Incredible propaganda - Some egghead thinks too hard about 'The Incredibles' "deeper meaning"

Man, some uber-smart people sound like they need a little suppressing. He needs to remember that most "resentful inferiors" are too dull-witted and can't understand why critics resist enjoying a great movie without poking the life out of it. I will admit that the article was an interesting philisophical read, but c'mon, WTF? Sounds like the writer is working up his chops for a dissertation or trying to show how brainy and superior his intellect is. (ooohhh... SNAP! hahaha...)

Pick a topic, any topic, someone can (and will) strip it down with weasely teeth to tiny bits of intellectual sop and find something weird or dark about it.

Geez.

Anyway, I found the string of comments at the bottom of the linked article interesting to read, especially this one:

I think this is reading far too much into The Incredibles, and a kind of distortion of what seemed to be going on. Take the mother's apparent abandonment of her career in order to be a housewife and mum. Is it worth pointing out that she didn't choose that life, that it was forced on her by a hostile society who couldn't accept the minority group in which she belonged and forced her into hiding? Why not focus on that, a much stronger theme in the film, than the one about celebrating mediocrity?

As for the issue about some people being better than others: well, lots of people are better than me at maths, but it doesn't make me a less worthy human being than them. If you have a problem with the idea of "celebrating mediocrity", maybe it's because society refuses to see us as anything more than the sum of our acheivements. Is that not more morally wrong than actually recognising it?

Comments posted by: Uggi at December 7, 2004 10:35 PM

Well said, Uggi.

/Monkeyman steps down from soapbox