Posted on 02/07/2014 11:57:05 AM PST by nickcarraway
Saw the movie last night and your comment is spot on...
I was quite surprised by the ending...
It did take about half the night to get this "Everything is Awesome" earworm out of my head...
Heh heh heh heh...awesome.
Exactly! If I hadn't read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism I would have had a much harder time working out the message of the movie. That's why you see so many major corporations donating to Democrats, even the major corporate foundations giving to PBS, etc. Unfortunately LIV's like this reviewer are in danger of misinterpretation since their thoughts never go any deeper than business=bad, government=good. But for the informed it's impossible to miss. I'm thinking of Emmet's enthusiastic listing of all the "cool stuff" President Business does for the people, like make the dumb tv shows, run the government, build the chain restaurants, sell the overpriced coffee, create the voting machines..."huh???" It was great.
Oh, another source that was instrumental in seeing the corporate/government interest in micromanaging our lives was John Taylor Gatto's Underground History of Education in America, the link to which some great FReeper posted here a month or so ago. Thank you whoever you are!!!
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/
Ah-Ha! “LEGO MOVIE: An Analogy for Stop Common Core?”
http://freedomeducator.blogspot.com/2014/02/lego-movie-metaphor-for-stop-common-core.html
While I liked the movie overall, from a family viewpoint, a big problem is that the dad (lord business), is seen as the bad guy as he only wants his lego creation left alone. Junior has his own set even. Did he ask dad for his help or use his own “creativity”. No, he just wants to tinker with the set dad worked so hard on. Now dad is the bad guy in the movie. But even with all of his efforts (from Emett/the kid), dad/lord business still had full power (parental decision making) but had a change of heart after Emett’sspeech. Interestingly, While he wanted to play with dad’s toys, it doesn’t appear that at the end of the movie he was too thrilled with dad’s decision to let his little sister now play with the legos as well. So really, what did the little kid learn - “Dad (Lord business), change your rules inasmuch as they apply only to me?” I know it was meant to be funny but still a bit selfish.
You are so correct. We saw this movie last night and it is an ANTI-STATIST film.
“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things and that is a good message to me.”
Most people don’t do extraordinary things. which I think is the point of what the writer is saying. 99% of people are not living their lives extraordinary. This is also a problem in some of the Christian churches. The Bible says nothing about us doing anything extraordinary. It is God who is extraordinary. Our lives are suppose to be centered around how extraordinary God is not us.
If you talk to people in their 30s, 40s, or 50s. Most people are not doing anything extraordinary. But thanks to movies we now all feel we should be doing more. I’m not sure what more is, but we should be doing it. If in the Christian church we are not feeding enough, not giving enough, not whatever enough and we lose focus. The thing about live is that most of us and our kids, not matter how great we think they are, well most likely be an average Joe or Jane. But when did that become a bad thing? When is serving the Lord just not good enough? In the Bible all the awesome things that happen was because of God, not us.
I get it’s a Lego movie lol! But i can see the trend of everyone has to do something awesome, live awesome, change the world, be different blah, blah, blah. I think even in kid movie we need to be carful about what the world tell us is extraordinary and read the Bible is see what God tell us extraordinary is.
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