How to Train your Dragon?

If you came here expecting that there is going to be some interesting story in this post of mine, you are wrong. The title – How to Train Your Dragon is a movie released in 2010. If you came here expecting to read a review of the movie, you might get disappointed for this is not just the review. This post is about my learning from the movie – How to Train Your Dragon

I have been watching quite lot movies since a couple of days and since those are not the newly released ones, I didn’t feel like reviewing them on my other blog – Finix Post. But then, documenting your experience, learning and sharing are necessary.

The movie is about a teenager named Hiccup who lived in a hypothetical place named as Vikings. The tribe that dwelled in that place was in war with the dragons that used to steal their food and kill their people. All Vikings were known for their bravery and were adept at fighting dragons – except one who also happened to be the son of the chief.

Hiccup was often laughed at for his timid behaviour. People thought he was too weak to fight dragons and that made Hiccup restless and one day he shot a dragon. While none believed that he actually did it, he went on to find that dragon which should have been trapped in the net shot by him. But when he found the dragon and tried to kill him, he found that he just didn’t want to kill.

Soon, he became friends with the dragon and started training him... flying with him. This enhanced his knowledge about usual behaviour of dragons which was highly misinterpreted by the Vikings. Dragons were not the dangerous ones... they just longed for love and got scared and tried to defend themselves when they’re attacked.

Isn’t that how all animals are? Why that is some people manage to keep even the lions as pets and some are protesting to kill all stray dogs for they’re too dangerous? Whenever a stray dog bites a child, does anyone try to figure out why the child got bitten at the first place? Who was actually at fault?

People get hurt all the time. It is amazing that when a human hurts other human, you file a court case and then try to figure out who was at fault but when an animal hurts human, the animal becomes the culprit automatically. Isn’t that hypocritical?

Well, that’s who we are... We are all a hypocrite set of living things. If not, people not have been asking to kill all the strays just because they are “dangerous” to normal people and just because humans have that power.

Vikings had the power to kill dragons... but Hiccup was someone who realized what all went wrong and fixed all of it. I wish someone like that could use his magic wand on this world...

Movie Verdict: It is interesting and fun to watch. The screenplay is really good and you would love watching it. My Ratings: 4/5