The Incredibles Essay
The movie, The Incredibles, is about a family of superheroes, the incredibles who are forced to act like common citizens and then must save the world from a supervillain. This movie creates the question, is it better for us to give our resources to everyone equally or it better for us to give the resources the the exceptional people? There are many reasons for both sides of the argument, but it would be better to provide the resources equally to everyone. If we were to give a large portion of the resources to the most exceptional people, we would be able to develope these people even further and they would most likely be able to do things later in life that benefits the rest of society greatly. If we were to give out the resources equally,
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Early in the movie, the father of the family, Bob, wants his son, Dash, to be able to compete on the school’s track team. The only issue with this is that Dash’s superpower is that he can run inhumanely fast. There would be no one who would be able to beat him in these races. Dash’s mom, Helen, believes that Dash should not be able to compete because it would not be fair to anyone else who is competing. The parent fight throughout the movie about being allowed to use these powers to be excellente. At the end of the movie, the parents compromise and Dash is allowed to compete, but not allowed to win. This question is also relevant because of the supervillain, Syndrome. When Syndrome is telling Bob his plan, he tells him he is going to sell technology that can make them like superheros. He plans to do this because he wants to make everyone special, and therefore, no one will be special. This is very interesting because the movie seems to suggest that excellent people will always try to keep it so there are always excellent people and average people, like the family of superheros do in this movie by defeating Syndrome, while average people try to put everyone on a level playing field, like Syndrome plans to do. At the end of the movie Dash is running track and Syndrome has been defeated so it appears as if the movie sides with excellence over egalitarianism. This movie dramatically changed how I viewed this question. Before
Early in the movie, the father of the family, Bob, wants his son, Dash, to be able to compete on the school’s track team. The only issue with this is that Dash’s superpower is that he can run inhumanely fast. There would be no one who would be able to beat him in these races. Dash’s mom, Helen, believes that Dash should not be able to compete because it would not be fair to anyone else who is competing. The parent fight throughout the movie about being allowed to use these powers to be excellente. At the end of the movie, the parents compromise and Dash is allowed to compete, but not allowed to win. This question is also relevant because of the supervillain, Syndrome. When Syndrome is telling Bob his plan, he tells him he is going to sell technology that can make them like superheros. He plans to do this because he wants to make everyone special, and therefore, no one will be special. This is very interesting because the movie seems to suggest that excellent people will always try to keep it so there are always excellent people and average people, like the family of superheros do in this movie by defeating Syndrome, while average people try to put everyone on a level playing field, like Syndrome plans to do. At the end of the movie Dash is running track and Syndrome has been defeated so it appears as if the movie sides with excellence over egalitarianism. This movie dramatically changed how I viewed this question. Before