The film was received with mixed reviews.BackgroundBambi(1942) is one of the most appealing, gracefully-told, lushly-beautiful, and popular Disney animated film classics.Darren Aronofsky""sBlack Swan (2010)with Natalie Portman as a troubled ballet dancer paid homage to the film, and it probably accounted for he insertion of a ballet sequence ("Lovely Night") into Damien Chazelle""s recentLa La Land (2016)...Toil - for by toil the sweets of human life are found.The Thief, a cheerful infidel, challenged the Holy Man and other mosque-goers by asserting his own philosophy of life - hedonism, lawless selfishness, atheism, materialism, and reckless disregard for others.It was only in the mixed-message ending when the freaks took savage and sadistic revenge.Overall, it made most audiences uncomfortable and engendered fright, uneasiness and animosity.In 1947 after WWII, exhibition rights were sold and acquired by second-rate, exploitation filmmaker/distributor Dwain Esper for the next 25 years.Romeo asks what excuse (or "apology") they should give for their entrance, and Benvolio replies that they don""t need one: "Let hem measure us by what they will.