Awesomest moment of Ah-I-Just-Realized in a movie ever.

Aug 03, 2010 22:38

Okay, so I'm currently obsessed with Meet The Robinsons, which was of course released a couple of years ago. Hooray for TV reruns and cheap DVD rentals, yay! :)

You can tell that it's a highly optimistic, idealistic piece of work just by looking at the trailer. Forget that, just by looking at the bus ads. But after I saw the TV rerun (and missing the start, too), one thing struck me as the Crowning Moment Of Awesome Hindsight Realizations which turned the optimism and idealism up to eleven.

Now for a large chunk of the movie, Lewis, the genius kid inventor/heartwarming orphan who has been all down on himself lately after a long string of invention failures and getting rejected by prospective adoptive parents, has been visiting a marvellous, high-tech, totally amazing world of the future, and spent time with the titular Robinson family, the head of which, Cornelius Robinson, is the genius inventor who practically built this world single handedly. The Robinsons are nothing but kind and encouraging to Lewis, even when he fails - something which is a big sore spot. They even offered to adopt Lewis but for some reason balked when finding out he's from the "past".

Then, afterwards, the hilariously inept bad guy in a bowler hat captures him, and at the low spot in the movie, reveals that Cornelius Robinson is Lewis' future self.

It was only after a while that I realized: Oh my, this amazing future, and loving family, is Lewis' own future if he doesn't give up. And, even better, he actually creates it all.

The entire theme of this movie is that no matter what, you should keep moving forward and going for your dreams, even if you do fail spectacularly in the process, and not let painful or negative events of the past define you. If there is a more powerful metaphor that can be used to get this message across, I don't know what it is.

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