You know, modern family films are really missing this existential dread and despair thing

The unicorn regrets her love lost, the loss of innocence she was forced to trade for knowledge or mortality and that she ultimately had to give up her human life in order to save the others. It's a complex and rich story that Disney could never hope to match with their bland and risk free sugar coating of every story they adapt.

you missed the point of the "duet". i took it as Amalthea not having the best singing voice because she singing from a hurt place. and the book specifically mentions that she had never heard her voice before so when she spoke she startled herself. i doubt she would have mastered singing sometime during her mission. and Lir. oh bae Lir. he was a hero, not a singer! his voice was raw emotion. Amalthea inspired Lir to get out of his comfort zone to try to woo her. Jeff Bridges's voice was perfect for that. he wasnt supposed to be an amazing singer. thats why i love about this movie too, the the music. it goes with the theme of the movie. its not supposed to be perfect and polished. its supposed to be real and emotional.

I watched this movie at six or seven, and I absolutely loved it! I think that children need to understand sadness, fear and melancholy before they experienced it in real life, what better way to do it that with a animated movie.

Molly's tantrum is a pretty powerful scene, in the book/ other short stories in the series a young maiden is required to call a unicorn to prove she is a virgin before getting married. (In the book and mythology unicorns are drawn to virgins) It can be interpreted in her scene as her screaming about "where were you 10 years ago, 20 years ago? Where were you when I was new?" As when she was a young virgin maiden she called for a unicorn, but since they were all gone none came. Obviously with the medival time period this is set in this would have caused her a lot of trouble/ being unable to get married.

The movie is 100% fine, you just were exposed to it like three years too early.

35 year old gay man here, I have never met anyone who has seen this film. This movie still resonates with me today. Wait, are you me? I think you’re me.

the last unicorn is one of the best animated shows of all time. For live action i go for Legend. But yeah The last unicorn was fairly terrifying, the witch was hella scary.

The last unicorn made me feel deep deep sorrow and a little depression as a CHILD! I've always been one who gathers toward sorrowful or melancholy things~~~and although I appreciate this side of me, I can recognize this movie being a huge part of it, the shaping of me.

There is immense sorrow captured in The Last Unicorn and it heralded the end of an age and departure of magic from the world. As the last unicorn wanders in search of her kin calling out I’m alive, I’m alive.

"I can feel this body dying all around me!"

In regard to Molly's meltdown: Imagine if you looked forward to prom your whole life, but you never got to go when you were in school. Then the first prom you had a chance to go to was as a chaperone, at forty-five. Now up that to the point of it being supernatural. I kind of don't blame her. She might've been holding that in for a while.

I would rent this movie obsessively from library like every week as a child. I'm starting to realize why I am the way I am.

Was I the only one who watched this movie as a kid and absolutely loved it and wasn’t disturbed or scared at all? It infused me with a sense of wonder that maybe there were still unicorns out there hiding from the mean humans haha. I thought it was so cool. It comforted me.

A little fun fact, this movie was aimed at an older audience.

When I was little, me and my mom were at the store and she’d let me choose a movie. I used to be so into my little pony. My first movie ever was my little pony. (The 1980’s one) so when I saw anything that resembles a horse/pony. I’d instantly got it. That’s how I found out about the last unicorn. Needless to say it also shocked me. It has a long term affect on me. Especially with the messages about innocence, which I grasp more as I get older. I’m 18 now, and I’m aiming to be an animator one day. Thanks to movies like this. I still to this day play ‘the last unicorn’ by America while drawing/animating.

I saw this movie as a very young child as well and it honestly shaped so much of the lens I view the world through. I feel like I managed to grasp most of the messages emotionally, if not intellectually, you know? Like the unicorn thanking Schmendrick for giving her the ability to feel regret, even though it's a painful emotion. That one scene taught me that even painful experiences can be beneficial to one's personal growth. There was no, "I regret and now I have to get over it so I never feel it again." Instead the unicorn lives with it, and cherishes the perspective it gives her.

When I was a kid I became kind of depressed as soon as I went to school. I'm autistic, and I was the first open case in my school, so, as you can imagine, things didn't go well.

This movie completely disturbed me in a totally different way. When I was very very little, my sisters, my mom, and I used to all sleep in the same room with one of the old school tube TVs running all night. I have no idea what channel it was on, but I remember waking up at different times on different nights and just catching scenes from this movie. I had to have been in like preschool at the time. Neither my parents or anyone else I asked at the time had ever heard of this movie, leading me to the conclusion that this was just a reoccurring nightmare I was having, specifically the scenes with the harpy (a bird with dog ears and other unnatural organs eating a woman and glowing red) and the Red Bull chasing the unicorns. I thought this way for YEARS. I didn’t find out it was an actual movie until I was in 10th grade, when I was completely mind blown to find out the thing I thought was cooked up in my imagination was a real movie, that someone made, for children. I’m glad others have suffered from it too though, now I don’t feel so weird about it.

when you get older than 5 and finally realize you watched an old lady be murdered by a triple-breasted bearded murder bird and that the tree had tiddies. My parents too saw a horse on the cover and were like "yeah this is fine for kids".