Adventures Of Thomas Thumb

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I recently watched a film at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, which was titled “The Secret Adventures of Thomas Thumb”. When I first heard the title, I thought that it would be some type of cartoon or animation. The film in fact was a mix between real actors and clay models. Thomas Thumb is the the result of an accident at an experimental sperm donation center. He lives with a very loving mother and father, until government agents come and take him away to a laboratory to do experiments on him. He eventually escapes with the help of some other monstrocities that he befriends in the lab. Although he is small, he somehow over comes the “big people” who captured him. The moral of the film was that, even small insignificant creatures can find a way to subvert those more bigger and more powerful that them.
The moral of the story had a strong presence throughout the movie, and I could tell that the writer of the story-line really wanted to get that through to the audience. I felt that the moral of the story was expressed mostly in the center of the movie, where “Jack the Giant Killer”(a friend that Tom made in his adventures) escaped the evil laboratory and killed a man who was trying to take him and Tom captive. Although Jack was nothing in size comparison to the man, he still killed him somehow and did not give in to the man although it would appear that Jack had no chance in winning against him.
The film also had it inconsistencies when it came to the moral of the story in some parts. Like when the government agents just strolled into Tom’s house and took him away from his loving family. What it basically comes down to is that Tom was small and they were big. There is pretty much nothing he could do at that point to prevent himself from being taken captive. Another example of an inconsistency was when Tom had to watch his father get beaten to death in a drunken fight his father had with a barfly. To...