Flicka Movie Review

We recently rented a movie called, Flicka. We had heard this was a family friendly movie. I suppose if you are a family that does not believe in respecting your father than this is the movie for you. I was disgusted by the themes and current of the film. The father is a hard working rancher who sacrifices to send his daughter to a private school so that she will be able to go to college. The daughter does not appreciate the sacrifice, does not commit to her education and is asked not to return back to school. When she gets home she continually violates house rules an disrespects her fathers wishes. She endangers herself by disobeying him, she lies to him and sneaks around behind his back. When she gets caught and he issues consequences to her the entire rest of the family turns on the father to the point of physically challenging him by pushing and shoving him. The daughters disobedience ends up causing a lot of worry and expense to others. The father did not do anything wrong in the entire movie. He should have had his children's respect and love. His daughter should have welcomed his loving protection and understand her fathers desire to keep her safe. Instead the father is scorned for fulfilling his role. Even the wife does not honor the husband. She goes behind his back and manipulates him to the advantage of the child. The father, of course, ends up apologizing to the child and asking for forgiveness. For what I have no idea.

This is a recurrent theme in movies and literature of our day. The children always know better than the parents. Despite not listening to the parents, the children save the day and the parents often have to apologize to the children for not listening to their superior wisdom. There never seems to be any serious consequences for refusing to heed the council of those wiser and more experienced in life. The result in the movies is of course a happy ending. In real life the results of such behavior has far more serious consequences and those consequences can last a life time.