>What the message is in a movie you see, may be a different message from what others see.
Here is a cartoon clip, produced in 1948. Just watch the 10 min clip and ponder the next few minutes what the message really is about.
So what has the above movie clip got to do with Glen Goei’s The Blue Mountain? We’ll come to that a little later. In the meantime, have you seen what the message is about?
Now, if you were an American living today, and if you did not know that know that the movie was made in 1948, you would see the movie is alluding to today’s America, where citizens are slowly losing their freedom – like the implementation of the Patriot Act. Alternatively, if you knew it was a 1948 movie, you would have taken that the producers somehow had visionary powers, what the future holds – not far off from the likes of Nostradamus worhippers.
But if you knew the political background of the movie above, you would have noted that it actually has a nationalistic message. America represents freedom and democracy. It represents peace, stability and all things free. It also has a political message of “one upmanship” against the communists and Marxists, that America the Free Nation, is superior and no one should give up this freedom.
Note that one movie can have different interpretation and messages.
So what about The Blue Mountain? Well, same thing. It has more than one message. Kelvin of Kent Ridge Common feels it is about our political situation, where LKY rules with an iron hand. I feel that on top of that message, it also has feminist theme, where feminists clash with the ideas of the patriarchal family.
The cartoon clip above is just to show that one movie can have more than one message. There is no need to be boxed up and feel that it has one message and one message only.
