North: Difference between revisions

* [[Broken Aesop]]: The film's message is ostensibly about the value of family and accepting one's parents. It does nothing to convince the audience that North had any logic in going back to them.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Everyone in the movie aside from North, his mentor figure, and the [[Unfortunate Implications|whitebread family he's with]] are boorish, insensitive, loud, selfish, ethnocentric, and incapable of showing sincerity. And arguably, none of them are really that much better.

* [[Critical Research Failure]]: Just about every depiction of every ethnicity. {{spoiler|Justified because [[Invoked Trope|it's all in North's imagination]] and that's all he knows.}}

* [[Doing It for the Art]]: Reiner wanted to create a touching, personal fable; his very own ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.