion is more than an ideal, we must make room. It's in their interest and our own.

As I said, it's just a wondrous story--imagination made beautiful in it vividness and it's complexity. It will be fantastic to see it on the screen IF it is done well.

May the hair on your feet grow long. And if you want to dye it pink and gel it and spike it or pierce your little toe and cultivate your foot fetish---so be it.

Art Thieme