“film majors” mad at me for calling how to train your dragon the pinnacle of cinema how does it feel to know i’m better at your degree than you
Ah yes, the pinnacle of cinema. What was the moral of that story again? *checks notes* Ah yes, if you severely injure and kidnap an endangered species, Stockholm Syndrome will turn it into a pet you can use to vaporise people
#listen i know this is a shitpost but im gonna be real for a second#did you even WATCH the movie sdfghjklfghwnkdks??????#like. the whole point is that hiccup screws up#by injuring toothless bc he’s blinded by fear and hatred as a result#of the beliefs of the society he lives in. and when he realizes this#he does everything he can to fix the mistake he made earn the trust of the dragons#he once wanted to kill. unlearn his harmful mistaken beliefs about them. and finally teach#the rest of his community to realize they’ve been mistaken and are#hurting the dragons unfairly#its true that toothless is reliant on hiccup to fly and cant survive in the wild#as a result but its made very clear that this is something#hiccup regrets and understands the seriousness of his actions. despite being a kid’s movie.#and something that i love about it is that although toothless forgives hiccup and#hiccup forgives his father for their poor treatment in the past#there’s no narrative of being expected to forgive your abusers or people who#hurt you. both hiccup and his dad say ‘i did this’ when they realize they screwed up and#both of them take action to do better visibly in the film. hiccup helps toothless fly again#and stoick creates a safe haven for the dragons in the village that once#hunted and killed them. and toothless and hiccup both CHOOSE#to love the people who once hurt them because of this. but they never actually say they#forgive them. the film does an amazing job of making it clear that#1. someone who hurt you should understand what they did wrong and#make that clear to you and they have to show that through both#their words AND their actions and 2. you are not required to forgive them for#hurting you in the past even if your relationship improves#and i think that’s a really good and important thing to have in an all ages fun popular film#like that is THEE point of the movie that is THEE message how did you miss it that hard (tags via)
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