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The Message and Morale of the Movie is...

posted 12 years ago by timerty4
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The movie is like this story of one of the many lain back starseed from other more lain back planets who is birthed on Earth and then finds it hard to be restricted like the rest into doing the mentally-restricting social jobs in order to be seem as 'useful' to the society.

Throughout the movie, Dexter is seen taking it easy, going on holidays, using alcohol and drugs to relax. Dexter's father refers to him as a degenerate. His mother wished that he could do something to be more accomplished.

The movie shows Dexter to have much conflicts with those serious people that are opposite to him. Perhaps the Yin and Yang symbol mentioned in the film is referring to this recurring theme.

Much of Dexter and Emma's bff conversation with each other is about finding what jobs to do with their own lives and who to get it on with. The whole movie totally revolves around these 2 themes.

When Dexter finally found Emma to be his true love aka soul mate, he also found his true job to run a cafe. We know Dexter has lost something he really cherished when Emma died and he got really depressed and degenerated a while back into his younger days when he seem lost in the world.

Moral of the Movie

The movie has a message that seems to show that lain back people like Dexter who takes life more easily will make it till the end, and uptight people like Dexter's mom and Emma will get stressed quickly and die early.

[–] thecure-1 12 years ago

I thought Emma died because she got run over by a Bus not because she was stressed out!

[–] timerty4 12 years ago

Riding a bicycle on a busy street will create much stress to the rider.

And besides, she seem very distracted and stressed out when she was riding the bicycle.

[–] andyroo316 12 years ago

David Nicholls (writer of the novel AND the screenplay) has said that the moral is simply "Don't waste nearly 20 years faffing about and try to realise what's important sooner rather than later". It's a pretty simply message and all the more tragic for the fact they only had a couple of years together despite the fact they COULD have been together longer had they got their problems sorted out earlier.

Nothing to do with what you're talking about, really. Both were flawed in opposite ways, so I agree with the yin/yang theme and can't believe I hadn't picked that up before, but everything else has been proved wrong by the one and only author of both versions himself.

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[–] timerty4 12 years ago

No, who cares what the author thinks? There is no such thing as wasting time in life but discovery. Bad moral from the author! Twilight is smarter about life!

The morale of the story is that it is better to be alone than be with an uptight girlfriend who is too self-conscious about herself to care about her man, so self-conscious that she got distracted on the road enough to get killed!