The Essence of Decency

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2007)

Easily, the sweetest, most charming, and most thoroughly optimistically American movie you will ever see, The Wizard of Oz stands as a testament to the creativity and decency that was Hollywood seventy years ago. The film version of the Baum novel captures the best of what we are as a people and as a species. I can find no flaw in the film.
My suggestion for you--if you haven't seen TWOZ in awhile--is to grab a restored copy from the late '90s. But if you have an old tape from CBS, pop it in anyway. When the news blares that the price of a barrel of oil is topping $100+ or the body of a baby was found in a dumpster or some other ghastly event, big or small, chills you to the core, watch Dorothy and her thoroughly human compadres go on their quest to find what they already had in the first place.
Take heart. There really is good in people.
And The Wizard of Oz reveals it to you, if you have patience and faith.