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What the Movie is Really All About---

posted 11 years ago by hisgrandmogulhighness
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Just finished watching the new DVD released by Warner Bros . . . (though I had seen the film years before) . . .
They have to shut-up that kid . . . he has to be eliminated . . . he has to be sacrificed . . .

Brilliantly done movie . . . Ruth Roman is a High Priestess . . .

Those are not his real parents (which is alluded to in the film) . . .

Who are his "real" parents?

Zeus and Thetis . . . Who?

Mr. Woodry nails the window shut, then the door cruelly locked--this bedroom has become Tommy's tomb . . .

Ruth Roman . . . Roman=Classical; Ruth--her story in the Bible (she actually saves the boy) . . .

Tommy, trapped high, high above on that collapsing beam . . . and falls to safety . . .

They weren't able to accomplish their mission . . .

Why must little Tommy be sacrificed?

Whatever the fates have decreed . . .

The film is a masterpiece, and one must spend time watching it--it is thrilling . . .

Tommy survives . . .

A side note: This was the only masterpiece movie that Bobby Driscoll was given . . .

[–] RobbieCalifornia 9 years ago

Thanks for your comments! Very much appreciated here.

[–] hisgrandmogulhighness 9 years ago

Dear RobbieCalifornia:

Thanks, I appreciate your support. There's more. . . actually, much more . . . Bobby's pseudo-mother (Barbara Hale) is a sister of Ruth Roman (all right--if Zeus and Thetis are little Tommy's "real" parents, then could it be that Barbara and Ruth are sisters (in the Crystal cave, amongst the Nereids, daughters of Nereus--the old man of the sea-yes, for Ruth & Paul Stewart are Zeus and Thetis, and must commit the sacrifice--Barbara acts as Tommy's, shall we say, foster mother, for her more august sister). Yes, exactly . . .

One must read this film metaphysically . . . whoever put this together created a true winner . . . inricate . . .

That scene in which Tommy is sitting at the kitchen table, and we see a full plate of luscious looking food--Tommy's dinner--or, shall we say, his final meal before his demise? Food (fattening up) for the slaughter that's soon to come.

Does little Tommy, so threatened by so many (with no one to turn to) ever catch on to the terrible danger he's in? . . . yes, on the fire-escape, on the railing, with Paul . . . Ruth gives words of encouragement . . .Tommy then now knows he has his mother's support, and he flies up the escape and away from Paul, who, of course, follows--ultimately going to his own doom (a magnificent shot of mighty Zeus, having gone too far, falling to his demise amongst the wreckage)!

Masterfully done . . .

Is the setting truly in New York? Or does all the action take place amongst the ruins of Olympus?

Depends on how one interprets things . . .

One of the most intriguing films every done!