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 PrintableVersion The Simpsons MovieWe love you, NedTHE SIMPSONS MOVIE This film is the long-awaited cinematic companion to the television series that has been a favourite of all age groups for the last two decades, a satire based on common perceptions of contemporary America. The central focus is, obviously, the Simpsons, the producer’s take on an average, suburban American family. Using the slightly crude humour that is typical of Matt Groening’s series, it tells the story of how Homer Simpson causes his town to be shut off from the rest of the world, his subsequent exile with his family and his attempts to save both his home and his marriage. As a family, the Simpsons demonstrate the imperfect nature of human relationships, perhaps too well. Homer especially acts carelessly as a father and husband most of the time. For example, when his son Bart upsets him in some way, he will use physical violence to unleash his frustration upon him, thus causing Bart to seek a paternal figure elsewhere — in the character of Ned Flanders, the evangelical Christian nextdoor neighbour. Flanders may, in part, be meant as a mockery of committed Christians, but he still shows Bart real Christian love and a gracious attitude to all those around him. Flanders may be a caricature, but imagine if all Christians showed his kind of love to even the worst of neighbours. OB1&NE1© Evangelicals Now - September 2007 |
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