We were talking in media and society again about something called "Wizard of Oz Syndrome" which is the idea that humanity is basically good and that they only need to look inside themselves for the truth. This is a concept that I talked about earlier in another post about the worldviews that some artists put in their works. This happened in the Wizard of Oz with humanism. Whether or not this was intentional is unknown and also not the point. The point is however, that humanism has been portrayed as basically good in film for a long time and I want to share with you a movie trailer that has this concept that is not the Wizard of Oz, because of course that would be too easy. The movie I found was The Ultimate Gift and as good of a movie as it may be it shows that we are good but out of practice at it therefore we must learn to be good again through many different tests or "gifts".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwXe5eKZr6M
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