Posted on 02/26/2014 5:29:31 AM PST by InsightSur
NB: this review necessarily contains extensive spoilers.
For a movie about plastic bricks, The Lego Movie is surprisingly fun — and funny.
Unfortunately, the film is tinged with a layer of hypocrisy more intricate than the instruction guide to a Lego castle. The Lego Movie may just be a movie for children about toys, but it is making an impact (even if only subliminal) on impressionable minds — young and adult alike.
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I saw the movie this past weekend, and my take is about the same as the article author’s. It seemed the Lego people were always saying what a “great guy” Mr. Business was and they were very conformist in a creepy kind of way. It did remind me of 1984.
Did you people not stay till the end. President business was the kid’s authoritarian father. It’s how the 10 year old kid saw his dad, not how he understood capitalism.
Exactly. You could even make the case that it’s a slap at the simplistic demonization of capitalism in movies.
Two quick points. First, crony-capitalism is not the same as free markets. Free markets (in the form of individual creativity and initiative) are what Emmet called for (more or less, not overtly of course) in the end. Second, the Lego city was run as a hyper-regulated society. Overall it was an anti-fascist film and a perfect symbol of the state our country is in today.
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