#11 Dumbo

January 11, 2021
Dumbo (1941) ***
Disney+
Free
Disney Animation

So, January 11th was the first day that I came really close to messing up this whole project not even two full weeks into January, but I did not! Mostly. I did follow the letter of the law, but I feel like I just kind of skated by.

I was beyond exhausted, and it was getting later and later and later, and I could not find a film to watch. I scrolled and scrolled through all these different apps and nothing was speaking to me, and time just kept moving forward in a very annoying manner!

Finally, I decided on Dumbo, because it was the next film in the Disney animation list, and it’s only slightly over an hour long, and of course I had seen it before. Perfect! However, while I was searching I was having a lot of problems with the Internet, and when it was time to start watching it I ended up having to watch it on my phone because the Wi-Fi was just being a poop.

So, let me paint you a picture. I’m exhausted, it’s after midnight, I can barely think, and I am lying in bed watching Dumbo on my phone. What do you think happens next? Yeah, I fell asleep. I think I saw about half an hour of it, I got to the part where he was a clown and did his act with them playing the baby at the top of the burning building, but if I were to describe the plot just from what I saw, it would not include anything about flying elephants.

It would, however, include a lot about what a terrible circus this is, where a baby elephant is taken away from his mother and nobody takes care of him AT ALL, so a MOUSE has to do it! These people should not be in charge of baby elephants!

Anyway, so I did watch part of a movie, and it’s not as though I didn’t fall asleep in movies plenty in theatres in the before times, so it does count as being watched on 1/11/21, the eleventh movie on the eleventh day of the year, but I think I’ll watch it again anyway. When I do, it will NOT count as the film of the day, of course. I just want to see an elephant fly.