I'm a movie freak from top to bottom. And sometimes I tend to miss out on what was the whole point or overall gist of the movies. Symbolism sort of wacks me off a bit. So I tank (yes, this was intentional mispelingig) Mrs. Saunders for opening my eyes to what those symbolisms were.
What interested me the most was that scene where Theo took Kee and her caretaker to the abandoned playground. Where Kee's caretaker mentioned that the world needed the laughter of children.
She is not wrong by a long shot.
The world needs the carefree of youth to brighten our worries. The problem in that society was that they lost something to protect. To censor the young from the terrors of what the world can bring at such tender ages. The absence of innocence leads to malice, cold, humorless world.
"malice, cold, humorless world"
ReplyDeleteyou could argue that the idea of innocence is an inane attempt at perverting reality as though it were this bad, and that living within a world of fiction is somehow better. I would argue that the world is only this way by comparison, but in actuality, is completely neutral.