I don’t know if the makers intended this, but it shows how our world is running on malignant garbage lies sprayed on us from the top down.

Without spoiling it for you: several characters gradually discover that the story that is central to their lives, the story that is the engine of their actions and passions is entirely fake. What makes it extra hard to confront is that people they admire are representative of the fake story.

The enemy is not the enemy, the enemy was manufactured to give the state a reason to be. The enemy was systematically mistreated and fights, not because it’s evil, but because they were treated as evil for so long their reactions are now taken as proof that they are… evil.

Sounds familiar? If I were to design de-nazification classes for Israelis I’d include this children’s movie on the playlist.

Aside from the wonderfully essential political and psychological lessons, which are delivered in an elegant way, so they really land, there is also simply the story, the atmosphere of sailing ships, of crews working together, banding together, there is the endearing friendship between an adult male and young girl, both orphans. The girl is deliciously clever and eloquent, without it becoming unrealistic. Nobody in this story is some flawless superhero. No derivative Marvel slush for people who need the world as it is to keep making sense and stay unaltered. Yes, am unapologetically allergic to Marvel movies, because in my own little world the people who march off to the cinema for Marvel movies treat life as something that is NOT worth exploring and are boring beacons of conformity, covered in tatoos or other empty faux rebellion posturing or not.

I may sound like am boiling with anger, and I am, but at the same time I am also a sucker for romance, pirate ships as floating castles where souvereignty, friendship, honor codes and mission reign. I watch it, hug my son the whole time, get him snacks, and wonder if I should buy him a huge Playmobil pirate ship that kinda looks like the ship The Inevitable in the Sea Beast. Perhaps there should be no ‘but’ in that sentence. I am moved by orphans finding a mission and a home among a defiant crew on a mesmerizing sailing ship AND therefore I am disgusted by today’s world where there is little belonging, people I know hardly have any worthy mission and aren’t even looking for, nobody I know is questioning the stories we are spoon fed and if the media and mainstream politicians brand someone the enemy they shrug and accept that this is indeed the enemy.

For a children’s movie this packs a punch most adult movies lack. It’s like the Matrix meets Pirates of the Carribean or Master and Commander.

I am NOT a movie critic, I just share what hits me.

If you wanna join my Inevitable crew then you have the following options:

Visit me in Bratislava for a literary salon, O De Vi, to help work on a play (title: Slovak women are learning/Slovenky sa ucia), come be interviewed on video online, show up for my book club (first book we are reading is Prep, a story set before the smartphone apocalypse hit us) or just to hang out. Or because you want coaching without your typical frantically positive American energy, but real insight, real support and real warmth.

The characters in the Sea Beast were told to hate someone.

Who were you told to hate?

The characters decide to love fiercely.

Whom or what have you decided to love fiercely?