About halfway through the movie, there's one word that kept popping into my head — "hope." I kept my mouth shut, and when it ended, I turned to my 9-year-old and asked him what one word he would use to describe the film's message, and he looked at me and said, "hope!" It was a proud mom moment, but it was also true.
At one point in the film, the camera pans to an Albert Einstein quote saying, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." And that is truly the basis of the film. There is so much negativity in this world, but if we let ourselves believe that things can be better, if we let ourselves imagine a better place, we can actually achieve it. It is a wonderfully positive message that is sprinkled throughout the film and summed up nicely at the end when the baton is handed off to the next generation — a way of saying that children are the future and our only hope (I had visions of Princess Leia's message to Obiwan Kenobi multiple times!)
