| | It's kinda borderline. It does promote faithfulness in marriage and other good traits. The beginning part of them trying to force him out of his house could be considered anti-capitalism, but, on the other hand, eminent domain was only supposed to be used for public use, but it appeared that some company wanted the land and he wasn't willing to sell so they went and tried to make him look like he was getting senile or something so they could take him away and use his land, which is little better than the government doing the same to someone with the EPA and they, like the Obamacare panels, ruled him a burden on society rather than a human being with value. Also, it could possibly have an environmental theme, as they did try to save a rare bird. On the other hand, with the kind of brain to develop the talking device for the dogs, Mentz could have done other things with his life than spend all of those years trying to get that bird and be willing to take her away from her children. Also, I don't think the movie is really anti-capitalistic as it was left open if Mentz was good or bad until the moment he went after the bird and even went so far as to try and kill Russel and Fredrickson to do it. Also, on the other hand, Fredrickson was a sort of father figure to Russel as his father was never around. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 20:15, 13 October 2017 (EDT) | | It's kinda borderline. It does promote faithfulness in marriage and other good traits. The beginning part of them trying to force him out of his house could be considered anti-capitalism, but, on the other hand, eminent domain was only supposed to be used for public use, but it appeared that some company wanted the land and he wasn't willing to sell so they went and tried to make him look like he was getting senile or something so they could take him away and use his land, which is little better than the government doing the same to someone with the EPA and they, like the Obamacare panels, ruled him a burden on society rather than a human being with value. Also, it could possibly have an environmental theme, as they did try to save a rare bird. On the other hand, with the kind of brain to develop the talking device for the dogs, Mentz could have done other things with his life than spend all of those years trying to get that bird and be willing to take her away from her children. Also, I don't think the movie is really anti-capitalistic as it was left open if Mentz was good or bad until the moment he went after the bird and even went so far as to try and kill Russel and Fredrickson to do it. Also, on the other hand, Fredrickson was a sort of father figure to Russel as his father was never around. [[User:PatriotMongoose|PatriotMongoose]] ([[User talk:PatriotMongoose|talk]]) 20:15, 13 October 2017 (EDT) |
| | + | "Up" is actually on this list, you do make some good points on the film being borderline. Yes, they try to save the bird, but it's not really in an environmental way, it's more in a human saving a pet way as Russell found this specific bird, and he was saving that bird because it was like his friend, not because it was an endangered bird. Plus Mentz was almost like a poacher, so I do really think the film could be considered environmental. --[[User:GrantN|GrantN]] ([[User talk:GrantN|talk]]) 21:12, 13 October 2017 (EDT) |