![]() ![]() Both have extensive origin stories as to how they have been privy to glimpses and experiences of a utopian alternate setting unofficially dubbed Tomorrowland. She is the newcomer to where Frank has been before. They were hiding an elephant behind a curtain hoping to be the magician that made it disappear, but not before showing you how pretty and amazing the elephant was for good reason.Īcademy Award winner George Clooney gets top billing as the weary and reclusive inventor Frank Walker, but the film's real central character is Britt Robertson's Casey Newton. The advance marketing for "Tomorrowland" has done very little to tip its hand and this review will remain spoiler-free. Everyone that was likely expecting a whimsical family-friendly film with gadgets and adventure are instead getting what stands to be the most polarizing film of the season, if not the year. Brad Bird's film is a platform for big ideas that knows it's on a platform to also sell tickets and merchandise, putting it in that very divisive place between intention, tone, and how people are going to interpret it. It is, with absolute certainty, an enormous message movie hiding behind a summer blockbuster. Thinly veiled beneath the powerhouse studio running the show, Disney's "Tomorrowland" is your new lightning rod between poignant and preachy. ![]() In the end, the viewers get to decide how they feel and the range of results is incredibly divisive. From "The Birth of a Nation" a century ago to "American Sniper" just last year, thousands have movies have pushed buttons with their message and polarized audiences. Some films are poignant and affirming while others reek of preaching or borderline propaganda. No matter the genre or example, the effect and acceptance within this realm we call cinema or entertainment all depends on the intention of the message or lesson and the tone by which it was delivered. Even the most political, grotesque, or gaudy glorification of war in a film is an antithesis in disguise. This mantra that "every movie has a lesson" is completely true, but, at the same time, every movie also has one or more of those other ideals in mind as well, many of which are intentionally created.įor example, as has been stated before on this page, every war movie, and I mean all of them, are essentially an anti-war film in message and intention. "Lesson" could be exchanged for moral, reason, agenda, message, suggestion, recommendation, guidance, motive, portent, omen, admonition, exemplar, precedent, or representation. I can't tell them anything if you keep interrupting me.This website hangs its hat on the titular mantra that "every movie has a lesson." When you step back and grab a thesaurus, "lesson," in this case, can be a broad term to include several other teachable moments. and scientific breakthroughs, wonder and beauty. ![]() Unstable governments, over-population, wars on every continent, famine, water shortages, environmental collapse. this is a story about the future, and the future can be scary. Hey, I'm Frank, how you doing? Don't answer that. Just try to be a little more upbeat.Frank Walker: Upbeat?Casey Newton: Yeah, tell them what you like.Frank Walker: I can't tell them anything if you keep interrupting me.Casey Newton: You're right, sorry. and scientific breakthroughs, wonder and beauty.Frank Walker: Could you please just stop interrupting?Casey Newton: I will. Unstable governments, over-population, wars on every continent, famine, water shortages, environmental collapse.Casey Newton. this is a story about the future, and the future can be scary.Casey Newton: Mmm.Frank Walker: What?Casey Newton: You sure you want to go with scary?Frank Walker: Yes I want to go with scary.Casey Newton: Okay!Frank Walker: Okay!Frank Walker: The future can be scary. Frank Walker: Are they on?Casey Newton: Yep, so introduce yourself.Frank Walker: Okay. ![]()
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