From: lalbert1@aol.com   
      
   On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 08:16:20 -0700 (PDT), Bob    
   wrote:   
   >On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:32:09 PM UTC-4, Les wrote:   
   >> On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 08:15:33 -0700 (PDT), Bob    
   >> wrote:   
      
   >> >My friend and housemate Don wanted to see this award-winning movie at last   
   night's   
   >> >outdoor showing in Memory Park in Newton NJ, so we went. Less than an hour   
   into it   
   >> >I found myself doing astronomy, as it was a beautiful clear night and the   
   field lights were off.   
   >> >The first 20 minutes gave me the impression (which was not dispelled by the   
   >> >rest of it) that the makers wanted to sell it for people to buy and rewind   
   often to watch in slow motion.   
   >> >You can't follow the computer-animated action, it's so fast and visually   
   spectacular, with very fast operatic   
   >> >monolog to music. So it's dazzling but incomprehensible. That's OK, except   
   for one main point, it's irrelevant anyway.   
   >> >Although it keeps distracting you, where it's all going is telegraphed   
   very shortly after the opening.   
   >> >What semblance of plot is discernible is trivial, and one you've   
   >> >seen many times before and may well know from real life, minus the   
   allegoric magic: a well-meaning but insensitive   
   >> >and controlling matriarch. The conclusion avoids the predictable-but-good   
   idea which would've been, now we'll live   
   >> >like normal people, what's wrong with that, huh? Instead it presents the   
   also-predictable-but-evil Disney idea that   
   >> >all the magic is restored, magically.   
   >> >Oh, and the setting, if you can figure it out, appears to be a rehash of   
   Hanuka.   
   >> >It's people restoring their lives after some delay after an invasion, with   
   a flame that inexplicably keeps burning,   
   >> >symbolic of miracle. But that too seems like a distraction from the main   
   action in the movie.   
   >> >Bob in Andover   
      
   >> I have not seen the movie so I can't say if your review is good or   
   >> bad. But I am puzzled by your statement above, "Instead it presents   
   >> the also-predictable-but-evil Disney idea that all the magic is   
   >> restored, magically.". Why is that an evil idea?   
   >> Les   
      
   >If the story be taken as allegory that would otherwise say maintaining good   
   relationships takes work,   
   >but says instead good relationships just fall into place and things get done   
   without effort (because of   
   >what's coming to us), then it's evil.   
      
      
   That's your take on the movie as a an older educated adult.   
   I wouldn't expect kids who see the movie to take a life-lesson from   
   it, anymore than they would be influenced by a Daffy Duck cartoon.   
   It's a fantasy, and I think kids realize that.   
   Anyway, https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/08/02   
   or https://tinyurl.com/mrymft32   
      
   Les   
      
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