One of the Top Must-See Movies for 2011 has to be TRON - Legacy. The amazing gaming scenes, the mind-blowing score, and CG graphical "actor-tweaking" are enough reason to enjoy the film on their own. Add a top-notch script, and some nifty acting, and you have a real feast for the senses.
The film also raises some interesting metaphysical questions, flirting with our notions of God, and God's relationship to his creations - that is, to the world he has created and all those who live in it. The world of cyberspace is very much the "creation" of the builder, but it is far from the "perfect world" that it strives to be. As well, some interesting parallels exist in the Father/Son relationship to some of our own religious beliefs.
Though the world inside the computer is sterile by comparison, as well as lacking the lush, tropical vegetation and the switching between the "inside/outside" locales of "Avatar," the special effects in Tron: Legacy are amazing. If anything, the sterility lends itself to one of the major themes, that of striving for perfection.
In Tron: Legacy, the very sterility that, particularly, the ISO programs associate with perfection makes an interesting comment on the nature of perfection. Surely true perfection cannot be so stagnant and passionless? At least, one would hope that is the case, or at least make one wonder if such perfection is worth trying to achieve.
Though there is much to this film to engage the mind and the senses, and much to think about long after the film is over, Tron: Legacy is still a "ripping good yarn" and well worth the price of admission.
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