So,
tonight was the first movie night at our apartment. All I can say -
is it was a great success. The movie of subject was – TRON –
Legacy.
SPOILER
WARNING!!!!!!
Now -
overall, the movie was a very good movie. I found myself deeply
fascinated with it. Now, we could perhaps compare it to the Matrix
Trilogy, or other movies, yet this was unique in it's own way.
The
part of the story that really lured me in, was the father and son
relationship. In the beginning of the movie, the father, Kevin
Flynn, told his son, Sam Flynn, that he had to go to work, but the
next day he would take Sam to the arcade to give him an opportunity
to beat his old man's record on the Arcade game, TRON.
Well,
what happens next is bizarre. Kevin goes “missing”. How Sam
would deal with this –- who knows?!
Sam,
in a sense, because much like the son from the story of the “Prodigal
Son”. He goes his own way, and is somewhat of a Rebel.
Well,
eventually time catches up with Sam –- and an overnight stay at the
Police Station, brings a visit from someone who was like a second
father to him, Alan Bradley. Alan tells Sam he received a page from
his father, Kevin. He suggests Sam to go to the old Arcade and have
a look for his pop.
Relunctantly,
Sam finally goes. Walks into the Arcade, powers on the breakers and
all the Arcade machines start-up. Sam, walks up to the TRON machine
and figures he'll take a crack at the game. He puts his quarter into
the machine and out it pops – after a look on the floor, he notices
a crack in the floor. He pulls out the TRON machine, to find a trap
door behind the machine. Following his path – he finds a hidden
office, with some really nice equipment, and a computer from the 80's
with a touch screen. WOAH!
Anyways
- after checking out a few things, and running a few LINUX commands -
before you know it, Sam is now walking in a VIRTUAL Reality. He
comes across characters that he actually had as action figures from
his dad. Next thing you know, Sam is fighting these characters,
before the enemy “Clu” stops the fighting and gives Sam another
game to play. Unfortunately, this too is a game geared to bring his
destruction/death.
Before
you know it–- some car shows up and the driver tells Sam to jump
in, this girl being Quorra - who is now bringing Sam to meet his
father. WHAT?!?!?!
So,
Sam reunites with his father after a 15-20 year absence, and now the
catch up commences.
Sam's
father actually created this TRON world, and also created “Clu”
and the character “Tron”. Kevin continues to explain to Sam,
that Clu's purpose was to help Kevin create a perfect world. The
problem was the perfect world was as he saw fit at that time, and Clu
disagreed with Kevin on different aspects which was essentially
causing a war.
What
brings us to this part of the journey -–is the prodigal son is now
reunited with his dad.
Sam
wants to get his dad back out of the TRON World, but Clu is in the
way, and Kevin wants to stay to help maintain peace in the world.
This
now leads to a series of events which brings us to the FINAL Battle!
Kevin,
Sam, and Quorra are now at the portal to bring them back to the “real
world” or in other words to bring them back to the promised land,
and Clu is there to stop this from happening, and of course Clu wants
to go to the promised land and bring his army he's been forming.
Kevin
-–the creator of the TRON world, is now weaker in his old age, and
uses the last amount of his energy to stop Clu and his army, and to
allow Sam and Quorra to return to the promised land to bring a new
hope.
The
summary of this, leaves us with a simple story of the Gospel of Jesus that
many would see throughout the Bible. I definitely saw this
throughout the movie, and am thankful for that. Whether that was
Disney's intent when doing this movie or not -–I'm not sure, but it
was clearly visible throughout the Movie.
