@deanduncan63Saw #TheLegoMovie. Not really or necessarily appropriate for kids, but then neither were Tex Avery’s cartoons, & they never hurt anybody.
#TheLegoMovie, like Toy Story (1/3) & the divine Speed Racer, models this cool child-developmental concept: http://bit.ly/1gIsS6g …
… This is scaffolding (ZPD). These talented filmmakers are virtuosic imaginers & players, & they may well inspire your kids to new heights.
#TheLegoMovie is also adult-ideological, echoing Plato’s Cave (Rep., VII), Marx on commodification/alienation, Collodi’s Toyland, Baudrillard’s …
… simulacrum (1994), & espec. Frank Baum’s man behind the curtain. In this, Oz-like, The Lego Movie provocatively hints that Institutions & Divinities …
… may actually be entirely false. Instead? Existentialism! Divest of the Material, repudiate the false-Ideological, work it out yourself! …
… Bracing! Chilling! Inspiring! This points to self-reliant, un-deceived adulthood. Or, maybe, disillusionment, despair & solitary death …
… Either way, fun kids’ film!
#TheLegoMovie. Or, this is a great big fat toy commercial for a great big fat toy company.
#TheLegoMovie. Did I say Institutions & Divinities? Dads, more like. This cool film concludes w’ that dubious #LittlePrince cheap shot …
… where adults are naturally joyless & punitive unless a child rescues them. Boo! Remember, James Barrie’s Peter Pan was mostly a Monster …
… Actually, some parents are crazy funsters. And some kids like to colour within the lines. What’s wrong w’ any of all that?!
#TheLegoMovie. Smug St. Exupéry generalizations aside, that sister conclusion is pretty great.
#TheLegoMovie, last. Back to T. Avery cartoons. They lasted all of 7 minutes. This film goes too high & hard/thick & loud for too long …
… It may wildly over-stimulate your very little ones, who might later as a result become insufferably self-regarding intertextual post-modernists.