Real Steel

I don't usually give reports on movies that I see, but dang...

I didn't expect Real Steel to be good, but dang...

There seems to be a pattern with Steven Spielberg's work. Taking E.T., Super 8, Real Steel, and A Land Before Time into account, it seems like Steven really likes movies to focus on the virtues of Kids. Kids tend to get ignored and written off as naive and incapable of effecting change. In Steven's movies, kids are shown as being unexpectedly Brave,Wise, and Practical. Often kids are more aware and capable of handling things than adults. Kids possess something adults tend to forget and overlook -Spirit and Faith.

In E.T., the kids go out of their way to help take care of the alien and gt him back home. All the adults want to do is study him. The kids are smart enough to realize that the being is capable of emotion, rationality, and autonomy. They therefore put the alien before their own wants and desires -unlike the adults trying to understand the way his biological system functions.

In Super 8, the kids find out what is happening and discover who the alien is and what it wants. They then put everything aside to work together to make things happen. Kids can be smart, organized, and mature.

In Real Steel, the kid showed his dad that he knew what he was talking about when he put his faith in an old robot. Human spirit made that robot prevail and sustain itself, and without the kid, the robot would have had none. The father was also able to reconnect with his own lost faith in himself and work to be the man he knew he should be.

In Land Before Time, a bunch of "kids" were lost and trying t find their way. They all had their own personal issues that would come up as a group, but they managed to pull together and find their way/ overcome challenges together.

The moral of the stories are: Don't write kids off. Some aren't as young as they seem, and if you treat them with respect and try to understand them, Kids have things to teach that Adults need to learn.

On a random side note, that do you do if you have a friend who says that the government surgically put a tracking device chip in his intestines when he was 24? Hypothetically speaking this individual is now in his 40s and says 1. the government wants to keep track of him because he is really good at drawing cars and aircraft and 2. he wanted to join Usana and other groups, but his mom wouldn't let him. Just wondering...