The Last Mimzy

A movie review

by Rodney Davidson

Last night I watched the 2007 movie “The Last Mimzy”. It’s about a mysterious box that is sent from the future to our present time and discovered by two young children. I have forgotten who told me to watch it as I know this is not the general kind of movie (family entertainment) that attracts me. I am a thought focused senior citizen who is only just beginning to know how to express his feelings, which are frequently intense, as they became during this movie.

The acting by the children is extraordinary. They truly look like they are living in a world of make believe that is more real than real. I was strongly captivated by these precious children. I was mostly captivated by the little girl, who in my opinion steals the show, so to speak, but it was the little boy that I identified with.

Both children begin to play with toys they find in a box washed up on the shore and in doing so develop extraordinary powers. The girl’s abilities fall into the category of “manipulating energy in the material world”. The little boy’s abilities fall into the category of intellectual prowess.

I was really beginning to enjoy the movie when a scene came in which the little boy was describing his science fair project to his teachers and visitors. First know that the boy was recognized originally as a poor student and a definite under-achiever, at least by one teacher.

His science fair project, however, was over-the-top in every aspect that one could think of. The audience were transfixed in their amazement and the boy’s parents were actually frightened in their wonderment of what had happened to their children.

This is actually a minor scene in the plot of the over-all story, so its impact on me really caught me off-guard. No sooner did I “get” the depth and insight of the boy’s “knowledge” (I was a career mathematician in the field of physics) than I was overwhelmed with emotion. It was explosive and captivating and I was reeling from it. (I know I cry at family type movies which I discovered is why I do not watch them)

So, being a thought type focus, I immediately began searching for the message being carried by this “signal”. The message I “found” truly impressed me, and I believe will touch everyone reading this to some extent as being about themselves as well. This little boy, who I did not know at that point that I had identified with as much as I had, was showing that he had “connected” with his magical self, his source, his inspiration, his muse, and in seeing this I was “connected” to mine as well.

This whole episode is sending out ripples of revelation to me. This boy’s “connection” was through his imagination and was facilitated by people from the future, who, in my opinion, symbolically represent models of who I seek to become. It’s about becoming who we really are. I am pretty sure that these ideas are brand new for me and I am delighted you are all there to let me share.