I loved Wreck-it Ralph coz he’s the bad guy. The bad guy who doesn’t mind being bad if it is the only way he can be good. But this time, he appears to evolve into a clingy cry-baby whom shies away from adventures. He has become the boring card-punching 9-5 worker that is afraid of challenges and any disruption to his mundane and stable life. At the meantime Penelope has instead, evolved into the opposite of Ralph, cracked out of her shell and became the real bad ass she has been all this while.
I liked the movie still, love all the quirks of the internet, how they animated and humanized internet as a living organism. Would have taken a lot of technical explanation to describe how the internet works, in words. I also learnt a thing or two about how spam works, and how all that spam could translate into real money. But ultimately someone’s gotta pay. Clicks only pay as much as the real money the sites are going to get from the merchant, and the merchants won’t continue investing in this gig unless it draws real sales. But hey, not a shabby way to earn some moolah, especially if you do have good content.
Oh and the biggest thing that I could resonate with in this film, is the clever wordplay of “insecurity”. The movie has depicted insecurity correctly as a virus that multiplies itself and creates a real havoc. The monster says out the most ridiculous words, describes the most unlikely scenarios amidst of its insecurity, and somehow deep inside, it believes that there might be a hint of truth in it’s prediction. There is no way to break this virus unless the cure came from the source itself. The person must believe that their assumptions are ridiculous and not worth pursuing, and by then only is it possible for the person to be free from the virus of insecurity.
Overall it was a very enjoyable movie, and I think that sight of so many smoky Ralph would be something to remind myself when a seed of insecurity and suspicion arise again in the future.
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