Just Look Over Your Shoulder

“Two World One Family”

To me, this quote means that no matter where you come from, if you have love, you can be apart of a family.

In Chris Buck and Kevin Lima’s movie ‘Tarzan’, we are presented with the idea that as human’s we have a choice in how we live our lives. We see this in the scenes where Jane and co are telling Tarzan what he needs to do, where he belongs based on what he looks like/what other people think of him. I think this is important because people need to understand that they have a say in their own lives and they can’t let people push them around.

Tarzan shows us the idea that your cultural background doesn’t, or rather shouldn’t, matter in the long run. We are shown this throughout the movie through things such as the scenes where Kala is showing Tarzan how they are one in the same even though they don’t look alike. This makes me think about children who have been adopted into a family of a different race.

A message that can be taken from ‘Tarzan’ is people in the modern world should put more effort into seeing in other people’s perspectives. This is shown through small things like how Kerchak and Clayton refused to understand how the other species wasn’t going to harm them. This relates to the real world where race and racism are a huge problem.