Yeah, but that’s not what you said Dash stands in for. Being yourself is not how you treat ADHD.
The solution to not having enough time to cover that is to not make Dash stand-in for that. Which they don’t because that’s not what the movie is about.
The movie is about a stiffling system making the kids of a white middle class nuclear family struggle by forcing them to conform to a rigid (government-set) standard when they would thrive by self-expression and learning from their parents’ experience instead. Which neatly solves the problem of having to find a stand-in for mental health tratment by making the kids’ issues in the fictional universe be caused by the conformity, not by their superpowers.
Because the movie isn’t interested in the downsides of the powers. Dash getting bored because he’s fast isn’t presented as a struggle when he’s not forced to stay on the level of the normies. It’s not a day-to-day problem in the way The Thing being a monster made of rocks is a problem for him. It’s not caused by his powers, it’s caused by society trying to hold him back. Dash isn’t trans and he doesn’t have ADHD, he is a precocious kid being dragged back because the system is meant for people with less talent than he has.
That is what the movie is concerned with, and it overlaps with the ideology that it does. You are projecting what is at most a secondary concern (the feelings of otherness and isolation) onto the text because they are a more palatable interpretation.
Yeah, but that’s not what you said Dash stands in for. Being yourself is not how you treat ADHD.
The solution to not having enough time to cover that is to not make Dash stand-in for that. Which they don’t because that’s not what the movie is about.
The movie is about a stiffling system making the kids of a white middle class nuclear family struggle by forcing them to conform to a rigid (government-set) standard when they would thrive by self-expression and learning from their parents’ experience instead. Which neatly solves the problem of having to find a stand-in for mental health tratment by making the kids’ issues in the fictional universe be caused by the conformity, not by their superpowers.
Because the movie isn’t interested in the downsides of the powers. Dash getting bored because he’s fast isn’t presented as a struggle when he’s not forced to stay on the level of the normies. It’s not a day-to-day problem in the way The Thing being a monster made of rocks is a problem for him. It’s not caused by his powers, it’s caused by society trying to hold him back. Dash isn’t trans and he doesn’t have ADHD, he is a precocious kid being dragged back because the system is meant for people with less talent than he has.
That is what the movie is concerned with, and it overlaps with the ideology that it does. You are projecting what is at most a secondary concern (the feelings of otherness and isolation) onto the text because they are a more palatable interpretation.
Which, hey, is the point of this entire thread.