Review of Sky High (2005) by Ryana — 25 Jun 2018

Sky High – the movie that was my favourite for a while when I was young. Now that I’ve seen it again, I laughed at a few moments and was okay for the movie to be for the most part. This “for the most part” is where I kind of regret seeing the movie. From a second watch, the movie had some questionable morals of the story such as the simplicity of life and the quickness life actually hits you. From what I’ve gathered from the movie, it’s okay that you are naïve with perceptions of reality. The movie tended told me that everyone’s going to directly tell me their intentions and be obvious with whom they are. I get it. It’s a kids movie. I was a kid when I watched it. It’s not true. Trust may be built from being together for an arbitrary length of time (in the movie, 8-9 years – I don’t know what grade high school starts there), but to gain trust after it was lost should be better than “yes I know what you did, I will now realize your intentions are better now that you’ve spammed me with phone calls and this person that talked for you at a party is actually evil”. Situations in real life this simplistic don’t occur. Nothing’s cut and dry as to what needs to be done for someone. There will be situations where realizing something by luck will be much too slow to say save a life, fix a relationship, or save one’s own life. Deeper questioning and more time are required.

To get to the bottom of someone’s problems, one needs time and effort. It’s not a “here I am, an obvious bad guy/girl that will happen to fix your life,” it should be a deep heart-to-heart conversation/dialogue talk that truly tries to get problems. Seeing reality as finding a solution to an immediate problem does not help core issues that one or another individual may have. Fixing core problems will not happen by happenchance. The more people think that an issue will resolve itself or in real life be more problematic, be solved by someone else (the bystander effect), the less likely the issue will be resolved. In the movie, the character Warren Peace is at odds with the main character Will Stronghold because of family issues. The two of them eventually become best friends. How? They won some sort of heroes vs. villains thing, then Will was sulky about having his best friend walk out on him and mentioned it to Warren how he’s not going to homecoming, and now suddenly there’s an evil person that’s turning everyone into babies, they’re all buddy-buddy. Evil is an odd choice to bring people together, but it’s the way that it did bring heroes together, yay! Now I have no idea how to succeed with life! But for real, to fix, mend, or make a relationship, true conversations are needed. If no choices are made by an individual (say me), and I decide to wait for a shining moment, there is a chance that I will be passed up. Why? There’s no time left. People will not generally want to inconvenience me.

I would love to rat out this movie and say that it has caused all of my life problems, but if I, myself, am not willing to fix my own problems or become conscious of my reality, I can’t really say that I have never played victim before. What is my suggestion to watching a movie like this? Watch it, think what you think about it and if you need guidance following the movie, ask for it/look for it sooner than later. It may not be minor and it may need time to fix. I understand if you have not made any sense out of this, but keeping shallow perceptions of reality will only hinder you later in life. Overall, I’ll put this at 5.8/10.