That's an interesting (and contradictory to my own impressions) take on the movie, and I'll have to give it more thought, but my impression of The Incredibles was that it was advocating not fitting in, not repressing oneself, acknowledging inequality of ability while agitating equality of opportunity: at the end, all the superheroes go back to being their super selves and stop trying to pretend to be normal. They weren't half bad at being normal, but that's not an argument for them to do so.
I agree with what you say, completely, about America not acknowledging inequality enough (and when we do acknowledge it, we tend to not examine its causes closely enough), but I guess I didn't see that same message in the movie. I thought the whole discussion was made a lot more cogently in Ratatouille, certainly--the critic in there says in his review that "Not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere", which is certainly a pithier summation.
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Date: 2008-10-03 04:52 pm (UTC)I agree with what you say, completely, about America not acknowledging inequality enough (and when we do acknowledge it, we tend to not examine its causes closely enough), but I guess I didn't see that same message in the movie. I thought the whole discussion was made a lot more cogently in Ratatouille, certainly--the critic in there says in his review that "Not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere", which is certainly a pithier summation.