Tron: Legacy
Dec. 14th, 2013 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethJust finished watching Tron:Legacy
Anyone else find that ending really upsetting?
Because Flynn had two kids, Sam the bio kid and Clu the AI kid. Clu did everything ever asked of him. He double checked it was still his job, and instead of being told 'hey, no, new job, new specs, lets work on this together' Flynn told him perfection was still his job. So he kept doing his job. He is not the bad guy. He's the kid who went to work every day. Sam's the slacker kid who never got around to it and just uploads other people's work. Why does Sam get the girl and the shiny happy ending, and Clu get blown up by his dad?
I know he chases 'perfection' by blowing up a ton of programs, but Sam blows up programs, Quorra blows up programs, Clu mostly tries to give them new jobs. And a ticket to a new much less crappy world.
Also, earlier in the film they used the word 'reintegration' for what would happen if Flynn stopped Clu. If Clu was proper the other half of Flynn and they got back together to make a newer wiser creator, that would be cool. Then the story would be about two ways of being a bad dad, being too much about enforcing perfection and being too much about backing off and leaving the kid alone, both ways leading to Sam growing up alone. But no. They just did the matter/antimatter thing. Everything went boom.
Did they just destroy the whole grid?
The hell just happened?
I mean, if the story is about parenting, wtf up with that ending? If the story was not about parenting, wtf up with any of it?
So if you take it any serious, then the ending is upsetting. But if you don't it's just, like, that was a shiny screensaver, but I had better things to do with those two hours.
Which, of course, is why I only just now watched it, rather than at the cinema or on DVD. Because I had heard it was made of wtf at best.
Blergh.
Anyone else find that ending really upsetting?
Because Flynn had two kids, Sam the bio kid and Clu the AI kid. Clu did everything ever asked of him. He double checked it was still his job, and instead of being told 'hey, no, new job, new specs, lets work on this together' Flynn told him perfection was still his job. So he kept doing his job. He is not the bad guy. He's the kid who went to work every day. Sam's the slacker kid who never got around to it and just uploads other people's work. Why does Sam get the girl and the shiny happy ending, and Clu get blown up by his dad?
I know he chases 'perfection' by blowing up a ton of programs, but Sam blows up programs, Quorra blows up programs, Clu mostly tries to give them new jobs. And a ticket to a new much less crappy world.
Also, earlier in the film they used the word 'reintegration' for what would happen if Flynn stopped Clu. If Clu was proper the other half of Flynn and they got back together to make a newer wiser creator, that would be cool. Then the story would be about two ways of being a bad dad, being too much about enforcing perfection and being too much about backing off and leaving the kid alone, both ways leading to Sam growing up alone. But no. They just did the matter/antimatter thing. Everything went boom.
Did they just destroy the whole grid?
The hell just happened?
I mean, if the story is about parenting, wtf up with that ending? If the story was not about parenting, wtf up with any of it?
So if you take it any serious, then the ending is upsetting. But if you don't it's just, like, that was a shiny screensaver, but I had better things to do with those two hours.
Which, of course, is why I only just now watched it, rather than at the cinema or on DVD. Because I had heard it was made of wtf at best.
Blergh.
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Date: 2013-12-16 11:54 pm (UTC)