For Kestrell, part of the greatness of Curse is that it's all *about* how adults are insane and lie all the time

I would have an easier time with that as the lesson of a film if we weren't intended to take a climactic instance of an adult lying to a child as something that is supposed to make the child happy, because she doesn't know it's a lie. I don't remember it ironically. As I said, I'll give it another shot.