Take the Kids Exposed to JW Stuff to the Disney Movie, "TANGLED." Great Message For Them

by OnTheWayOut 13 Replies latest social entertainment

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    I took my wife to this movie and pried her a bit on the way home to make her think about how sometimes the people we trust are our enemies.

    The Disney movie, TANGLED, is their spin on the Repunzel story. I'll try not to spoil their movie and still make the point of why this is a great movie to take a JW to, the older and closer to adulthood the better. You total adults with JW adult loved ones should drag them to it.

    The villain takes Repunzel away from her life (as a baby) and keeps her in "the tower" for her own evil purposes. The villain becomes "Mother" and Repunzel thinks Mother is wise and protecting and that she must obey Mother. Mother convinces her that (literally) "the world is full of cruel people out to hurt you." When Repunzel is exposed to a taste of the world as a near-adult, it isn't as evil as Mother says and her curiosity gets to her to get out into the world she has never seen from "the tower."

    Repunzel has the guilt of disobeying Mother as she dares to look at the world outside of the tower. She goes back and forth and even goes back to her life in "the tower" at one point.

    So it turns out that the one thing that was solid in her life was actually the evil in her life and she had been misled. The evil outside was actually the good she needed that wanted to help her out. I'll spoil it a bit here, so don't tell your kids if you plan to take them (or stop reading now).

    Repunzel figures it out on her own from her own brain and her own eyes, but would have willingly stayed in her situation to help a loved one.

  • just n from bethel
    just n from bethel

    Thanks, OTWO, I think these kind of films and books that have nothing to do with JWs but present a similar concept will resonate with people better than if we tried to get them to visit this forum or read CoC. Good idea.

  • ziddina
    ziddina

    Oh, I love the imagery!!!

    A "TOWER"... A woman locked up... An evil "Mother".... The lies that "Mother" tells the innocent young woman, in order to control her... A power trip for "Mother" that is so potent, she will do ANYTHING to retain that control...

    So fitting!!! I'll have to see it!

    Zid

  • yknot
    yknot

    I loved that movie......and the best part is that it has a happy ending!

  • 3Mozzies
    3Mozzies

    OTWO

    Now I want to see the movie :)

    3Mozzies

  • Gayle
    Gayle

    Yes, like the WT,,tangles the minds of their people,,when "cut" free of those tangles, then the 'false' mother disintegrates.

  • tec
    tec

    The movie looked great to begin with, now it sounds even better! Thanks, OTWO.

    Tammy

  • Evidently Apostate
    Evidently Apostate

    its a shame but i think any similarities would just go over their heads even if they were pointed out.

  • garyneal
    garyneal

    LOL, get out of my head!

    I thought I was the only one who saw the similarities. I remember my wife and I took my daughter and her cousin to see that movie and I was thinking about how Repunzel was thinking that she was such a horrible person while enjoying her freedom from 'the Tower' (I got that too while watching the movie). It was SO SO SO SO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO similar to how my wife loved throwing birthday parties and buying Christmas decorations for 6 years of our marriage while simultaneously saying, "I'm going to die. God's going to kill me. I'm so dead."

    When we try to reason on it, even when she was celebrating, she would always try to push the typical party line. "We buy gifts all year long. Why celebrate Christ's birth on a day that is not even His birthday? It promotes materialism. Blah blah blah." As if her taking that hard line stance somehow made her look approved by 'mother.'

    its a shame but i think any similarities would just go over their heads even if they were pointed out.

    They would, that is why I never pointed them out to my wife. She's not interested in truth.

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut
    its a shame but i think any similarities would just go over their heads even if they were pointed out.

    Every little bit helps. If you can't club them over the head with the truth, it's still good to put them in positions that make a person pause.

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