I’m mad.
Well, okay, let’s dial it back to “pretty frustrated.”
You can’t believe everything you read. Y’all know that, right?
We took the crew to see the movie “Tomorrowland.” After all of the hype in the previews (both at the last movie we saw and on television), the littles really wanted to see it. I breathed a sigh of relief that it was rated PG, and so we made plans to go. Oh, and also #GeorgeClooney.
I wasn’t sure what to expect. I worried that the intensity of it might prove to be too much for our Princess, who can be tender-hearted and sensitive at times, but then she’s handled the third Harry Potter movie okay and insists she can handle the others (not ready to test that though) since she’s read all of the books.
We sat in our seats and began the two hour and ten minute journey.
Amazing.
I was never bored.
The littles were never up, asking me when it would be over or insisting that they had to go to the bathroom now.
Was it intense? YES. Be forewarned if you have little ones there are some interesting and–okay–gory executions of robots. Disney was sure to remind you they were robots because of the mechanical things that happened after they were attacked. I was a little worried that someone might have nightmares last night, but no worries, no problems.
(Whether or not I should be worried about my children accepting violence against a human looking robot is something I’ll worry about another time.)
The thing about this movie is it was about HOPE.
HOPE and what that can do in our world. For the good.
The state of the world in the movie was definitely not good, much as we can say about certain situations in our world today. And yet, there was one who dared to ask, “Well okay, that’s what it is; now, can we fix it?”
Wow.
Later in the movie there was some statement pointing out that it is one thing to recognize the world’s condition, but it takes it to a whole different level to commit to changing it.
In other words, we need to start using our heads for more than just shaking when we see things happening that are wrong.
Not easy stuff in this one, y’all.
But so good and so important.
And then there was this–**spoiler alert** (Seriously, if you don’t want to know, just stop and I’ll see you tomorrow.)
One of the characters in the movie was a recruiter. Whom was she asked to recruit? And how?
Dreamers. The ones who had hope.
She placed a special pin for the person to find and it gave them the vision of what could be.
It was a few hours later as I sat reviewing the movie in my mind (and my heart) that I realized how far away from that I have become. I want to be that person–one worthy of recruiting–a dreamer. I want to feel hope bursting in my chest. For good. For our people. For our world.
I want to be worthy of receiving that pin.
I loved the movie. The reviewers who were less than complimentary–who knows what they were thinking or wanting the movie to be. I went in with no expectations, and I walked out with hope.
Not too shabby for the price of one movie ticket.
Not too shabby at all.
I grew up watching Jodie Foster in Disney movies like “Candleshoe” and watching “That Darn Cat” and the “Witch Mountain” movies. This movie reminded me of the ones I loved growing up. I loved “Tomorrowland” so much that I might have to find my way back to the theater just to watch it again and see what I missed the first time. I’m not sure I can wait for the DVD to come out to watch it again. It was just that good.
Wishing you all a day filled with dreams big and small and with the flutter of hope carrying you all day long.
Love to all.
I Might Need A Nap 