A Review Break 4 Casting Directors: Tintin

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2015)

On the meaning, worldview, characters' behavior and interpretation.
On Meaning: describing what the story is trying to say. It appears to me that the story has a good message, and one that I picked up came from the scene when Tintin was sitting in a lawn chair discouraged from the looks of it as the captain approached him a pep-talk of encouragement. In that I got to thinking about all that went on in the film, and this is what the story is trying to say, don't send out the wrong signals of failure, and don't give up on the journey in search for answers.
On Worldview: describing what values are in use by the characters or in the plot. One value that I picked out in the movie 'Tintin' that is used by the characters are the following: Abundance, Accomplishment, Achievement, Activeness, Advancement, Adventure, Ambition, Aggressiveness, Agility, Amusement, Boldness, Challenge, Competition, Discovery, Drive, Eagerness, Encouragement, Endurance, energy, focus, humor, outdoors, skillfulness, wisdom, zeal, winning, and wealth. What brought me to this is that the characters was always fighting in various scenes. The captain seemed to have been fight for his ship and gold in his hallucinations, Tintin was fighting for the answer to write his newspaper story. Moreover; one scene that pointed this out for me was when the captain encourages Tintin with these lines, "...fight for want you want."
Discussing the characters' behavior based upon biblical principles. The biblical principles that Tintin's behavior reminded me of perseverance/focus - 'seek and you will find.' Because all throughout the scenes Tintin was always searching from something and he was focused on finding it, whether if it was as simple as a magnifying glass to something much harder like the secret poems with that revealed the hidden numbers when pieced together in which he always found what he was looking for. The biblical principles of the captain's behavior reminded me of edification/temperance 'Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.' and 'Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more' why I chose these for the captain is whenever he wasn't drunk, he seemed to be in his right mind and would say words that would lift another character up as this would confound you after seeing him doing foolish thing after drinking alcohol. Two other character's behavior that remind me of biblical principles is the two cops (Thomson and Thompson), as they showed sympathy/Justice/Mercy 'To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.' the scene that gives an example of this is when Thomson and Thompson are in the library of wallets with the thief that has been pick-pocketing people searching through different wallets, and both cops aren't even aware that the owner is a thief that stole all those wallets.
On Interpretation: describing what the movie means to you personally. What the movie means to me personally is don't quit on your journey in finding answers, and you will find the answers that you have been searching for being uncovered as you write your story through the adventures that life takes you. The biblical scripture that I can connect this film to comes out of Philippians 3:12-16 as it says, "I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision—you'll see it yet! Now that we're on the right track, let's stay on it."
The color and animation looked beautiful.