Peter Rabbit

A few weeks ago I took my kids to see that Peter Rabbit movie. The movie was laugh at loud funny, at least for the kids and I. But, I couldn't help notice some of the overall communistic themes throughout the movie though....did anyone else notice this?

Right from the beginning, you've got this elderly man with a massive garden that surrounds his beautiful home. Its evident he spends a good amount of his time tending his garden, mowing the grass, marking his vegetables and fruits, weeding, the garden is amazing and the bounty it produces truly shows the fruit of his labor.

His garden is protected by a wall to keep out the local wild animals who are forever scheming for ways to get inside and steal his food. Even though the father of the rabbits was killed by the gardener and turned into rabbit stew for doing the same...the kid rabbits continue in their pursuit of breaking into his garden despite the known consequences.

When the neighbor lady see's a scuffle between the rabbits and the gardener she interjects immediately to rescue the rabbits she adores...the neighbor believes the gardener should leave his gate open and share all his food...her opinion is that he has no rights to his own land and the food he has grown. Now we do get a view of her own whimsical property with overgrown wild flowers...I noticed one primary thing...she's produced no food herself. She spends her days painting pictures that don't sell; she hasn't spent half of her day tilling her land to provide food the rabbits so desperately find desirable. Yet this woman has the gull to expect the gardener to do what she hasn't.

Anyways, the gardener croaks in the garden pursuing the rabbit that is stealing his food, the rabbits and neighbor celebrate because this capitalist gardener is the villain of the story. They go on about how it was his own fault rather than the rabbits, as they cut to scenes of the gardener stuffing his face with "unhealthy foods". The rabbits and wildlife take over not only the garden, but the gardeners beautiful home, then destroy and trash the entire property in a giant glutenous party.

A nephew receives the estate as an inheritance , cleans the place up and locks the gate as he understands the problem with the local wildlife he's just cleaned up after. And the whole saga with the neighbor lady is revised....the push for him to leave the gate open unlike the "twit" who lived there before.

This movie attempts to paint capitalism as evil and communism as righteous. I've only talked to one other person about the movie and they said the big hubbub was in the allergy community up in arms about an allergy scene...thats too bad..because communism was the major overreaching theme of this film. My two cents. its still good for some laughs but if you go see this film, talk to your kids about the depictions of the different characters....people who work hard and do well are not all evil people who deserve to die and no , you don't have a right to take the fruit of other peoples labor nor their property...that's theft, not righteousness.