From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   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.   
      
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