The new Mary Poppins film either has a pro-socialism subtext or a pro-capitalism message, depending on who you ask.
Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns(PG) opened in December to generally positive reviews and has grossed more than $100 million domestically at the box office. It also was named one of Crosswalk’s 10 best family movies of 2018.
The story follows Mary Poppins as she returns to Cherry Tree Lane in London to care for the three children of Michael Banks, who is facing eviction. The film, of course, has plenty of joy-filled songs and a happy ending, too.
Yet some commentators and critics believe the movie carries a message about economics and the structure of government.
Armond White, a writer for National Review Online, believes the film promotes socialism. Minor characters in the film, he notes, campaign “for underpaid workers.” The movie, he added, carries a “nasty political undercurrent” similar to “the #Resistance mood that has overtaken Broadway and Hollywood.”
“Though pretending to be innocuous family entertainment,” he wrote, “the knock-off tunes have a faintly repressive, pedantic note, especially in [composer Marc] Shaiman’s balloon-song finale ‘Nowhere to Go but Up.’ To careful listeners, it sounds like showbiz Stalinism: ‘The past is the past / It lives on as history / Let the past take a bow / Forever is now.’ Why should a family-movie…
… Read More
Click here to read the rest of the story from our content source/partners – Christian Headlines.