Jerseycajun gets the medal for the best post, here. Cuz for one, it best suits what the movie was about, AND answers the political questions of the “conservatives”.
It’s pretty remarkable. Liberals have a healthy mistrust of big corporations. Conservatives have a healthy mistrust of big gov’t. But really, they both have a very healthy mistrust of consolidated power. If only they’d come together to recognize it. after all, both entities(gov’t and megacorp) become one and the same in this film.
You would think that the whole “‘relax, let those of us in power take care of you’ = disaster” message of the movie would become clear and agreeable to both philosophies.
You’d also think that a concept in which the meek, the loyal, and the faithful character becomes the savior in the end, would also be agreeable and clear to both philosophies. That that character would inspire the others to stand up and rebuild what they had lost; that THIS would inspire beyond any political barrier, as it adheres to the danger of over-consumerism as well as over-reliance on the gov’t to solve your problems…
Apparently not.
Turn off Hannity. Read a book. Stop calling anybody who isn’t like you a liberal elitist. Our problems are far too complicated for a liberal or conservative philosophy to figure out.
And you’ve gotta love a movie that fascinates kids, and yet gets adults to talk about things like this. If you don’t… well, you either haven’t really seen it or have some real soul searching to do.
Good luck with that, sincerely. But the rest of us are moving on, with or without you.
