[ SECRET POST #2959 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2959 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As far as I've been able to tell, Incredibles resonates spectacularly well if, and only if, you're coming at it from a very specific viewpoint: the incredibly gifted kid who's had to hide what they can do all their life because people think it's freaky. From that perspective, it's basically two hours of wish fulfillment. The things that you have to hide will help you save the world! Everyone will love you because of them! (Because real life doesn't work that way, and the other five-year-olds don't want to talk about the Harry Potter books, and kindergarten teachers don't like it when you start reading off the lesson plans.) If you're coming at it from any other viewpoint, it falls flat. Besides, even from that perspective, the moral is weird. If everyone was special, no one would be. I would have been entirely happy with that.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm. I was that gifted kid you describe. Literally told I was genius level and classified gifted at seven. I spent years hiding it, or told to be more normal, or told to pretend to slow down for the sake of others, not just at school but later at work because it put off clients. I still hated the message of The Incredibles. Just because I have a high IQ and find mathematics easy doesn't mean other people don't all each have their own valuable contributions. Perhaps exactly because I've been that kid I could see what bullshit the movie was trying to peddle. One size fits all never works, but neither are some people more special than others.

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But...the person saying people are more special than others in the movie is the villain. Part of the point is that he's wrong.

Are you sure you're a genius? Because it's pretty dumb to think the message of a movie lies in the crap being spouted by the antagonist. Do you think the message of The Avengers is that humans are naturally slaves?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't say I was a genius. I said others classified me like that. They were educational psychologists.

I'm as dumb as a bag of bricks, in my opinion. I have trouble with simple everyday tasks. It's entirely possible I've got the message wrong of every movie I ever saw.