And remember the follow the instructions _{or you’ll be put to sleep}

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I really loved that movie, not just cause it was fun in general and the way they made both worlds intertwined but I liked the message and the way it was presented.
 
The kid was a “free spirit” sort and very creative and the dad was ridged and a perfectionist.
 
Free spirit types tend to be full of ideas and creativity but by their very nature can be rendered inconsistent, unstable and very unreliable sometimes leaving them and their hopes, dreams and so fourth as nothing but a tangled mess.
 
Ridged types tend to be very reliable and strive for stability and consistency but by their nature can become stuck in ruts just cycling over and over again and even freeze themselves into narrow unyielding habits and ideals from which no one can move them regardless the evidence or reasons.
 
The boy as a free spirit loves creativity and exploration but he also realizes the possible downsides to his nature. In the boys story it only took relatively minor provocation for “cloud cuckoo land” to blow apart in it’s entirety.
 
The fathers worlds were stable and highly functional. However not only was he well along into being stuck in habits only cycling over and over again never truly progressing, he was preparing to glue everything down and escalate to a permanent stand still.
 
The boy could see the good and bad of both sides and was pained to see his father was not only oblivious to the dangers of his own thinking and allowed himself to escalate unchecked and unbalanced but preparing to take a last jump and seal himself in his way by glueing everything down.
 
The boy knew both the attributes of creativity and rigidity as necessary such as when the bunk bed couch thing which he had created plans for was the only thing on the submarine to survive but using creativity to build plans and then sticking to those plans could they hope to beat the bad guy.
 
The boy loved his father and thought the fathers way of doing things had very good points to it but saw his father preparing to take things past what the boy saw as a healthy and balanced form. It wasn’t that “Lord Business” was or ever had been inherently “evil” but he was headed down that direction and to such an extent to would be all the harder to return from.
 
And then of course he did as children do when faced with a problem they are trying to understand, he played it out. Then it was through the coarse of the story the father also saw what his child wished they could tell them. In the end the father finally saw the points of both ways and probably not just in terms of the Legos but in life. Now he would be more free to spend time with his family but also provide his son with the lessons in rigidity his son had been craving for.
 
So silly, so care free and yet deep down very profound and honestly a lesson that is not all that often heard. A lesson of balance and not “compromise” but of intertwining.

Blacktron is still best faction.

Why did this take so lo-
 
[Browses the “Everything is Awesome” tag]
 
Oh.