"The world is full of nice, ordinary little people who live in nice, ordinary little houses on the ground. But didn't you ever dream of a house up on a tree top?"
Father Robinson
Swiss Family Robinson
1960
A few reasons to pick this film today. First, I am going to Disneyland this week and just loved that tree house as a kid. Second, the Lost series finale is on and I am thinking of adventure and fantasy. Third, the love of ones family just makes me smile, and makes it so special to embrace my own.
I have to admit that I found it pretty peculiar that someone, or even an entire family could live and embrace life in a tree. I think about the many times I climbed that treehouse near New Orleans Square in Disneyland as a kid. I think about the view from the top, the hike up the tree and of course the different ways one could only live with the bare minimum.
Swiss Family Robinson were shipwrecked and stranded just like the characters in Lost. The family had to find togetherness to survive and it makes me think about how this world is reliant on one another day after to day to make things work.
Life and people are characters in many different adventures. Life can be more than the tree trunk and the heart of the home, it can be the experiences of ones own chances and ones own luck. People are characters in the many adventures of life as the branches that hang from this tree, strong and firm.
I enjoy the idea that the beach, the tree and the water isolate this existence as a fantasy. The family is strong as the base of the tree, the family learn to work together, exist and build a life surrounded with the fate of isolation and choice.
The choice to make the best of it, or to fight the reality of it.
I look forward to the fantasy land theme. The way that thought takes precedence over power, and power takes precedence over will. Adventure, or not, fantasy or hope, being shipwrecked can change ones philosophy in life that family is the key to whats unlocking the soul of a person's tree.
As I climb the steps towards the top, I look out holding my daughter knowing that I've shared a moment with her, and that I will be a part of a moment in time where her fantasy may be explored.
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