My shoddy explanation of the meaning of this movie

Rating: 8/10 (10 April 2019)

Throughout the movie, there are two "in your face" meanings of the story as a whole. During the film, you see the "brainless" scarecrow who feels he's very dumb, the "courage-less" lion who feels he lacks courage and the "heartless" tin man. But through their journey, you see the scarecrow, lion and and tin man display all their respective qualities that they feel they lack. At the end of the movie, during their encounter with the Wizard of Oz, he tells them that everything they had thought they lacked, they already had. This hammers home the two not-so-subtle meanings of the movie; Don't judge a book by it's cover and don't let anyone get you down and tell you what you can and can't do/are and aren't.