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   On Tuesday, 2 August 2022 at 22:09:04 UTC+5, Les wrote:   
   > 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 predi   
   table-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   
      
   I found this post very interesting and informative. Thank you for sharing your   
   special thoughts with us. I definitely share this with my peeps.   
   https://subhandecor.com/pc/metal-candle-holder/   
      
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