The Wizard Of Oz

The Wizard of Oz
I saw the Wizard of Oz when I was staying overnight at my grandmas, and had never seen a movie in black and white before, i found it rather odd and was relieved when it changed and became colourful. I loved the film and still do, but the older i get the more it dawns on me that Dorothy in her glittering ruby slippers is in fact a little bit silly.

A question for Dorothy....
Why on earth if you dream of over the rainbow for so long and actually get it, and have the luck of entering the colourful emerald city, would you click your tiny slippers and fly back to black and white Kansas?

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Had that been me, i would have had the fantastic Wizard to magic my family out of Kansas and into Oz so I brought them out of the dreary Kansas and still had the delights of them living with me in colourful Oz. I think the film demonstrates well the human ability to always want more, yet never be truly satisfied even if we get it. Take the main characters of the film for example:

The Tinman
Nice enough though he is, the Tinman wants a heart. This seems like a pointless excersize as he is "alive" yet has no organs or blood whcih need a heart to make work, and he is capable with loving without a heart anyway.

The Scarecrow.
Scarecrow wants a brain. However agin this seems to make little sense as scarecrow can walk and talk and has intellegence and he has no organs and so nothing for the brain to control.

The Cowardly Lion
The cowardly lion wants courage. But since when has being scared of things been a bad thing anyway? On the contrary its smart, its a survival technique and fear means we are aware of our surroundings.

Dorothy
Ends up not wanting over the rainbow afterall.

Big question...
Are we as a human race, so dissatisfied with what we are given in life? And do we always want the materialistic things?

A big answer...
As a society we have become far more materialistic. Standard of people now very rarely comes from how good and true a person they are but rather how much money they earn, what they have to their name and which designer label they are in. We revel in ownership, we live in money. We forget that we came into the world with nothing, and we will leave it the same, so all in between is a bonus. Food, water, shelter- most important and some people dont even get that. I know im a hypocrite typing all of this from under my duvet with my laptop, but its true. The American Dream (that any person can be aspire to be more, and have more) more often than not ends up in a lifetimes supply of disappointment.

Keep Smiling sweeties :)
Love, Tutti-Frutti
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