For the
love of Thomas Hardy
They say script writers should always assume their audiences are twelve year old. That's awful but at least it wouldn't pose too much of a problem for kid movies, right?
It actually does. There are not a lot of intelligent kid movies out there. I know a lot of people love Shrek, for example, but
I just don’t get it. Is a five year old supposed to get a reference to The Matrix?
I like real kid movies, the type that can entertain and stimulate bright kids.
One of them is Inkheart.
This movie isn't so popular and I wonder if it's because the movie has serious flaws or if people are not that into innocent adventures
anymore.
The story is just so promising: Mo (the always pleasing Brendan Fraser) is a silver tongue, he has the ability to bring fictional characters to life when he reads books aloud. The catch is that every time a fictional character comes to our world, a real person enters the book, which is what happened to Mo’s wife, Resa.
The character that was brought from the book Inkheart, Dustfinger, is now after Mo: he wants to go back to his story. It sounds complicated, but it’s not really.
The movie is excellent because the story is
very well thought of. Not only is it filled with adventure and excitement, but
there are a couple of aspects that can really instruct children (and adults) without
them even knowing it.
The story is just so promising: Mo (the always pleasing Brendan Fraser) is a silver tongue, he has the ability to bring fictional characters to life when he reads books aloud. The catch is that every time a fictional character comes to our world, a real person enters the book, which is what happened to Mo’s wife, Resa.
The character that was brought from the book Inkheart, Dustfinger, is now after Mo: he wants to go back to his story. It sounds complicated, but it’s not really.
The villain
and his gang all wear black, carry guns and walk around marching. In case
that analogy isn't clear enough, they also burn books.
I remember that the book in which this movie was based there's a quote that says "Where people burn books, they’ll soon burn people”.
I remember that the book in which this movie was based there's a quote that says "Where people burn books, they’ll soon burn people”.
Moreover,
there’s the symbolism of the writer of Inkheart - the story within the story –
Fenoglio. Dustfinger is afraid to know his creator, the writer, whereas
Fenoglio loves Dustfinger and wants to stay close to him.
When they first meet, Dustfinger, acting just like a rebelled creature, says “You are not my god”. It's like what Saint Augustine said: "the question that torments mankind the most is how God can have foreknowledge of everything in the future and yet we do not sin by necessity but by our own free will."
When they first meet, Dustfinger, acting just like a rebelled creature, says “You are not my god”. It's like what Saint Augustine said: "the question that torments mankind the most is how God can have foreknowledge of everything in the future and yet we do not sin by necessity but by our own free will."
Inkheart,
regardless of being a kid’s movie, is my type of movie. It cater
for younger audiences with its “Middle Earth” fantastical atmosphere and... Brendan Fraser.
But it has more. it deals with issues that are difficult to bring up even in serious adult movies such as Nazism and the relationship between man and God. I really like this movie, perhaps because I am a book person, but mostly because it doesn’t assume I'm dumb.
Have you seen Inkheart ot read the books?
But it has more. it deals with issues that are difficult to bring up even in serious adult movies such as Nazism and the relationship between man and God. I really like this movie, perhaps because I am a book person, but mostly because it doesn’t assume I'm dumb.
Have you seen Inkheart ot read the books?
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
by Aristotle
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