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“TROLLS”  

On November 13, 2016 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

 

My wife and I went to see the movie “Trolls” last night.  She initially wanted to see “Hacksaw Ridge,” which I had heard good things about.  However, I wanted something lighter, due to the rather heavy political events that occurred this week.

“Trolls” was not (in my opinion) a great movie, and it was a lot more intense than I thought it would be.  (Perhaps I made it so, because of the self I took into the cinema.)  However, while it wasn’t a great movie, it was a good one.

So what is the movie about?  It is about trolls—small creatures who have an outsized penchant for happiness.  They sing and dance and hug a lot.

But, of course, to have a story, you have to have villains.  Perpetual happiness doesn’t make for a story.  The villains in “Trolls” are the Bergens—very large creatures who live in stone cities, and who have a huge capacity for misery and cruelty.  However, they can taste happiness one time per year.  They do this by eating a troll.  Since the trolls and their tree are caged in the middle of the Bergens’ city, it looks pretty hopeless for the trolls as the movie begins.

It is the festival day for consuming trolls.  We are introduced to the king of Bergen and to his young son, Prince Gristle, Jr.  The young prince is about to have his first taste of troll and, therefore, of happiness.  However, unbeknownst to the Bergens, the Trolls have tunneled beyond the city walls and are escaping.  “No troll left behind!” shouts the king.  Sure enough, they all escape.

I’ll stop there with the plot.  There are a number of plot twists, and I don’t want to ruin your enjoyment of the movie.  You really should see it.

However, I do want to mention a few of the questions that the movie invited me to ponder.

What is happiness?  Is it really what “everybody knows” it is?  How do we know that what we know is true?  Is happiness merely a matter of consuming?  Is it fleeting?  What is the role of togetherness in happiness?

How do we handle radical danger?  Do we run and hide?  Do we become hermit survivalists?  Or do we risk ourselves to save others.  Do we let our own past wrongs or those done to us or those we love determine our present, our future, our character?

Do we simply give up on our enemies?  Do we assume that they are irredeemable?

Everything we do, and see, and hear—even Disney movies—change us in some way, however slightly that may be.  My sweetheart and I came away from the movie with a greater determination to recognize our happiness, and to be happy.

At home, we enjoyed a nice breakfast at 7:30 p.m.  While she was fixing our meal, I moved some of the furniture, and set my laptop up in the living room.  We went on You Tube, and I found some websites that gave instructions about simple dance steps.

So, here were two hybrids, a cross between Bergens and Trolls, two old people trying to learn to dance.  We sang along with some old love songs, and we hugged before we went to bed.

And, yes: We were very happy indeed!

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