Analysis Of Tip And Oh The Boov's Home

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The film poster, at some point, also underlines the utopian impulse and endorses hope. The image of Tip and Oh the Boov sitting on top of the car against the evening sky and looking at the setting sun strongly contains the utopian energy. As if they are waiting for something to come, something which has not yet happened, the future, the bright future. The image of the sun always illustrates hope. Even if the sun is now setting, tomorrow it will come back with its brightest light. The film title, Home, sort of reminds us to the homeland, a term Bloch invented to refer to the condition where one is completely aware of who and what they are and what is more important is that they are free from alienation (1376). The party at the end of Home, somewhat, …show more content…

His past experience apparently has made him value hope more. On their escape from the execution, Gribble and Milo are stranded somewhere. As Milo reminds Gribble that his mom does not have much time, Gribble seems to have lost the spirit to continue their plan of rescuing Milo’s mom for he does not want to go up and get killed by the Martian. However, Milo all of sudden calls Gribble with his real name, George and takes Gribble’s old T-shirt out. Gribble is surprised and takes the T-shirt from Milo and he starts to cry. Gribble tells Milo how his mom gets abducted. He tries to show Milo how unfair life is to him for he was a good kid. Gribble was too late to save his mom because he did not what the extracted machine done to his mom and what he knows is that he was too late to save her. At this point, Gribble realizes that Milo has no idea on how the extracted machine works. Milo does not know that the machine will eventually kill her mom. Gribble does not want this to happen. At least, it does not happen to his friend, Milo. Therefore, Gribble makes up his mind and agrees to continue the plan to rescue Milo’s mom. In Blochian perspective, the way Gribble changes his mind is related to the development of the most important expectant emotion, hope. Gribble is aware that he can still save a mother, the mother of his friend, Milo. It does …show more content…

Reunification with mothers (Mars Needs Moms and Home) and friends (WALL∙E) for the most become the celebrated moment. Interestingly, such family value does not apply to humans but also the alien. In his observation on Disney and Pixar films, Booker argues that the promotion of family values has been a significant focus of the American children’s films nowadays which is also supported by “the political potency of the idea of ‘family values’ in recent American public life” and that “families are envisioned as the chief audiences for the films” (185). Children’s films in this case have constantly imposed this certain ideology turning it into common sense. Such films certainly, among other things, can be considered as the ideological state apparatus in Althusserian term. Further Booker also notes that the meaning family here does not necessarily consist of parents (of opposite sexes) and their biological children. As long as a group of people can function as a family, they can be taken as ‘family’

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