Garfield – The Movie
In Garfield The Movie, the fat cat does what he has to do even though it goes against his natural inclination.
To impress Liz, a vet, Jon brings home Odie, a dog, of all things! Cats don’t like dogs and Garfield does not like Odie.
However, when Odie is dognapped, Garfield goes out of his way to get Odie back despite that he would have preferred Odie to be a permanent resident of the missing dogs list.
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Garfield The Movie explores via the antics of the fat cat what many of us have to face at some point in our lives namely “A man has to do what a man has to do”, or, in this particular case, “A cat has to do what a cat has to do”.
Garfield is a refined cat well-defined. He epitomizes what many of us may consider the ideal way of life. Sit back and relax. Lasagna, or whatever is your favorite high-cholesterol heart-damaging delicacy, available as and when you want it. Which is like 25 hours a day. An unpaid slave like Jon at your beck and call. What more can you ask for?
Well, Garfield definitely didn’t ask for Jon to bring home a dog. An odd dog with an even odder name like Odie. All as part of Jon’s plan to get into the good graces of the object of his adoration, Liz. So what is a cat to do when faced with a dog? Run away? Why not? Make the dog run away, that is.
However when some dognappers help Odie to run away, Garfield is faced with the dilemma which confronts many of us at some point or other in our lives. To do or not to do what is right even though what is right does not click right with our hearts. So Garfield ends up doing what no self-respecting cat is supposed to do, rescue a dog. Odie, no less. Of course, Garfield succeeds.
For those of us who have been faced with a similar dilemma, it didn’t always work out that way. First, we would be torn between doing what is right and doing what our hearts dictate.
Like when the object of our adoration has to go away to pursue his or her ambition in life. The right thing to do is to wish him or her all the best and help, in whatever way possible, to make his or her dream come true even if it means that the closer he or she gets to his or her dream, the further away he or she will be from us.
That would be the right thing to do. Yet, all too often, we give in to the dictates of our hearts. Instead of helping him or her achieve his or her dream, we impose our own dreams on his or her life. And it happens more often than we would like to think it does. Think about how many of us are living our parents’ dreams instead of pursuing our own. Think about how many of us bring up our own children as clones of ourselves instead of letting them grow up to become individuals with their own individualistic dreams.
Maybe we should all take a lesson from Garfield.
Garfield The Movie by Twentieth Century Fox brings to the silver screen what many fans of the fat cat have been enjoying in the popular comic strip by Jim Davis. Watching the Garfield movie reminds me of another of my favorite screen personalities, Mr Bean. In many ways, the antics of Garfield seem to be what Rowan Atkinson might do if he decides to impersonate a cat. Come to think of it, that would make a great movie. Something like “Garfield on the Bean”.
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